Radio host and podcaster Megyn Kelly blasted Sen. Katie Britt’s (R-AL) rebuttal to the State of the Union address, saying, “I don’t know what the F I saw.”
The freshman senator addressed the nation from her kitchen in Montgomery, Alabama, following President Joe Biden’s remarks on Thursday, drawing criticism from Kelly and others about the performative nature of her rebuttal.
“The Republicans had an opportunity here to put their best foot forward and just sound normal,” Kelly said. “That’s it. Don’t shout, say normal things, and speak to regular Americans about what’s real, and they blew it, as they do almost all the time in these State of the Union responses.”
Kelly played a few clips exemplifying Britt’s wide range of emotions, in which the senator appeared breathless, on the verge of tears, and spoke slowly to emphasize her message. During the first one, Kelly can be heard saying, “Oh, God,” over Britt.
“I agree with the people saying she looked like she was auditioning for a show on Lifetime,” Kelly said. “The drama, the fake affectation, the over-the-top portrayal of emotions I did not believe she was feeling at all, her inauthenticity, it was totally cringe, as the kids would say.”
The host and her guests lamented what they called a missed opportunity for the Republican Party to address Biden’s remarks, which they said contained a multitude of lies.
“She embarrassed herself, she embarrassed Republicans, and she embarrassed women,” Kelly said. “It was a disgrace. I was horrified by her performance, and I really think it’s going to take her years to rebound from that performance.”
Also on Friday, independent journalist Jonathan Katz made a TikTok video in which he broke down the story Britt told about a woman who told her on a trip to the southern border about being repeatedly sexually assaulted at a young age. The senator told the anecdote to highlight the southern border crisis that has featured record levels of illegal immigration during the Biden administration.
“We wouldn’t be OK with this happening in a third-world country,” Britt said. “This is the United States of America, and it’s past time we start acting like it. President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace.”
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Katz explained that the woman in question was an activist who has told her story many times and that the events she described took place between 2004 and 2008 in Mexico, neither in the United States nor during the Biden administration.
“The Biden Administration’s policies — the policies in this country that the President falsely claims are humane — have empowered the cartels and acted as a magnet to a historic level of migrants making the dangerous journey to our border,” Britt spokesman Sean Ross said in a statement. “Along that journey, children, women, and men are being subjected to gut-wrenching, heartbreaking horrors in our own backyard.”
