Catty Jonny Capehart on Britt: 'What in the Elle Woods Was That?'

Tim Graham | March 8, 2024
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After Senator Katie Britt’s Republican response, PBS turned to Jonathan Capehart to dismiss it, and he did: “After watching senator britt, I am just sitting here thinking what in the Elle Woods was that?”

That’s his catty reference to the Legally Blonde films with Reese Witherspoon as a ditzy blonde lawyer. Capehart trash-talked it next to Biden’s screamfest: “If you have to put the State of the Union up against the response, the State of the Union blows that one out of the water.” David Brooks completely disagreed: "I thought she did a good job."