{"id":1137694,"date":"2021-12-21T13:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T18:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1137694"},"modified":"2021-12-21T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T18:05:01","slug":"roll-coal-critics-pile-on-bette-midler-after-singer-mocks-west-virginians-as-poor-illiterate-and-strung-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roll-coal-critics-pile-on-bette-midler-after-singer-mocks-west-virginians-as-poor-illiterate-and-strung-out\/","title":{"rendered":"ROLL COAL: Critics Pile on Bette Midler After Singer Mocks West Virginians as \u2018Poor, Illiterate, and Strung Out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Froll-coal-critics-pile-on-bette-midler-after-singer-mocks-west-virginians-as-poor-illiterate-and-strung-out%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1137694&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.914285714286\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Geriatric actress calls Joe Manchin and family &#8216;a criminal enterprise&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bette-Midler-736x483-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bette-Midler-scaled-e1640106035527.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bette-Midler-300x197.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bette-Midler-1024x671.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bette-Midler-768x504.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bette-Midler-1536x1007.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bette-Midler-2048x1343.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bette-Midler-1400x918.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tBette Midler (Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/josh-christenson\/\" title=\"Posts by Josh Christenson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Josh Christenson<\/a> \u2022 December 21, 2021 1:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"58.425113464448\">\n<p>Critics piled on Bette Midler on Monday after the geriatric actress and singer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetteMidler\/status\/1472955243935711236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> West Virginians &#8220;poor, illiterate, and strung out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Beaches<\/em> star, who has a history of making <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/actress-bette-midler-calls-repeat-assault-rand-paul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatening<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/trump\/bette-midler-called-out-for-circulating-fake-trump-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defamatory<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/26\/bette-midler-calls-melania-trump-illegal-alien-in-rnc-2020-tweetstorm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comments<\/a> to political opponents, made the remarks after Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) torpedoed President Joe Biden&#8217;s signature legislative package, the Build Back Better Act. Critics said Midler&#8217;s comments reveal how insulated the actress is from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1473111419621150727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hardworking Americans<\/a>&#8220;\u2014and what left-leaning celebrities &#8220;actually think&#8221; about those who live outside of New York City and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good thing about dumb liberal celebrities is that they don&#8217;t know how to mask common liberal sentiments under that thin veneer of condescending intellectual compassion,&#8221; journalist Glenn Greenwald <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1473288961032273921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;So you get brute candor like this showing how they actually think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New York, where Midler lives, has one of the lowest literacy rates in the nation. More than 22 percent of adults in the state are illiterate. About 13 percent of West Virginia&#8217;s adult population, by contrast, is illiterate.<\/p>\n<p>Midler later apologized but doubled down on her criticisms of Manchin, saying the influential West Virginia senator and &#8220;his whole family are a criminal enterprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Geriatric actress calls Joe Manchin and family &#8216;a criminal enterprise&#8217;  Bette Midler (Getty Images)  Josh Christenson \u2022 December 21, 2021 1:00 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}