Her rebuttal was horrible and then we found out this shameless lying of the sex trafficking victim. I was taught in Sunday school that bearing false witness is a grave sin.
Young republican women should take the path of Liz Cheney…stand for something, stand for women, stand for democracy, but Ala. is too backwards for that.
Katie is just the kind of woman the republicans want. She's a good representative to show they have (and like) women who will perform for them. I think they were probably talked out of a scene where she would be holding a baby, standing in front to a stove, stirring a big boiling pot while telling her tales of horrific treatment of women. The subtle message would be "you need to stay home and take care of the menfolk and have more babies.
I then watched Barbie. Quite the contrast. I came of age in the 1960s and remember the times before Barbie. I think that was the message Katie was trying to convey. Women don't need to worry their pretty little heads about things like politics. Just sit quietly while men talked politics and get them a beer.
I lived on both sides of Roe, I had my first baby in the late 60s and my last 2 years after Roe. I watch my sisters go to Mexico for an abortion they couldn't get here at home. Some didn't come back so well. I watch our president call us criminals and send troops out to beat students because we didn't like sending our brothers to war. I watched my single, working mother try to buy a home and being denied credit because she was a woman. And I thought all this was normal, until it wasn't. Women protested and some laid down their lives for simple equality. So, Katie presents us with a choice, do we want to stand in front of that stove and get our man a beer? Or do we want to go out in November and vote for our equality? We have "come a long way baby" and we're not going back. Barbie was getting it right, listen to her.
Great piece on Senator Britt! Watching her reminded me of watching Michelle Duggar in the documentary “Shiny Happy People”. Like Duggar, it was bad acting, done to please an evil man, and done to hide the evil within. The SNL cold open skit captured all three of those elements.
I always believe you guys know the math, but she’s… oh, Lordy… ALABAMA!!! Please 🙏 Come to Jesus. Your senators are brain dead sycophants and make your whole state look like a wrecked car!
I shook the hand of Sen. Wayne Morse (OR-D) in 1967, at an 8th grade graduation in my two-room schoolhouse. Dad was an Eisenhower Republican, but I remember him beaming. Morse was a good man. Politics was politics.
He’d been a Republican, and I’ll make no judgment about him switching parties after he was kicked in the head by a horse. (But gawd, that sounds like an interesting story for a movie.)
thanks Reed, great column. you gave me a bit of the fly-on-the-wall story I need laying out how the response we saw came to be: it had to have come from the Trump campaign, nothing else made any sense. was Trump himself involved? normally when one of his minions doesn't succeed he's at "I never met her" in five seconds but so far he's left it at what a fantastic job she did...
what unholy group decided that since suburban women and abortion are big problems, they'd use the response to float a short-listed vp candidate as "America's mom," a younger, relatable gal who could speak to their fears and make them felt "got"? was it Britt's decision to shoot in her kitchen, as I read someplace, or part of the plan? how much input was Britt's, and how much was developed and then coached by political operatives?
and finally, does this kill her veep ambitions, at least for the moment? she's a joke, a punchline, and while as you say she the MAGAs will probably get fanatical about her bc the rest of us reacted so negatively, since that's one of their prime movers, she's no use in a general election where she just massively pissed off the exact constituency she was supposed to deliver...
Professionally, was this formatted to engage a certain demographic, Christian nationalists, Fox News addicted boomers, angry rural voters, or is the Republican Party so devoid of talent this is the product? I would love an expert opinion, it was just so other worldly and bizarre.
Look, she was involved in negotiating the border bill Trump killed by appealing to the most craven, power-hungry members of Congress the numbers of whom are unrivaled in our history. Plus she campaigned on her belief that life begins at conception. No way would she ever be a good choice for outreach to undecided voters. The creepiness of her performance is a real tell.
Her voice has been call “fundie baby voice”* by a number of women who grew up in the Evangelical / Fundamentalist church. Especially southern women have pointed this out.
*Fundamentalist baby voice. It is a way to show your submission to your husband. There was an interview of Mike Johnson’s wife, a/k/a MAGA Mike, and you can hear the same tone.
I didn't watch Senator Katie Britt's rebuttal because why ruin the moments of joy and hope--well, just an all-around happy feeling--after President Biden's speech? I choose to watch and listen to you and Tara Setmayer's discussion of the SOTU address on The Breakdown at 10:30 p.m. Later I heard about the rebuttal. What I heard and then saw wasn't good. It was such a "deer in the headlights" moment for the Senator. Whew! I am amazed she is even a senator. I wonder if she has ever been a responsible leader of anything--even a cheering squad. (Yes, you can get practice leading even if it just cheering squad. No feedback, please.) Reed your article gave me a clearer understanding of how she and others, who are totally "empty vessels", show up in places of power and jam up the works as they fill up on the snack food of self-service.
Funny. I know I've met her, but have absolutely no recollection of her aside from the fact that she was one of the bees buzzing around Shelby at an event. Southern polite as it goes but otherwise unremarkable and unmemorable (forgettable seems too cruel).
She can get re-elected in Alabama, I suppose,, but I also suppose the taint of this clunker will keep her out of the national spotlight for, um, forever.
I think Reed is also right that this cup -- the script -- was thrust upon her by the Trump campaign, especially the men. That doesn't excuse it, but it does go some was to explaining it.
I also have to mention that I think that was Harry and Louise's kitchen..
Her rebuttal was horrible and then we found out this shameless lying of the sex trafficking victim. I was taught in Sunday school that bearing false witness is a grave sin.
Just watch SNL..spot on.
