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Caving to backlash, Bette Midler says she was wrong to mock Melania Trump's accent
yahoo ^ | August 26, 2020 | Christi Carras

Posted on 08/28/2020 12:08:35 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Bette Midler has walked back controversial comments she tweeted about First Lady Melania Trump during the 2020 Republican National Convention.

The stage and screen icon drew sharp criticism for calling Trump — who immigrated to the United States from Slovenia — an "illegal alien" and mocking her accent during her RNC speech.

"Well, all hell has broken loose because I said Melania 'still can't speak English' last night," Midler tweeted. "I was wrong to make fun of her accent. America is made up of people who speak with all kinds of accents, and they are all welcomed always."

In addition to inaccurately tweeting that Trump "still can't speak English," Midler knocked the first lady's "Be Best" initiative and challenged her mastery of other languages as well.

"beBest is back! A UGE bore!" Midler tweeted Tuesday. "She can speak several words in a few languages. Get that illegal alien off the stage!"

Among the many who shamed Midler for her outburst were former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and the forthcoming star of Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story," Rachel Zegler.

Amid mounting criticism, Midler followed up on her tweets Wednesday morning, claiming that her intent was to hold the Trump administration accountable for its attitude toward immigration. President Trump's stances and action on immigration have been widely condemned by many Americans as racist, xenophobic and cruel.

During Trump's presidency, authorities have separated and indefinitely detained scores of migrant families at the border. And amid the pandemic, authorities have expelled migrants — including unaccompanied minors — with no chance to seek asylum or access to COVID-19 testing in the name of "public safety."

"Just giving them a taste of their own immigrant bashing medicine," Midler wrote. "I guess they're not keen."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bettemidler; demagogicparty; demagogue; melania; midler; nitwit
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To: MarvinStinson

Dear OLD has been Bette, so you apologized for ragging on her accent, but still call her an illegal alien. She because a legal resident in 2001 and then an American Citizen in 2006, you worthless slob.


41 posted on 08/28/2020 1:08:49 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated)
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To: MarvinStinson

She actually said “I was wrong”.
Good.
That isn’t said often enough.


42 posted on 08/28/2020 1:11:19 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Her agent told her to say “I was wrong”.


43 posted on 08/28/2020 1:11:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Bette Miller is a stupid goat ... it is the season to wander off into the wilderness you old destroyer ... I will never watch you via the ‘air waves’ as a civilized air breather again.


44 posted on 08/28/2020 1:14:26 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: JoeRed

And she went flat trying to hit the note on that song. I cringe every time I hear it,


45 posted on 08/28/2020 1:16:17 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: MarvinStinson

Bette Midler’s a xenophobe and a hater. She’s apologizing because her agent told her to...

The only foreigners Midler likes are the servant type... and the ‘gardener’ type. She’s an ass.


46 posted on 08/28/2020 1:16:17 PM PDT by GOPJ (Hundreds of millions of damage and many murdered and the press only cares about one 17 year old...)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Bette Midler is a Democrat who also happens to be a bigot. She is a fan girl of Joe Biden and his intolerant running mate Kamala Harris. Does Miss Midler share Kamala Harris bigoted view about the Knights of Columbus?


47 posted on 08/28/2020 1:24:44 PM PDT by Yolanda (Jussie Smollett hoax)
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To: GOPJ
Bette Midler’s a xenophobe and a hater. She’s apologizing because her agent told her to...

Additionally, Bette Midler is a coward because she won't admit that she target Melania Trump because Melania is pretty and she, Bette, is ugly.

48 posted on 08/28/2020 1:36:16 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MarvinStinson

Midler like many others mock, deride slam, etc...someone ...its around fpr a couple of days in the news and then they give public “ apology”.

She is disgusting


49 posted on 08/28/2020 1:53:20 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns
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To: MarvinStinson

Bette, how come, at your age, you didn’t immediately know you were wrong. Aren’t you a moral paragon? Haven’t you been since the 1970s?

Hmmm, Bette, maybe you’re not really a moral paragon at all...


50 posted on 08/28/2020 1:53:45 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: sevinufnine

I never understood the appeal. She was really good in Down and Out in Beverly Hills though.

Never got the whole Cher or Meryl Streep thing either. Hollywood affirmative action for homely chicks?


51 posted on 08/28/2020 2:07:02 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: Karma_Sherab

Well what do you expect from a broad who started her career in QUEER BATH HOUSES?


52 posted on 08/28/2020 2:31:52 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: MarvinStinson

She’s ugly and should shut up.


53 posted on 08/28/2020 2:59:47 PM PDT by I want the USA back (There absolutely MUST be a debate:Trump vs gropey-joe)
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To: MarvinStinson

What a sad, bitter old thing she’s become, in her old age.

What a way to live. Jeez.


54 posted on 08/28/2020 3:24:12 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: MarvinStinson

As I recall, this wasn’t her first RACIST outburst against The First Lady. I seem to recall something similar happened several years ago.

Mark


55 posted on 08/28/2020 3:51:56 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: sevinufnine

#29 she looks like one of the women on the tv show “The View”
Joy Behar. Paid $7 million a year to hate America and any conservative.


56 posted on 08/28/2020 4:02:33 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: MarvinStinson

There’s a big difference between a legal immigrant and an illegal alien. What a non apology.


57 posted on 08/28/2020 4:48:37 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: MarvinStinson

te. “I guess they’re not keen.”

Bett’s sentence structure is lacking and what the heck does the above even mean.


58 posted on 08/28/2020 4:55:26 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: T.B. Yoits

Melania Trump is NOT PRETTY!

She is DROP DEAD ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS, she could wear a gunnysack and make it look like a royal ball gown.

Where as the WOOKIE could be dressed by the most famous designer on earth and she would still look like a knuckle dragging gorilla in a circus tent.


59 posted on 08/28/2020 6:26:21 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: slouper

Depends on how much time they put in on WEINSTEIN’s casting couch.


60 posted on 08/28/2020 6:30:46 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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