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A top White House adviser gently mocked on Tuesday night the Tea Party response to the State of the Union delivered by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).

White House senior adviser David Axelrod joked in a television appearance later in the evening, after Bachmann had delivered her rejoinder to President Obama's speech, about the odd camera-work in much of the Tea Party address.

"Am I looking at the right camera?" Axelrod joked during an appearance on MSNBC, referencing Bachmann's video.

The Minnesota Congresswoman delivered her speech on Tuesday -- which followed Rep. Paul Ryan's (Wis.) delivery of the official Republican response -- in which she voiced tough criticisms of Obama and Democrats in Congress.

But during her speech that was aired on television, Bachmann appeared to look into the wrong camera, delivering her speech instead while looking slightly to her right. (Bachmann was looking at a second camera that belonged to the Tea Party Express, which webcast her remarks, and not the television camera that also captured her remarks.)

Democrats and the White House seemed to revel in recent days in the two different Republican responses to Obama's address.