Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt’s publicized response to President Biden’s State of the Union address this week has gone viral for a multitude of reasons, after the GOP went a little on the nose, even for them, and stuck Britt in a kitchen, of all places, to talk about the glories of being a Trad Wife.
If you missed that absolute train wreck when it was live, feel free to catch up on it here:
Suffice it to say, the majority of Americans were left nauseated, dizzy, and a bit dazed — kind of like a bad stomach bug — after having the displeasure of bearing witness to… Whatever in the Hell that even was.
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And as it turns out, it seems that visceral, sickened response wasn’t limited to the Left.
Folks on social media were quick to react to Britt’s “completely weird” speech, delivered from her Montgomery, Alabama kitchen. But Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zanona made an appearance on CNN’s AC360 yesterday and confirmed that it’s not just average Americans who are finding this whole debacle as “dramatic and halting” as she does. According to her, Republicans on Capitol Hill aren’t reacting much better.
“Here’s what one GOP lawmaker told me, using some rather colorful language to criticize the speech,” Zanona told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Spoiler alert: it was not a rave review.
Who thought this was a good idea?… If this is our attempt to get suburban women, good f***ing luck with that. I thought both the SOTU and the rebuttal were unwatchable. We continue to have a woman problem, just keep shooting ourselves in the face.”
Zanona went on to add that a “senior GOP aide” said Britt’s rebuttal was “difficult to watch,” but that delivering the SOTU response is “an impossible task.”
CNN then aired clips of a few Republican lawmakers praising Britt’s rebuttal, before Cooper noted that the AL senator is actually perfectly capable of delivering a normal speech, considering she did so just hours before that weird SOTU response mess.
“It’s interesting because she made a video right before she did the State of the Union in which she was talking normally,” he said. “And had she just talked normally, I don’t think there would be all this kerfuffle. It was the sort of, the drama school delivery or like the regional theater audition delivery of it that was sort of so captivatingly bizarre or bizarrely captivating.”
You can watch the CNN clip from Mediaite here.
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