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Bette Midler: GOP Tried to Prevent U.S. from Winning WWII
Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood ^ | 25 Jul 2013, 9:15 PDT

Posted on 07/25/2013 5:36:38 PM PDT by drewh

by Christian Toto 25 Jul 2013, 9:15 AM PDT 241post a comment Most liberal celebrities who blast the Republican party stick to modern issues like taxation, birth control and foreign affairs. Not Bette Midler.

Sure, the Divine Miss M hits similar topics via Twitter, but she doesn't mind reaching back into history to smite the GOP from a different angle.

This week, Midler revisited World War II with a tweet claiming the GOP wanted America to lose in its fight against the Axis powers.

.@GOP treats Mr. Obama the way they treated FDR in WWII. They did everything they could to ensure an Allied loss.

There's a method to Midler's social media madness--she's trying to prop up President Barack Obama. The failing, flailing president blames everyone else for a stalled economy and a host of "phony" scandals, and she's only too eager to do the same.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: EEGator

Oh yea, good movie.


21 posted on 07/25/2013 5:48:48 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Venturer

Re why Better Midler has never been known as an intellectual:

She fell off her broom and hit her head while filming a movie and has never been the same.

Have forgotten the name of the movie but it also had Sara Jessica Parker and ? Adjami as other witches.


22 posted on 07/25/2013 5:48:58 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: drewh

And Bette Midler would have provided entertainment for the concentration camp guards.


23 posted on 07/25/2013 5:49:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: don-o
Poor Bette peaked 30-40 years ago and never came back...


24 posted on 07/25/2013 5:49:56 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Well one could easily argue that the democrats wanted us to lose the Civil War.


25 posted on 07/25/2013 5:50:10 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: drewh
Oh the libtards - they never give up.



26 posted on 07/25/2013 5:50:37 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: drewh

Joseph Kennedy wasn’t a lot of help. If we listened to no one but him, we might have lost WWII.

My guess is that the ignorant clown doesn’t know who that is.


27 posted on 07/25/2013 5:50:59 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Cheerio
Ironic that much of her so called 'career' was based on remakes of Andrews sisters songs...


28 posted on 07/25/2013 5:52:32 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Correct me if I’m wrong; wasn’t Joe Kennedy a NAZI collaborator? In fact, a lot of “American Communists” supported Hitler until he attacked the USSR.


29 posted on 07/25/2013 5:52:56 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Hocus Pocus.


30 posted on 07/25/2013 5:53:16 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: drewh
Cut her some slack. From the look of her, she attempted to entertain US troops in both World Wars Spanish-American War, didn't she? (sarc)

Many Pubbies were against US entry in WW2 (America First Committee), but once Japan attacked, they were on-side with the war effort. She should get her facts straight.

31 posted on 07/25/2013 5:53:26 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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To: Bryanw92
Please report to a disintegration chamber for recycling within 24 hours.

she is coming apart on her own

32 posted on 07/25/2013 5:53:48 PM PDT by bigheadfred (INFIDEL)
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To: drewh
Hey Bette, when no one listens to you it's best to shut up and enjoy the days you have left.
33 posted on 07/25/2013 5:54:25 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: SkyDancer

I was once at a meeting where my Congressman was talking and he got really confused and said Germany was fighting Japan and we were fighting Russia. What makes it worse, is that his family was interned during WWII. Yeah, he was a little kid, but you’d think he’d know.


34 posted on 07/25/2013 5:55:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: drewh
And it was the GOP who pulled American citizens from their homes and sent them to internment camps, right Bette?

liberalism is a disease.

35 posted on 07/25/2013 5:56:11 PM PDT by South40
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
from George Mason University...

As fiercely anti-Communist as they were anti-Semitic, Kennedy and Astor looked upon Adolf Hitler as a welcome solution to both of these"world problems" (Nancy's phrase). No member of the so-called"Cliveden Set" (the informal cabal of appeasers who met frequently at Nancy Astor's palatial home) seemed much concerned with the dilemma faced by Jews under the Reich. Astor wrote Kennedy that Hitler would have to do more than just"give a rough time" to"the killers of Christ" before she'd be in favor of launching"Armageddon to save them. The wheel of history swings round as the Lord would have it. Who are we to stand in the way of the future?" Kennedy replied that he expected the"Jew media" in the United States to become a problem, that"Jewish pundits in New York and Los Angeles" were already making noises contrived to"set a match to the fuse of the world."

