Everyone knows that winning the assignment of officially responding to a State of the Union speech can be a curse, not a blessing. But it depends on which party is responding.
Last year, the media ripped apart freshman Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., as a ditz. PBS analyst Jonathan Capehart made a “Legally Blonde” joke: “After watching Sen. Britt, I am just sitting here thinking what in the Elle Woods was that?” Actress Scarlett Johansson mocked her on “Saturday Night Live” as “auditioning for the part of Scary Mom.”
This year, the Democrats picked freshman Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich. NPR political analyst Domenico Montanaro gushed it was the best official rebuttal since Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., in 2007. She’s “so natural” and hits “common-sense notes”! “It can resonate”!
No one in the media will take Slotkin literally when she claims, “Michigan…
