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Bette Midler Offers To Buy Occupy Wall Street Protesters Porta-Potties

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As the Occupy Wall Street continues to grow and refuses to depart Zuccotti Park, it seems to accumulate allies from the strangest places. The newest celebrity on the Occupy Wall Street bandwagon? Bette Midler, who told Joy Behar on her program today that she was “thrilled” to see young people “saying things that have to be said,” so much so that she offered to provide portable toilets for the occupiers.

The toilet discussion came about because of protests from the lower Manhattan community that the protesters are sullying the place up. When Behar brought the issue up, Midler suggested the families “send some down because toilets are cheap, porta-potties are cheap.” So cheap, in fact, that she offered to send them down herself– and tried to get Behar to go halfsies on the donation (Behar refused to be involved in any such plot).

RELATED: Can You Look at 20 Photos Of People Holding Signs And Guess If They’re OWS Or Tea Party Protesters?

On a serious note, Midler commented that, having lived through the protests of the 1960s, which, for her generation, “was just something that you did,” it was inspiring to see young people protesting again. “The point is,” despite politics, “she argued, “that they have organized themselves and they are saying things that have to be said.” She also chided the right for being “so old school” as to call the protesters “hippies”– “fifty years have passed, get a new line than ‘dirty hippie.’”

Midler also had a few words about Texas governor Rick Perry and his recent questionable comments about President Obama’s birth certificate. “I don’t think Rick Perry is sure of where he was born!” she joked.

RELATED: Rick Perry: It’s ‘Fun’ To Poke Barack Obama About His Birth Certificate

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  • Michelle

    Please do so they will stop taking dumps on the the porches of hard-working Americans. 

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    they’d probably appreciate you giving them your riches instead Bette.

  • Pablo

    Finally! A moonbat with a good idea!

  • Anonymous

    Oh brother, this Hawaiian will stand up for her Hawaiian brethern….even though he went to Punahau…and is not of Hawaiian blood…he got in somehow….could it be?  yup, sure could be. And Frances, Perry didn’t bring up the birther issue, reporters did.  It is the left that is obsessed with the birther issue.

  • http://twitter.com/WorldDivider Mark Prior

    Are they related they look somewhat alike?

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    looks like they’ve got bigger issues going on in Zuccotti Park rather than the lack of porta-potties … http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/3-men-sought-in-zuccotti-park-death-threat/?smid=tw-nytmetro&seid=auto

  • Anonymous

    Bette Midler, who’s net worth is around 145 million, could start by paying her fair share of taxes.

    Midler and people like her use programs like the Mills Act to shave 40% off of her property taxes.

    Gotta love the limousine liberals. 

  • Anonymous

    Your mouth would offer as a perfect alternate depository considering all that emanates from within!

  • Anonymous

    You go girl! 

  • Michelle

    Actually, according to Roseann, she should be beheaded if she’s not willing to give up her millions. 

  • unmutual

    But crapping all over people who actually contribute to society perfectly reflects what OWS and liberals are all about.

    What is she going to do next? …. stop the OWS protesters from robbing and raping each other? Next she will want to get rid of the anti semites and commies.

    No fun, Bette, no fun.

  • Anonymous

    Might I suggest baby wipes, antibiotics, deodorant, and breath mints?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    By “hard-working Americans” we know you mean neggreen Republicans. We know that because we’ve seen your earlier posts. 

    It’s like how Repols (Republican politicians) always say ‘the American people’ this or that, 
    when science says otherwise, 
    or polling says otherwise, 
    or a bit of focused thought says otherwise. 

    It’s pervasive: now everyone expects pols to use the term, so even Dempols use it, so it’s been rendered meaningless. At least when only Repols used it, then we knew they were speaking to their base and ignoring the interests of all other Americans. When both sides use it, I suppose to negate and confuse that connotation, or because they think people won’t accept that they in fact are elected pols unless they say it, it turns language into meaningless word soup. 

    Like how Obama closes every speech with ‘and God bless the U.S. of A’, turning that phrase into a meaningless ritual. Maybe we’re headed towards no one being able to close a blog post without that phrase, to mean, Hey, I mean well and I’m one of you, I’m not a witch, I’m you. 

