Posted on 11/03/2022 8:01:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
Hollywood star was humiliated on Wednesday after she promoted fake claims about Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake that were taken from a parody website.
The “woke” actress shared a screenshot from the “About Me” section of the satire site mocking GOP rock star Lake.
The satirical site described Lake as embracing “far-right nationalism and the forceful suppression of any opposition.”
The page hilariously went on to say Lake “strongly” opposes “democracy.”
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“Heeere’s #KariLake, running for Gov of #Arizona, spewer of Q-anon conspiracies and all around nasty nut job!” Midler tweeted to her 2.1 million followers along with a screenshot from the site that was clearly written as a joke.
“Don’t let the cute package fool you! She’s lethal!”
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Reading through the comments, many people noted that the site included a disclaimer: “This Website Is Parody & Proudly Created By Toby Morton.”
“It’s lifted from a fake/parody site,” one person wrote to Midler.
Another shared, “This is Fake. Badly done Bette.”
One Twitter follower wrote, “As awful as she is, you’re sharing a fake webpage – and doing that only blunts efforts to argue against her.”
While another tweeted, “This website is a parody account , it shows this at the bottom of the page. Do bette[r].”
“Don’t share fake info./memes,” one person wrote.
“The real stuff is bad enough on its own!”
Another shared, “This is obviously a parody web site.
“You are not doing any favors by posting this as if these were Kari Lake’s own words.”
While another person brought it back to the actress blasting Republicans for reportedly spreading misinformation, noting Midler did just that.
“Typical liberal hypocrite, spends how many tweets yelling about GOP spreading lies at election time, but then you take a screen grab of a site that even acknowledges it is parody, a screen grab to circumvent potential filters,” the person wrote.
“You’re trash, & the worst actress in HP series #fact.”
At the time of this publication, the “Beaches” star had yet to respond to the numerous tweets calling out that she was promoting a fake website, and the post was still up.
Beth “Halfwitler”?
Another liberal idiot begging for another 15 minutes.
I saw her perform at the whiskey a go go on the sunset strip in 1978. I only went cause my girlfriend wanted to go. Never could stand midler.
You can’t fix stupid. Bette Midler is too stupid to be humiliated, she doesn’t actually care that she is promoting false info.
“But it has to be true, it was on the internet and I believe it!”
How many here ever saw something by the Onion and didn’t notice it was by the Onion?
The most ridiculous thing is all these out of state liberals bemoaning Kari’s near-certain election. They don’t live here so they won’t have to “suffer” from any of her policies. IOW, it’s none of their fricking business who Arizonans elect so they need to STFU.
Bette Midler peddles fake news! Misinformation! Threat to democracy! Somebody tell the FBI so they can storm her house.
/sarc
IOW, typical democrat.
“Never believe everything you read on the internet” - Abraham Lincoln, 1861
She wasn’t “fooled.” She knows damn well it’s fake. She also knows her fans won’t know the difference, and the lies will spread.
Or the Babylon Bee!
She uh dope.
She was excellent as Janis Joplin in the Movie “Pearl.” However, in real life she is a vicious, lying, nasty, lefty.
She’s got the stupids.
The problem satirists have is that reality is already weird to begin with.
Ruthless People is most excellent.
NICELY done!.
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