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Why Won’t Disney+ Cancel Bette Midler?

Read the 'Hocus Pocus 2' star's history of sexist, xenophobic Twitter rants

Disney took a principled stand in erasing Gina Carano from its signature show, “The Mandalorian.”

Or so the mega-company suggested by severing ties with Carano for her “abhorrent” message comparing Nazi Germany to attacks on conservatives today.

Let’s take Disney at its word. It can’t continue doing business with someone whose social media messages betray its values.

What about Bette Midler?

The 75-year-old is about to shoot “Hocus Pocus 2” for Disney+. The project capitalizes on the 1993 cult smash starring Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker. That film followed a trio of dastardly witches brought back from the past to cause PG-rated mischief.

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Should Disney be concerned about Midler’s social media footprint? Common sense and the current woke bylaws scream, “indeed.”

Midler’s artistic talents are beyond reproach. She’s won a Tony Award for a “Hello, Dolly!” revival, two Best Actress Oscar nominations (“The Rose” and “For the Boys”) and multiple Grammy awards throughout her legendary career.

Now, let’s consider her worst Tweets in no particular order.

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In 2019 she sent this poem to Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, calling him a racist despite his marriage to Asian-American Elaine Chao, a prominent force in D.C. on her own terms.

Midler marked the death of Libertarian donor David Koch with this incendiary message.

She mocked Rush Limbaugh in this toxic Tweet.

Fat shaming? Check

Mocking people with addiction? Check

Ridiculing someone with Stage 4 cancer? Check

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Even worse?

Midler shattered the #MeToo template by assuming a woman seen being groped by future Sen. Al Franken was a liar.

Much of Midler’s rage in recent years involves President Donald Trump.

When far-left director Michael Moore noticed the president’s hairstyle change, she joked about sticking a knife in him:

“He actually looks better here! Maybe someone in his camp can gently give him a shiv. I mean, shove.”

Her GOP hate took a homophobic turn when she insinuated Sen. Linsdey Graham is gay, as if there’s something wrong with that preference, and dating openly gay Trump cabinet member Ric Grenell.

Midler got the most attention for repeated Tweets praising the man who tackled, and nearly killed, GOP Sen. Rand Paul.

“I DO NOT promote violence … but Rand Paul says the Kurds are being “ingrates” for taking their frustrations out on U.S. troops. Which is a good reminder for us all to be more grateful for the neighbor who beat the s*** out of Rand Paul”

That wasn’t her only hate-filled attack on Paul.

She spared some venom for First Lady Melania Trump, slams many would deem misogynistic or xenophobic.

She also attacked Melania Trump’s looks, suggesting she’s had plastic surgery.

Still more?

Here, she incorrectly labels Mrs. Trump an illegal alien, a phrase frowned upon by the progressive Left.

“She can speak several words in a few languages. Get that illegal alien off the stage!” Midler added.

Liberal Newsweek called Midler out for her crude insult to President Trump’s black followers.

“Look, there are African American men in this shot! How much did he pay them to be ‘blackground’?” the 73-year-old posted.

Some of the aforementioned Tweets could be considered silly, or simply crude humor run amok. The Cancel Culture rules, however, say otherwise. Those rules kicked Carano off arguably the biggest TV show in the country right now.

Why should the rules be different for Midler?

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It’s worth mentioning that Twitter, which is increasingly cracking down on Tweets that betray its “community guidelines,” has left Midler’s messages intact.

This isn’t the case of one terrible Tweet, although that was the standard that erased Roseanne Barr’s Hollywood career. Midler is a repeat offender, touching on racially-charged, homophobic and xenophobic language to smite her ideological enemies.

Does Disney find any of the above “abhorrent?” If not, why not?

UPDATE: Midler threatened unvaccinated school children with a Tweet suggesting she’d bring “Jiffy” peanut butter into the classroom to potentially trigger students with severe peanut allergies.

“If my kid can’t bring peanut butter to school then yours can’t bring the deathly plague. Vaccinate or I’m bringing the Jiffy,” she Tweeted May 9, 2021.

UPDATE: Midler trashed West Virginians as “poor, illiterate and strung out” after the state’s senator, Joe Manchin, said he wouldn’t vote for President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. Midler later apologized.

Cancel Culture warriors stood down … once again.

4 Comments

  1. Who else thinks Midler the ‘Dirty Hollyweird Witch’ could be Joy Behar’s Twin? Both Loud mouth Leftists Loons. I bet they even have the same stench. (Midler said she bathes only once a month).

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