And big name news outlets got beat to it by #Johnathan#Katz, a guy with a newsletter and a TikTok account
♦️Why didn’t the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, or any other news organization have this story?
♦️Would any of them have eventually fact-checked that portion of her speech?
♦️Would they have all just let it slide?
It is a lot like what happened in 2022 as the story of then-Rep.-Elect #George#Santos (R-NY) began to unravel.
The Times reported on it, but missed it until after the election was over 💥and proceeded to get really irritated at the implication that the New York Times should do in-depth pre-election reporting on New York congressional races💥
Here is Katz's exposé on #TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@katzonearth/video/7344090454985624862
“Sex trafficking survivor slams #Britt for inaccurate story in SOTU response
“And I think [Britt] should first take into account what really happens before telling a story of that magnitude,” Karla Jacinto Romero said.”
Journalist Jonathan Katz fact checked Katie Britt’s horrific rape story from her over-the-top rebuttal.
Despite all the drama, it turns out to be a story that happened 20 years ago - and not in the U.S. but in Mexico. It’s a story that was recounted in Congressional testimony in 2015.
Katie #Britt lied when she blamed this on Joe #Biden’s border policies and when she said it happened in the U.S. #SOTU
Gonna repeat again: This is who the #GOP is. Their collective horror at this woman grimacing through her comfortable life is horror at themselves.
It came off as no worse than your average James Comer hearing, after all.
Daily Beast's Jake Lahut:
NEW on private GOP freakout brewing over Katie #Britt's #SOTU response:
“Everyone’s fucking losing it. It’s 1of our biggest disasters ever.” Being likened to Rubio water bottle moment & Bobby Jindal's infamous 2009 SOTU response.
The often inappropriate rictus grin, the catch in the voice, the mini-cleavage tease, #britt was so stilted and amateurish, I couldn’t stop watching!
She offered no policies, and dissembled about the bipartisan immigration bill she helped write, because her party’s leader demanded that more victims of trafficking suffer the tortures she so graphically described.
Ps — a moment of low comedy was when she said her colleagues “strongly support continued nationwide access to in vitro fertilization.” Wut? Which colleagues would those be — the Democratic ones?