The Bulwark: Tim Miller: 'Katie Britt's UNCOMFORTABLE Response To The SOTU! Fails Veep Audition!'

Source:The Bulwark- Tim Miller talking about U.S. Senator Katie Miller (Republican, Alabama)

"Tim Miller reacts to Alabama Sen. Katie Britt's cringy and creepy response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address." 

From The Bulwark

"The Republican rebuttal to Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech—delivered by a woman sitting in the kitchen representing exactly where many of these men in the GOP think all women belong…

From Olivia Troye

"Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former White House communications director in Donald Trump’s administration, on Thursday described the staging of the official GOP rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address as “very, very bizarre.”

Sen. Katie Britt (Ala.), the youngest Republican woman ever elected to serve in the U.S. Senate, delivered the speech from her kitchen in Alabama." 

From The Huffington Post

"Former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin reacts to the location choice for Sen. Katie Britt's (R-AL) GOP response to Biden's State of the Union address." 

From CNN

First of all, before I might sound overly insulting, (perhaps to some) I don’t want to sound too insulting in the beginning. I mean giving the opposition response to the State of the Union speech, just after the President of the United States spoke not just to the entire Congress, but a lot of the country as well, and you are a freshman U.S. Senator, as well as member of Congress, (which is what Senator Katie Britt is) can be like performing on a concert stage, just after the main event is over and leaves, while the fans are exiting the arena. Imagine being a high school band, that takes the stage just after the Rolling Stones (or whatever band you prefer) but you are still trying to keep what’s left the audience’s attention anyway.

The SOTU opposition response, is not even a warmup act. It’s more like the closing credits and music to a film at a movie theater. Even though you are trying to represent the opposition party as far as what they think about what the President just said and the current State of the Union. As Tim Miller said, at best one of these speeches is an opportunity for an unknown politician, to get some national attention and a chance to hit on some key talking points. And during a presidential election year, a chance to tryout for the vice presidential nomination on national TV.

Now having said on that, either Senator Britt got some really, horrible advice, but she took it anyway, or she’s simply not ready for prime time. Donald Trump and the rest of the MAGA wing of what’s left of the Republican Party, is getting buried by Democrats when it comes to female voters. As much as MAGA wants people to think it’s still the 1950s, or they want to take us back there, the average American woman today works out of the home.

So what does Senator Britt do here? She gives her speech not just from her Alabama home, but from her kitchen. And as Olivia Troye said, who worked for Vice President Mike Pence in the Trump White House, the kitchen: “Representing exactly where many of these men in the GOP think all women belong…

As far as the performance itself: was I watching CNN, or Bravo TV? Perhaps a block of not just soap operas and reality TV shows, but that they were showing the tryouts for these shows and giving people and idea of what their cast members go through before they pick their cast.

This speech didn’t even look like good acting on Senator Britt’s part. More like a high school sophomore whose never even being in a community play, let alone a high school play, trying out for the very first time in a high school play. But instead of reading from a script on a piece of paper, she’s reading from a teleprompter. The speech just didn’t look real. 

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