"This is the sixth time in the last year she’s told this story to blame Biden. Any claims she just made a mistake is also a lie.
In their response to the State of the Union speech, Britt and the GOP have managed to insult the status of women, exploit sex trafficking for their own gains, and lie to the public about the facts to erroneously blame Biden. This is certainly the state of the Republican Party."
When Kareen Abdul-Jabbar says that Katie Britt has told her lie about Biden and immigrants being sex-trafficked five times in the past year, he links to this news report (see link below).
Why did Republicans choose to put Alabama senator Katie Britt front and center in their SOTU response? Professor Sheri Rogers explains:
"Platform a woman. This is becoming an increasingly common and intentional tactic, especially if you can use that woman to promote the heteronormative (and white) family archetype. Place the woman in an environment that promotes traditional gender roles, even if it is a façade."
@xankarn Thank you. This looks interesting. I will add this to my to-read list. As someone born and raised in the Southern US, who still lives there, I know well how not a few white women can be actively complicit in trying to police the lives of other white women and in bolstering a patriarchy toxic to all of us, but especially to women. Angie Maxwell's book The Long Southern Strategy is very good on these points.
I think we know--other than Trump-- who has cognitive issues, and it's not Biden.👇🏼
Via Scott MacFarlane:
At news conference, Sen. Mitch #McConnell (R-KY) comment on Sen. #KatieBritt (R-AL) response to State of the Union: "We were proud of Senator Britt. Thought she did a great job. I have zero criticism of her performance. I thought it was really outstanding"
"Dobbs was payback to the tiny but motivated Republican zygote wing, but it is a disaster electorally. The GOP appears to believe they can defy the numbers by trotting out peppy, younger female MAGA shills - so far to ridiculous effect."
@wdlindsy interesting those MAGA shills can't seem to stay married. How does that sit with their sexist Christian conservative voters that don't want women working in the first place?
Parker Molloy says that it matters that mainstream media missed Katie Britt's lie and big-name news outlets got scooped by someone with a newsletter and a TikTok account.
"Where was the mainstream press on this? Why did it take an independent journalist like Katz digging into the details of this story for it to come to light that the points within were built on misrepresentations, if not outright lies?"
"Throughout [Katie Britt's] remarks, her face was frozen into a ghastly cheerleader’s rictus—an effect that became especially gothic as she doted with unseemly relish on the details of alleged immigrant rape, sex-trafficking, and other mayhem."
"(What’s more, Britt’s central immigrant horror story turned out to be a repurposed saga of cartel-driven sexual abuse in Guadalajara dating from the second George W. Bush administration, which she dishonestly and cynically presented as an American calamity, authored by the immigration policies of Joe Biden.)"
"One person truly loved Britt’s speech: Donald Trump. The GOP’s leader praised Britt as delivering a 'GREAT' speech that was in his view 'compassionate and caring.'
Trump’s accolades for Britt should not come as a surprise. After all, Britt took a page from Trump’s own playbook by baselessly stoking fears about Brown immigrants to scare voters into supporting the white supremacist GOP."
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Jay Kuo zeroes in on the "bold-faced lie" Katie Britt told in her SOTU rebuttan — "that a sex trafficking victim, who was raped repeatedly at age 12, had met with Sen. Britt and was a stark example of Biden’s failed border policies."
As he notes, Jonathan Katz, a freelance journalist and reporter with years of experience as an AP foreign correspondent in Haiti and Mexico, surfaced Britt's bold-faced lie.
David Pepper discusses the huge lie Katie Britt told in her SOTU rebuttal about Karla Jacinto Romero, a trafficking victim. Britt placed the story of what happened to her in the US under Biden, when it's clear Britt knew this happened in Mexico in 2004-8.
Its enjoyable like Clint Eastwood "interviewing an empty chair" at the Republican convention.
Incompetent and out of it, un-tethered to anything sane or normal, but it is an honest exposure of the GOP to everyone.
But thats how crazy they are. They went ahead with this, someone approved it, checked off the box, "completely normal" checked the box "not creepy" "cry while lying" - it was ok with the people making these choices in that bizarre cult.
“Because here is real danger in what Katie Britt did. And I want to take a moment and sit in the danger and talk about the fact that she weaponized someone's story, not to actually get something done, not to make someone's life better, but to score political points. It's just about the ugliest thing you can do in American politics.” — Alicia Menendez, on MSNBC’s The Weekend.
"As soon as Senator Katie Britt started speaking, I knew exactly who she is. She is so many of the pastor's wives and Sunday School teachers I knew growing up in an Evangelical church. Be sweet. Obey."
~ Jess Piper
And the reason this matters — should matter to all of us — is that these white evangelical women not only want this for themselves: they want to impose it on all the rest of women.
"Speaking in hushed tones and intermittently flashing a menacing smile, Britt—the former CEO of an Alabama corporate lobbying organization and the wife of a lobbyist—said from the comfort of her posh kitchen inside her 6,000-square-foot mansion that she understands and sympathizes with 'what real families are facing.'"
Heather Cox Richardson notes that the image of the ideal woman Republicans offered the word with Kate Britt's response to the SOTU in a kitchen is the result of years of attacks on women's equality and feminism, with the white evangelical base of the Republican party leading the way.