    I prefer it when pols say things that they really mean, like this here:“My record as a pro-jobs governor is clear and you don’t have to wonder where I stand.”Who said that: Rick Perry or Mitt Romney?

    Of course you think it’s Perry, because he’s supposedly running on his record and away from his poor skills at de baiting (sic), and Romney is supposedly running on the opposite tack and away from his reputation as the quintessential Ampol flip-flopper.

    But you’re wrong: that’s a quote from a speech delivered by Romney, talking about himself and his own record as a center-left governor of Massachusetts. It works just as George Orwell explained: if you do one thing, tell people you did just the opposite, and they will choose to believe whatever they wanted to believe before you ever said a thing. 

  • Michelle

    That’s a lot of words to say absolutely nothing.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    See, that’s just a hollow meme, a cheap shot without meaning. OWS types don’t want Bette’s money, they just want Wall Street to stop employing government to do its bidding so they can have some chance at a job and a future other than as a peon of Wall Street. There’s no reason to substitute what you say they are “really” saying for what they actually ARE saying, unless you have an agenda of discrediting them.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Of course this is the thread where Michelle, Pablo and the other conservatives will dwell- they love this kind of topic and are so well suited to discuss it.

    Please carry on and let your wisdom flow! You were born for this thread!

  • Rufus Danegro

    Gosh wouldn’t that be awesome? the sad part is she would enjoy it.

  • Anonymous

    Your two favorite people following your every move. :)

  • Anonymous

    Let’s just say, to put it kindly: They both could be good Jenny Craig spokeswomen.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Well that proved my point conclusively.

    Next.

  • Texan

    dufus, since rex, er phony king has had the most to say on the topic so far… well, you see where I’m going…

  • Rex the Wonder God

    See, this is pure Nativist talk. What many of us here call “racism” is actually nativism, the sort of things that was portrayed in that movie, The Gangs of New York. Pat Buchanan, for example, is not so much racist as Nativist. You find that sort of thing not just in the U.S. but all over the world, promoted out of fear and aiming to add to fear.

    To that, you’ve added the absurd notion that it’s the LEFT, whatever that is, that’s obsessed with the birther “issue”. There is no such “issue”, there is only a meme, and it stands in as a proxy for calling Obama the n-word.

    I would prefer to spell it out, rather than use ‘the n-word’, but I’ve tried in the past and it appears this is just about the only word that Mediaite won’t allow to be published; Herman Cain could say it out loud because of his skin tone, but it cannot be published on Mediaite. I suspect that’s because then there’d be a risk that people would attack Mediaite for allowing it, as somehow promoting it; but NOT publishing it gives it magic power, so the Mediaite policy actually encourages the policy of using surrogate words and dog whistles for it. Perry’s use of birtherism, indeed the entire birtherism phenomenon, is about using a dog whistle for the word ‘the n-word’ refers to. 

    And there you are: Perry admits that he’s “having fun” raising his solidarity with a group that is all about calling your president the word that ‘the n-word’ refers to, without being directly censured and silenced for using the actual word. That is the nature of dog whistle politics, and that is what Perry is doing, that he calls “fun”. So now consider Perry, the so-called and self-described ‘straight shooter’, actually being a straight shooter and using the actual word itself. Not a pretty picture.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Bipedal, female, hominid, middle-aged, post-menopausal, curvy. Ya, there can’t be any more than two people in the whole world who fit that description; either that or several tens of millions in the U.S. alone, one or the other. 

  • Texan

    Sounds like a pay per view block buster. Roseann beheading Midler.

  • Texan

    To the porta potty?

  • Rufus Danegro

    Sorry you have not received authorization from WCinWI to address me directly so the content of your post has been voided.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Just so people here understand, you’ve just linked to a story about people who are NOT OWS protesters going after people who ARE OWS protesters. This story doesn’t say anything in the least negative about OWS; at most, it shows that life continues to go on as before at the edges of the OWS marches.

  • NDanielson

    Awesome! There you go NYC. STICK HER WITH THE CLEAN UP BILL! LOL.

