Noem faces GOP heat over $220M ad that boosted 'your name recognition'

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10. I don't have a big issue with the taxpayers funding some work on messaging

But that is a slippery slope. If HHS is going out with a message to get your flu shot, I don't mind that involving a professional agency that can help the PSA be effective.

Same for seat belts, smoking, drug abuse, food safety,, wild fires and a wide swath of public service messages.

That is fundamentally different from Noem promoting herself or Trump pushing her to put out an ad saying "Biden let murderers and rapists in willy nilly, but I alone have closed the borders." If we ever get past Trump, we need a new era of laws that set some boundaries, and these laws need to apply to all the major media, not just the 3 networks that were important 60 years ago.