{"id":1191357,"date":"2022-01-05T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191357"},"modified":"2022-01-05T16:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T21:04:34","slug":"bette-midler-commemorates-january-6-capitol-riot-the-shock-to-me-was-as-great-as-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bette-midler-commemorates-january-6-capitol-riot-the-shock-to-me-was-as-great-as-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Bette Midler Commemorates January 6 Capitol Riot: &#039;The Shock to Me Was as Great as 9\/11&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fbette-midler-commemorates-january-6-capitol-riot-the-shock-to-me-was-as-great-as-9-11%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=1191357&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Bette Midler is the latest left-wing figure to equate last year\u2019s January 6 Capitol riot to the September 11 terrorist attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people \u2014 claiming both events left her in similar states of shock.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood star, who recently had to apologize for smearing West Virginians as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/20\/bette-midler-attacks-west-virginians-as-poor-illiterate-and-strung-out-then-apologizes\/\">poor, illiterate, and strung out<\/a>,\u201d commemorated the January 6 riot in a series of social media posts Wednesday. She called it \u201cone of the most traumatic days in American history\u201d and blamed former President Donald Trump and Fox News.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTomorrow is 1\/6, one year after one of the most traumatic days in American history &amp; life, the storming of the Capitol, incited by #DonaldTrump, in his desperate attempt to cling to power,\u201d Midler wrote. \u201cThe shock to me was as great as 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">by a sociopath, so ignorant of the Constitution, so determined to win that he would destroy the government of his own country was the biggest shock of all.  How stupid are we as a nation? How could so many be fooled by this buffoon? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RupertMurdoch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RupertMurdoch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FoxNewsKnew?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FoxNewsKnew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TraitorTrump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TraitorTrump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 bettemidler (@BetteMidler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetteMidler\/status\/1478769505153265668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Equating January 6 to the 9\/11 terrorist attacks has become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/25\/huffpo-reporter-january-riot-percent-worse\/\">favorite rhetorical trick of the left and Never Trumpers<\/a>, who have sought to portray the three-hour riot as one of the worst events in American history.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>People who have made the comparison include former President George W. Bush, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), <em>Washington Post<\/em> reporter Carol Leonnig, and HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. D\u00e1te.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15383857\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Suspect-Adam-Johnson-Arrested.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15383857\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Suspect-Adam-Johnson-Arrested.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A pro-Trump protester carries the lectern of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi through the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden has used even more inflated rhetoric, calling the January 6 riot \u201cthe worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/28\/fact-check-biden-calls-capitol-riot-worst-attack-on-our-democracy-since-the-civil-war\/\">noted<\/a>,&nbsp;there have been attacks on the Capitol far more severe than January 6. A Puerto Rican terrorist group opened fire in the House of Representatives in 1954, wounding five members in what <em>USA Today<\/em>&nbsp;has called \u201cthe most severe assault in the history of the Capitol building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, Congress was back at work just hours after the January 6 riot. No member of Congress was hurt during the event.<\/p>\n<p>Bette Midler was recently feted at the annual Kennedy Center Honors. The actress-singer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/24\/cbs-kennedy-center-honors-featuring-bette-midler-sees-ratings-crash-to-new-low\/\">received a glowing tribute<\/a> from President Biden during a pre-show reception. \u201cI am such an unadulterated fan. Bette is a true American treasure,\u201d the president gushed.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bette Midler is the latest left-wing figure to equate last year\u2019s January 6 Capitol riot to the September 11 terrorist attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people \u2014 claiming both events &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"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-1191357","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\/1191357","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191357\/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=1191357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}