Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) Wins Bimbo Bakery Award for Most Off-Topic SOTUS Response

HORSHAM, PA: Today the  Bimbo Bakery announced that Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) was selected as the 2015 winner of the prestigious SOTUS Response Award. On January 20, 2015 Ms. Ernst gave the GOP response to President Obama's State of the Union Speech (SOTUS). In her response (transcript here and video here), Ms. Ernst was able to subtly weave in a comment about "plastic bread bags". The Bimbo Bakery Award Committee was stunned by the originality and seamlessness of her rhetoric.

At first the Award Committee thought that the mention of "bread bags" was a subtle attempt to attract the attention of the Bimbo Bakery. But, on further investigation, the committee concluded that Ms. Ernst was not capable of such subtlety. The text of her full transcript that won the award was:

You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry.

But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.

What any of this had to do with President Obama's SOTUS is unclear but the mention of "bread bags" was unexpected, unusual and ultimately won Ms. Ernst the award.