Young republican women should take the path of Liz Cheney…stand for something, stand for women, stand for democracy, but Ala. is too backwards for that.
Katie is just the kind of woman the republicans want. She's a good representative to show they have (and like) women who will perform for them. I think they were probably talked out of a scene where she would be holding a baby, standing in front to a stove, stirring a big boiling pot while telling her tales of horrific treatment of women. The subtle message would be "you need to stay home and take care of the menfolk and have more babies.
I then watched Barbie. Quite the contrast. I came of age in the 1960s and remember the times before Barbie. I think that was the message Katie was trying to convey. Women don't need to worry their pretty little heads about things like politics. Just sit quietly while men talked politics and get them a beer.
I lived on both sides of Roe, I had my first baby in the late 60s and my last 2 years after Roe. I watch my sisters go to Mexico for an abortion they couldn't get here at home. Some didn't come back so well. I watch our president call us criminals and send troops out to beat students because we didn't like sending our brothers to war. I watched my single, working mother try to buy a home and being denied credit because she was a woman. And I thought all this was normal, until it wasn't. Women protested and some laid down their lives for simple equality. So, Katie presents us with a choice, do we want to stand in front of that stove and get our man a beer? Or do we want to go out in November and vote for our equality? We have "come a long way baby" and we're not going back. Barbie was getting it right, listen to her.
Great piece on Senator Britt! Watching her reminded me of watching Michelle Duggar in the documentary “Shiny Happy People”. Like Duggar, it was bad acting, done to please an evil man, and done to hide the evil within. The SNL cold open skit captured all three of those elements.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/-snl-cold-open-mocks-katie-britt-s-gop-response-to-state-of-the-union-206063173737
I always believe you guys know the math, but she’s… oh, Lordy… ALABAMA!!! Please 🙏 Come to Jesus. Your senators are brain dead sycophants and make your whole state look like a wrecked car!
I shook the hand of Sen. Wayne Morse (OR-D) in 1967, at an 8th grade graduation in my two-room schoolhouse. Dad was an Eisenhower Republican, but I remember him beaming. Morse was a good man. Politics was politics.
He’d been a Republican, and I’ll make no judgment about him switching parties after he was kicked in the head by a horse. (But gawd, that sounds like an interesting story for a movie.)
Thank you, Reed 🙏⚖️✨🇺🇸💫
It had a lot of “ransom video” energy
thanks Reed, great column. you gave me a bit of the fly-on-the-wall story I need laying out how the response we saw came to be: it had to have come from the Trump campaign, nothing else made any sense. was Trump himself involved? normally when one of his minions doesn't succeed he's at "I never met her" in five seconds but so far he's left it at what a fantastic job she did...
what unholy group decided that since suburban women and abortion are big problems, they'd use the response to float a short-listed vp candidate as "America's mom," a younger, relatable gal who could speak to their fears and make them felt "got"? was it Britt's decision to shoot in her kitchen, as I read someplace, or part of the plan? how much input was Britt's, and how much was developed and then coached by political operatives?
and finally, does this kill her veep ambitions, at least for the moment? she's a joke, a punchline, and while as you say she the MAGAs will probably get fanatical about her bc the rest of us reacted so negatively, since that's one of their prime movers, she's no use in a general election where she just massively pissed off the exact constituency she was supposed to deliver...
Professionally, was this formatted to engage a certain demographic, Christian nationalists, Fox News addicted boomers, angry rural voters, or is the Republican Party so devoid of talent this is the product? I would love an expert opinion, it was just so other worldly and bizarre.
I turned off the video when she started talking about the problems at the border!
Thanks for the insight! Reminds me a little of Nancy Mace…just not much there and willing to be directed by those who don’t respect her -even a whiff.
Look, she was involved in negotiating the border bill Trump killed by appealing to the most craven, power-hungry members of Congress the numbers of whom are unrivaled in our history. Plus she campaigned on her belief that life begins at conception. No way would she ever be a good choice for outreach to undecided voters. The creepiness of her performance is a real tell.
Her voice has been call “fundie baby voice”* by a number of women who grew up in the Evangelical / Fundamentalist church. Especially southern women have pointed this out.
*Fundamentalist baby voice. It is a way to show your submission to your husband. There was an interview of Mike Johnson’s wife, a/k/a MAGA Mike, and you can hear the same tone.
I didn't watch Senator Katie Britt's rebuttal because why ruin the moments of joy and hope--well, just an all-around happy feeling--after President Biden's speech? I choose to watch and listen to you and Tara Setmayer's discussion of the SOTU address on The Breakdown at 10:30 p.m. Later I heard about the rebuttal. What I heard and then saw wasn't good. It was such a "deer in the headlights" moment for the Senator. Whew! I am amazed she is even a senator. I wonder if she has ever been a responsible leader of anything--even a cheering squad. (Yes, you can get practice leading even if it just cheering squad. No feedback, please.) Reed your article gave me a clearer understanding of how she and others, who are totally "empty vessels", show up in places of power and jam up the works as they fill up on the snack food of self-service.
Funny. I know I've met her, but have absolutely no recollection of her aside from the fact that she was one of the bees buzzing around Shelby at an event. Southern polite as it goes but otherwise unremarkable and unmemorable (forgettable seems too cruel).
Id like to hear her explain it to her kids.
She can get re-elected in Alabama, I suppose,, but I also suppose the taint of this clunker will keep her out of the national spotlight for, um, forever.
I think Reed is also right that this cup -- the script -- was thrust upon her by the Trump campaign, especially the men. That doesn't excuse it, but it does go some was to explaining it.
I also have to mention that I think that was Harry and Louise's kitchen..