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 (via The Daily Beast). “South Park” eviscerated Noem during Season 27’s second episode, where she was depicted as a puppy-shooting, Botox-using ICE agent who arrests anyone suspected of being Hispanic. She raids a local production of “Dora the Explorer Live!” and sports oversized, plump lips.
“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.”
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“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.”
“South Park” did more than just joke about Noem’s appearance. The running bit throughout the episode is that Noem can’t stop shooting dogs who show up in her path. Noem once admitted in a book that she shot her dog, Cricket, because it was too aggressive.
While Noem had a fiery reaction to the latest “South Park” episode, Vice President JD Vance did not get so publicly riled up. The episode also depicted Vance as an annoying man-baby who gets kicked around (literally) by Donald Trump. Vance responded on X by posting: “Well, I’ve made it.”
“South Park” Season 27 is only two episodes into its run but is already shaping up to be one of the show’s most politically relevant. The premiere made national headlines for depicting Trump trying to have sex with Satan and more. The White House lashed out at the show afterwards, saying in a statement: “This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.”
Even before the second episode aired, “South Park” found itself beefing with Homeland Security after the government department used an ICE-related still from the episode to promote the actual ICE website. “South Park” trolled the White House by responding: “Wait, so we ARE relevant? #eatabagofdicks.”
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