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Bette Midler Warns Glenn Beck Could Set Off a Rwanda-Like Civil War in U.S.
Newsbusters ^ | September 30, 2009 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 09/30/2009 4:55:02 AM PDT by Rufus2007

It's just what the primetime cable news lineup needed - another hour-long program tilted toward left-of-center politics with character assassination on conservatives.

CNN Headline News debuted its "The Joy Behar Show" on Sept. 29, which included appearances by lefty comedian Jeanane Garofalo, CNN's Jack Cafferty and actress Bette Midler. Garofalo doubled down on her low regard for conservative 9/12 and tea party protesters, labeling them as racists. Cafferty went after President Barack Obama for his disregard of the carbon footprint his lobbying efforts in Copenhagen for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.

However, actress-turned-Vegas entertainer Bette Midler went straight after former CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck. She was prodded by host Joy Behar, who mentioned Beck as someone who is encouraging a breakdown in so-called "political discourse."

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To: Rufus2007
What did Midler compare Beck to? She likened the popular Fox News host to the instigators of the Rwandan civil war, which was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide where an estimated 800,000 to 1 million lost their lives.

"If you look around at the rest of the world and what this kind of behavior has done, like in Rwanda, where the demagogues got on the radio and fomented all that hate between the Tutsis and the Hutus and the devastation that happened from that, I mean, it's terrifying," Midler said.

According to Midler, that's a possibility in the United States.

When the shooting starts
Suddenly they will notice
Who has all the guns.

"I think that the people who are educated to be civil are civil," Midler continued. "That's all there is to it. And people who are not educated in any way, who are just a little on the barbaric side, what can you do? But that's the fault of the education system, I think, and the way they're brought up."

Has Beck ever said
The Left will bring Genocide?
Who is Uncivil?

101 posted on 09/30/2009 5:49:17 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If You have a Right / To the Service I provide / I must be a Slave)
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To: Rufus2007

Oh well......Guess who has all the guns and ammo?


102 posted on 09/30/2009 5:52:33 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: Rufus2007

Honestly I am surprised SEIU, ACORN, or BATF have not already set off a Rwandan style civil war.

They are certainly working towards it, as are the attempted neo-feudal policies the left is attempting to enact.


103 posted on 09/30/2009 5:53:02 AM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: marine86297

You have that right and all the AMMO TOO!


104 posted on 09/30/2009 5:55:40 AM PDT by 2001convSVT ("Only Property Owners that pay taxes should have the right to Vote")
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To: Rufus2007

The closest thing we’ve had to a Rwanda like civil war recently was in Chicago, where one group of black people used primitive weapons to attack other black people for no particular reason.

Glenn Beck talks about political philosophy, something totally different where differences can usually be resolved peacefully, or at least can be resolved before the death of an entire segment of the population.


105 posted on 09/30/2009 5:56:08 AM PDT by B.Lyle
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“Can these people possibly get any stupider ?”

Yes. A black entertainer could call for a civil war.


106 posted on 09/30/2009 5:56:10 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Rufus2007
Is Bette Midler still alive?

And who is Joy Behar?

107 posted on 09/30/2009 5:56:30 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Rufus2007
It's just what the primetime cable news lineup needed - another hour-long program tilted toward FAR-left-of-center politics with character assassination on conservatives.

More accurate.

108 posted on 09/30/2009 5:56:35 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (ZerOcare: Bureaucratic best practices equals death panels.)
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To: Rufus2007

This show is an excellent example of the total junk that now are the news networks. It’s not news, it’s entertainment. Joy Behar proved a long time ago that she doesn’t know anything about what’s going on in the World. These shows merely take shots at each other. There’s no value to them.


109 posted on 09/30/2009 5:57:12 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: Rufus2007

What happens when the money tree dies and you have 3 generations incapable of any meaningful production and no job skills?

Such an Obamanation


110 posted on 09/30/2009 5:57:34 AM PDT by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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To: Broker

And they’ve been lifted as many times as her face...Geeze..I had to stare hard to recognise her! It’s like she got a face transplant to get it to look like that! She obviously has a much better plastic surgeon than Pelosi. If I saw Midler in public now, I wouldn’t recognise her. She looks 40 years younger and with somebody elses face.


111 posted on 09/30/2009 5:59:05 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

“Mzzz Midler, if there is a Rwandan-type massacre in the US, it will be perpetrated by their cousins: ACORN and their various allies, many of whom advocate violent revolution. The victims will be the middle-class, patriotic Americans just trying to live their lives.”

I agree with the first sentence.

I disagree with the second sentence, as the instigators will get their asses kicked into extinction by their intended victims.

That is if the balloon goes up at all. I expect them to back down soon, leaving the grownups to repair the economy and feed, clothe and shelter the financially dependant revolutionaries.


112 posted on 09/30/2009 6:00:57 AM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: Travis McGee; All

“She likened the popular Fox News host to the instigators of the Rwandan civil war, which was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide where an estimated 800,000 to 1 million lost their lives. “If you look around at the rest of the world and what this kind of behavior has done, like in Rwanda, where the demagogues got on the radio....”

Let’s see. Was it conservative christians who caused that war?
Nah, they are missionaries. Must have been the Amish again.
Bette Midler.....the Alexis deTocqueville of Beverly Hills has spoken.


113 posted on 09/30/2009 6:02:20 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Rufus2007

“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government you have liberty.” Thomas Jefferson

“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to preserve or obtain their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.” Thomas Jefferson

“Those who beat the guns in to plows will plow for those who don’t.” Thomas Jefferson


114 posted on 09/30/2009 6:03:34 AM PDT by stockpirate ("I came NOT to bring peace but a sword." - Jesus Christ)
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To: mkjessup

LMAO!


115 posted on 09/30/2009 6:07:07 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Rufus2007

CNN?


116 posted on 09/30/2009 6:10:38 AM PDT by jetson
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To: Rufus2007

This has been sees her Pinko Messiah self destructing so they need to blame the ones that tell the truth. As for Joy, I don’t think there is a more despicable woman on television. How she keeps her job is beyond me.


117 posted on 09/30/2009 6:11:00 AM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: cripplecreek

I am looking forward to Ms, Midler’s learned commentary on the Pelopenesian War, Livy’s History of Rome and the latest developments in string theory.


118 posted on 09/30/2009 6:12:00 AM PDT by Noumenon (Work that AQT - turn ammunition into skill. No tyrant can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever.)
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To: Psalm 144; All

“Honestly I am surprised SEIU, ACORN, or BATF have not already set off a Rwandan style civil war.”

SEIU/ACORN are Obama’s trump card. If he can’t get his communist policies through the front door, he will start the war, and declare himself “Leader”


119 posted on 09/30/2009 6:12:01 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Travis McGee

I think the idea that Americans oppose their communist agenda and might actually stop them, is scaring the sh*t out of them. Good, I want them to be afraid. They need to slow down, step back and take a look at wtf is going on.


120 posted on 09/30/2009 6:13:48 AM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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