MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday reprimanded Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for showing extra excited a couple of second within the new “Barbie” film than Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)’s continued blocking of army personnel. promotions.
Tuberville is obstructing Senate promotions — that means the Marine Corps presently has no confirmed chief — in protest on the Pentagon’s assist to army personnel present process abortions in one other state.
However Tuberville’s colleague Cruz and different Republicans appear extra targeted on the “actually essential query” of whether or not Barbie is a communist after a faux map within the movie appeared to endorse China’s claims to elements of the South China Sea, mentioned Psaki, a former Biden White Home Press Secretary.
“No army chief will inform you they’re extra involved a couple of cartoon card in a film a couple of puppet than they’re about certified army personnel able to main their troops,” she argued.
In a statement to Varietymentioned a spokesman for Warner Bros. Movie Group that the cardboard was “not meant to make any assertion”.
“The map in Barbie Land is a childlike crayon drawing,” they defined. “The doodles depict Barbie’s fantasy journey from Barbie Land to the ‘actual world.'”