Kristi Noem, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio show and slammed “South Park” as “so lazy” and “petty” after she became the Comedy Central series’ latest target.

“It never ends, but it’s so lazy to constantly make fun of women for how they look,” Noem told Beck about the episode, while also acknowledging she did not watch it because she was “going over budget numbers and stuff.”

“It’s always the liberals and the extremists who do that,” Noem added. “If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can’t, they just pick something petty like that.”

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    Expecting some down votes but I’m sorry I think she does have a point. Picking on her look distracted the main point.

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      It wasn’t her looks they were picking on, it was her plastic surgery. Getting plastic surgery is not your looks. And they didn’t even make fun of it, they just depicted it. This is what a standard run-of-the-mill caricature looks like, you emphasize features that stand out to a further degree. That is how every single celebrity has appeared on the show, unless they did photo cut-outs. But even their very best real-life friends are done in caricature.

      She saw it as making fun of her looks because of how she perceives herself and how her ego handles it. It is apparently a sore spot to her.

      Edit: it’s actually much more likely she is trying to redirect and discredit. If she pretends that’s what the episode was about, it’s a less defensive position. So it’s actually in effect similar to the reason they make straw man arguments to attack instead of real ones normally. They can’t refute ‘your’ real point, so they fabricate a different one that is much easier to attack and ascribe it to their opponent instead of their actual point.

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        they didn’t even make fun of it, they just depicted it.

        Terrible take. Of course they made fun of it. Her face was falling off.

        I’m here for it. Why misrepresent it?

        It’s hardly the only thing they are making fun of her for though, and that she doesn’t even address the way they depict ICE or the dog shooting speaks volumes.

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      Ehhhh, South Park punches above and below the belt. It’s like last episode, spending so much time on trump’s itry bitty penis.

      Her shooting every dog wasn’t super relevant to her policy positions or the inherent evil of ICE but damned if it wasn’t funny as hell.

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      I disagree. How one looks naturally on the outside is not indicative of what’s on the inside, however how one wants to look is. She wants to look like a plastic ghoul, and experience has shown me she is, so I think it’s fine.

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      Sure. That’s what their leader does, too. Remember the “disabled reporter dance.“ Sleepy Joe.

      Signed, Stfu

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      These people should be bullied in every way. The more fronts they hit her on the more likely to get lucky and hit something she’s REALLY sensitive about and she offs herself. Then we don’t have to deal with her shit anymore. Sticking to the issues has done nothing since Trump came on the scene, his kind revel in being on the wrong side of the issues.

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      Hit her from all angles who give a shit, and absolutely make fun of her looks because she literally paid to look like that

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      Nope.

      Rules are different with fascists, because their followers don’t give a shit about real problems.

      What hurts them the most is turning them into a joke over stupid shit. They literally need bullied to show the idiots they’re not “alpha”.

      Doesn’t really matter if bullying is ethical, it’s fucking fascists and no matter what they’re a fair target. The fact that it’s the most effective strategy for changing their supporters opinions…

      That’s just gravy