MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” did not react well to the Republican response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address given by Alabama Sen. Katie Britt on Thursday night. New York Times’ Mara Gay said it made her feel uncomfortable.
“Mara, I notice you did not bring plastic fruit or a portable kitchen behind you when you came here this morning,” co-host Joe Scarborough joked, referring to Britt's positioning in a kitchen for her address.
“Throughout the entire night, it seemed that, once again, Republicans were taking the wrong stance on the issues, the wrong side of the polls, and the wrong side of history,” Scarborough added.
Gay pointed out that Britt’s address made her uncomfortable, and “at the end, I kind of had to rewind to listen to what she was saying because all I could kind of hear was, ‘But the kitchen is my favorite place to be!’”
“Of course, you know, God bless. That’s fine,” Gay added. “But that should not be the future that’s predetermined for every woman in America.”
“It seems that this is what Republicans want to see from women in this country,” Gay said. “They want to take away our rights. They want to be our doctor, our priest, our pastor, our father.”
Gay rejects that future. “This is 2024. Not 1900. I don’t know what country she’s living in, Katie Britt, but the one I’m living in is one in which we still have our votes and an equal say in what happens to our bodies.”
“I think it was a really important thing to watch because it was a chilling reminder of the future that Republicans apparently see for this country,” Gay noted.
Many people on X were upset by Britt’s overly dramatic response, and The Daily Beast reports that even Republicans are unhappy about Britt’s performance.
