Days after her liar side chat from her kitchen, Sen. Katie Britt finally “admits” she was misleading us.
Sen. Katie Britt acknowledges anecdote used to criticize Biden’s border policies didn’t happen during his presidency
Sun March 10, 2024Asked by Fox News’ Shannon Bream on Sunday whether she meant to give the impression that the story had taken place during Biden’s time in office, Britt responded: “No, Shannon,” before criticizing the president’s border policies.
“I very clearly said I spoke to a woman who told me about when she was trafficked when she was 12. So I didn’t say a teenager, I didn’t say a young woman, a grown woman. A woman, when she was trafficked, when she was 12,” Britt said.
This is worse than a nopology but at least she has come clean-ish on the idea that the story she recited in lurid detail did not happen on President Biden’s watch.
But she takes no responsibility for why many believed that her performance straight out of the Lindsey Graham School of method outrage was her reactionary reaction to President Biden’s border policy.
Here are some real people, speaking real truth from real kitchens.
Below is a link to a rebuttal of Katie’s rebuttal, from someone who knew Katie back in the day:
Veni vidi vici et vicissimKatie Britt Rebuttals Keep Coming
Jeff Tiedtrich unpacks the GOP’s real goal of broadcasting this performance in America’s living rooms.
Katie Britt is meant to be a shining example.
you see, it’s a world full of scary people out there — with pronouns — and if women watch Britt’s speech, they’ll be inspired to quit their jobs and get back in the kitchen and be a good mom to little Jimmy and Susie and stop having these crazy feminazi notions about having autonomy and choosing their destiny.
yes, I know that doesn’t make one fucking lick of sense. don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger.
it’s all about being a tradwife. seriously. check out this lethal dose of fucknuttery:
“Although she is responsible for cooking and cleaning their Virginia home, Williams doesn’t venture outside — not to the gym, to buy cleaning supplies or to meet a girlfriend for coffee — without calling her electrician husband Conner to ask for permission, nor does she leave the house after dark alone.
Asking for permission “is a respectful thing,” Estee Williams tells TODAY.com. “I am happy to do it and he’s happy to usually grant it.”
Williams is one face of the “Tradwife” (traditional wife) movement, composed largely of Christian, conservative millennial and Gen Z women who are leaning out of the workforce and into homemaking. This decision is not primarily logistical or economical; instead, it is philosophical.”
Jesus wept. I want to say that the christofascists are taking us back to the 1950s, but I don’t think that June Cleaver had to call Ward to ask permission to take the Beaver to the dentist.
it was no accident they put Katie Britt — a United States Senator and very much not a housewife — in the kitchen.
as Amanda Marcotte explains in Salon, Katie is the Christian Nationalists’ latest tradwife avatar.
“Britt’s was a message of who women should be: “Afraid, valued only for being mothers, and in the kitchen.” Republicans didn't even bother to hide the sexist nostalgia they were angling for. As the New York Times reported, talking points circulated before the speech suggested Republicans call her “America’s mom.”
Sex trafficking victim says Sen. Katie Britt telling her story during SOTU rebuttal is ‘not fair’
Published 10:26 PM EDT, Sun March 10, 2024CNN— The woman whose story Alabama Sen. Katie Britt appeared to have shared in the Republican response to the State of the Union as an example of President Joe Biden’s failed immigration policies told CNN she was trafficked before Biden’s presidency and said legislators lack empathy when using the issue of human trafficking for political purposes.“I hardly ever cooperate with politicians, because it seems to me that they only want an image. They only want a photo — and that to me is not fair,” Karla Jacinto told CNN on Sunday.[...]
Jacinto said she met the senator at an event at the southern border with other government officials and anti-human-trafficking activists, instead of one-on-one as Britt stated. She also said that she was never trafficked in the United States, as Britt appeared to suggest. She was not trafficked by Mexican drug cartels, but by a pimp who operated as part of a family that entrapped vulnerable girls to force them into prostitution, she said.
Jacinto said she was kept in captivity from 2004 to 2008, when President George W. Bush was in office and when Biden was a senator.
CNN reached out to the senator’s office seeking comment Sunday.
Sean Ross, Britt’s communications director, told The Washington Post that the senator was talking about Jacinto and disputed that Britt’s language was misleading.