(Washington) “Republicans care about faith and family”: a conservative American senator tried on Sunday to defend herself against the parodies and accusations of lying that have been surging since a speech delivered Thursday from her kitchen.
The conservative party “is interested in what is said around the kitchen table,” declared Katie Britt, elected official from Alabama, on Fox News, the reference channel for the American right, justifying the decision to address Americans in this domestic setting.
Considered until then as a rising star in the Republican Party, she was responsible for delivering the traditional opposition response after the American president’s “State of the Union speech”.
Joe Biden used this annual address to Congress on Thursday to attack his Republican rival Donald Trump.
Katie Britt responded by criticizing the Democrat’s immigration policy, and by expressing her attachment to traditional values, with a painful tone and facial expressions which have since been widely parodied.
“Tonight, I’m auditioning for the role of the creepy mom,” said actress Scarlett Johansson, for example, in an imitation for the show Saturday Night Live.
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“I’m not just a senator. I am a wife, a mother, and the craziest bitch in the supermarket parking lot,” said the actress in this parody which had more than 3 million views on Sunday on the social network X.
The star, wearing a cross around her neck like the senator, also mentioned a meeting with a woman victim of human trafficking and forced prostitution, reported by Katie Britt on Thursday.
“Every little detail is true, other than the year, where it happened, and who was president at the time,” Scarlett Johansson scoffed.
On Thursday, the elected representative from Alabama spoke of a meeting with a woman “delivered to forced prostitution by the cartels at the age of 12”, giving sordid details.
“We would not accept this happening in a third world country. We are in the United States and it is time to act,” she added.
Independent journalist Jonathan Katz and American media established that this story happened in Mexico 20 years ago, and not in the United States under Joe Biden.
“It’s disgusting to want to silence a voice that tells us what sex trafficking is,” Katie Britt said Sunday on Fox News, without explicitly responding to these accusations of lying.