During May of 1938, Kennedy engaged in extensive discussions with the new German Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Herbert von Dirksen. In the midst of these conversations (held without approval from the U.S. State Department), Kennedy advised von Dirksen that President Roosevelt was the victim of"Jewish influence" and was poorly informed as to the philosophy, ambitions and ideals of Hitler's regime. (The Nazi ambassador subsequently told his bosses that Kennedy was"Germany's best friend" in London.)

Columnists back in the states condemned Kennedy's fraternizing. Kennedy later claimed that 75% of the attacks made on him during his Ambassadorship emanated from"a number of Jewish publishers and writers. ... Some of them in their zeal did not hesitate to resort to slander and falsehood to achieve their aims." He told his eldest son, Joe Jr., that he disliked having to put up with"Jewish columnists" who criticized him with no good reason.

Like his father, Joe Jr. admired Adolf Hitler. Young Joe had come away impressed by Nazi rhetoric after traveling in Germany as a student in 1934. Writing at the time, Joe applauded Hitler's insight in realizing the German people's"need of a common enemy, someone of whom to make the goat. Someone, by whose riddance the Germans would feel they had cast out the cause of their predicament. It was excellent psychology, and it was too bad that it had to be done to the Jews. The dislike of the Jews, however, was well-founded. They were at the heads of all big business, in law etc. It is all to their credit for them to get so far, but their methods had been quite unscrupulous ... the lawyers and prominent judges were Jews, and if you had a case against a Jew, you were nearly always sure to lose it. ... As far as the brutality is concerned, it must have been necessary to use some ... ."

Brutality was in the eye of the beholder. Writing to Charles Lindbergh shortly after Kristallnacht in November of 1938, Joe Kennedy Sr. seemed more concerned about the political ramifications stemming from high-profile, riotous anti-Semitism than he was about the actual violence done to the Jews."... Isn't there some way," he asked,"to persuade [the Nazis] it is on a situation like this that the whole program of saving western civilization might hinge? It is more and more difficult for those seeking peaceful solutions to advocate any plan when the papers are filled with such horror." Clearly, Kennedy's chief concern about Kristallnacht was that it might serve to harden anti-fascist sentiment at home in the United States.

http://hnn.us/articles/697.html

36 posted on 07/25/2013 5:57:16 PM PDT by drewh
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To: Liberty Valance

“Tell that to Bob Hope or Dwight D Eisenhauer”

Patton was getting pretty fed up with the communist leanings of our government towards the end of the war also, even tho he considered himself a Democrat.


37 posted on 07/25/2013 5:57:44 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I'm so conservative I won't even wear progressive bifocals.)
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To: drewh
So stupid it's actually funny.

.@GOP treats Mr. Obama the way they treated FDR in WWII. They did everything they could to ensure an Allied loss.

38 posted on 07/25/2013 5:58:57 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
Many Pubbies were against US entry in WW2 (America First Committee), but once Japan attacked, they were on-side with the war.

I remember reading something about that. News of the Pearl Harbor attack came during some big rally and was whispered into the keynote speakers ear and he chose to keep it to himself.

News of the attack leaked in from the street and the rally was over as fast as the speaker's career.
39 posted on 07/25/2013 6:00:52 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: drewh

Big mouth, small intellect. We should all go join a CCC camp and help build the concentration camps for the Japanese Americans.... and, be sure to prevent the creation of Nisei units who wanted to fight the Axis in Europe. ALL of which was done by the FDR machine, and one Earl Warren. Part of the NWO of FDR.

Neatly leaves out the Brits in all this— and their collusion to make sure we were attacked. Republicans get the US OUT of wars, Bette old girl. It’s people like LBJ who perpetuate them. And obamaumao.


40 posted on 07/25/2013 6:02:57 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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