JD Crowe: Is Katie Britt auditioning for VP, SNL or The Handmaid’s Tale?
This is an opinion cartoon.
Katie Britt’s national spotlight dystopian acting debut went just fine! (At least Trump and SNL were impressed.)
The reviews are still pouring in about Britt’s GOP rebuttal to Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech. And the results are bipartisan! Both sides of the political aisle are wondering: What the hell was that?
X, the thing ‘formerly known as Twitter’ had a big time with it: Women took it seriously:
The Volatile Mermaid @OhNoSheTwitnt X tweeted:
“Katie Britt: Sexual assault is a terrible thing. That is why you should vote for the man with several dozen sexual assault allegations who was found liable for sexual assault.”
And this tweet from Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts:
“Sen Katie Britt says sexual assault is the worst thing that can happen to a woman while encouraging Americans to vote for a convicted sexual predator.”
And this video reaction from former Trump communications director: Alyssa Farah Griffin reacts to the staging of the GOP response | Watch
But the best comes from our own AL.com Pulitzer Prize winner Kyle Whitmire:
Whitmire: Is Katie Britt for real? – al.com
Here are a few excerpts:
“Don’t adjust your television. What we saw wasn’t an AI deepfake. That was Katie Britt. That speech happened.
“But don’t call it real.
“The junior Senator from Alabama gave up being genuine a while back, and on Thursday night, her phoniness rose to the surface in full view of millions of Americans.
“There’s nothing I can quote from Britt’s speech that can convey the strangeness of it — the mismatched emotions, the smiles in the wrong places, the jaw clenched when it shouldn’t have been — just the indescribable weirdness. It was something that had to be seen, but even then, couldn’t be understood — like postmodernism, avant-garde performance art or an involuntary behavioral science experiment.
“I supposed we should focus on the substance of Britt’s speech, instead of its delivery, but that, too, seemed written by ChatGPT.
“There was a lot of talk about illegal immigration and the border. Only Britt lacks the standing anymore to speak to such things. She lost it after she helped put together a deal to fund border security (and aid for Israel and Ukraine) and then voted to kill that deal because it might hurt Donald Trump’s political odds in the fall.
“The border talk was as phony as her smile.”
Much more. Read all of Whitmire’s column here.
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix. Give him a holler @[email protected].
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