Bette Midler recently made headlines for attacking the voters of West Virginia, calling them “poor, illiterate and strung out.”
“ 'What [Joe Manchin], who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible,” she tweeted earlier this week. “He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.”
"She later apologized, but that apology wasn’t good enough for Donald Trump, who vowed to “tell the real facts” about her in his forthcoming book.
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"Midler was a vocal critic of Trump during his presidency, and the two occasionally got into some public feuds. I don’t know what Trump meant by saying he’d tell “the real facts about her” in his upcoming book. I don’t doubt that Midler is like many of his Hollywood critics who once praised him before entering politics and sought him out for his financial assistance. But, for those of us anxiously awaiting to read his story of his time in the White House, we don’t need Trump’s presidential memoir to be a litany of score-settling with Hollywood liberals. We deserve something better." . . .
I've Worked with People Like Bette Midler... Yes, They Think You're Stupid
Her attack was unseemly, rude, insulting, and demeaning. Also, sadly, it was all too common within the cloistered, sheltered, and privileged ranks of the entertainment elite.
Bette Midler mocks Rush Limbaugh with KKK comparison less than a week after his death ..." '#RushLimbaugh has gone to his reward. Bet it’s hot," she wrote."...
Bette Midler Mocked For Calling West Virginians “Poor, Illiterate and Strung Out” "One of the few things Democrats are really good at is concealing their deep contempt for working-class Americans behind what independent journalist Glenn Greenwald appropriately called a “thin veneer of condescending intellectual compassion.” But every once in a while they let the masks slip, and the ugliness that is revealed as a result can sometimes end up backfiring spectacularly."
How much do you wanna bet @BetteMidler has a “Hate Has No Home Here” sign in her yard? https://t.co/YWYj2LVARc — Adele Scalia (@AdeleScalia) December 21, 2021