  • Texan

    typical progressive

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Typical male progressive.

  • NDanielson

    People like Midler and the rest of the washed up Hollyweird crowd have no INCOME. Taxes don’t bother them a bit. They have made theirs! Taxing the working man is the way that they KEEP theirs! Get it?

  • Anonymous

    Where’s Rex’s book? You’d think he’d put a collection of his Greatest Hits out.

  • Michelle

    I’m going to have to get my attorney, Gloria Allred to add a couple more names to the restraining order, I guess.

  • Anonymous

    And contraception.

  • Texan

    “My daddy like beer.”

  • Rex the Wonder God

    This is just confused: you are saying Midler SHOULD pay more in taxes, but attacking the people who are demonstrating for, among other things, reform to our tax laws so that Midler and other people who like her are rich, are REQUIRED by law to pay more in taxes. How exactly is that a meaningful criticism of her, when she is LEGALLY not paying more in taxes? It’s like you think that if we don’t complain about the state of tax laws in the U.S. for allowing rich people the legal right not to pay some mythical thing YOU call their “fair share” of taxes, then some invisible magic hand of vague morality that fits your own conception exactly will intervene and she will pay her “fair share”. The MEANS by which we define “fair share” is legal in nature. 

  • NDanielson

    She’s made hers. Taxing income of the rich, just means they won’t have income. Just another day in Hollywood.

  • Rufus Danegro

    And while you’re at it remember to swallow. Thanks!

  • Rufus Danegro

    Somebody just played the sexism card! So much for GOP non identity politics.

    PRICELESS

  • Texan

    Speaking of the “protesters” we don’t seem to be hearing much about them, lately, except for the rapes, molestations, etc. What gives? I thought it was going to be the second coming?

  • DEFENDER-90

    No they will not use baby wipes,water &soap.If they do they fear it might wash of the patina.

  • Michelle

    An #OWS protester was smacked in the face by a fellow protester after
    she refused drugs and sexual advances from the goon. Later three of his
    buddies later came to camp and threatened to kill the woman.

    Man Charged With Getting 11 Year-Old Boy Deathly Drunk in His Tent at Occupy Missoula

    Just a reminder that Barry and Nance fully support OWS and haven’t criticized any of the behavior.

  • Rufus Danegro

    This is no different from the Tea Party guy who raped a 67 year old woman. The GOP was all over that too. 

  • NDanielson

    Midler doesn’t have to earn a dime in her life for the rest of her life if she lived to be 200 years old, and she could live like a queen! While people that pay taxes? Yes, they can pay for programs that Midler deems worthy from her high perch for the rest of her life. How stupid is a wonder dog, anyway?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Post a link liar!!!!

  • Rufus Danegro

    And also lets not forget about the three tea party white power advocates who tried to assassinate Michelle Obama. The GOP fully supported that too. 

  • Anonymous

    Fact: I didn’t think any demarodent paid taxes until forced too when gaining office in DC!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Taking dumps on people and people’s property is the liberal way!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    Look, if they can take a shit on a police car, i think Michelle got a point.

  • Guyoxim

    What gave you that idea? The same source that told you Obama was “The One”? Try thinking for yourself, Texan.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Please give a few courteous flushes when
    dumping crap on mediaite!!!

  • NDanielson

    Bette is 66 years old. She could spend $4,264,705.89 dollars a year, $11,584 dollar a day, everyday, for the rest of her life until she is 100. WITHOUT earning a penny in between. Does anyone think she cares about paying higher taxes on INCOME?

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    i never said anything about who is and who is not OWS protestors. all i pointed out is that they’ve got more serious problems than the lack of porta-potties. by the way, where do these 99%’ers find the money to purchase cocaine? and wouldn’t it be going against there principles to be accepting charity from an obvious 1%er?

  • NDanielson

    Bette Midler is 66 years old. She could spend $4,264,705.89 dollars a year,
    $11,584.00 dollars a day, everyday, for the rest of her life until she
    is 100. WITHOUT earning a penny in between. Does anyone really think she
    cares about paying higher taxes on INCOME? That she does not mind
    working people paying more taxes is some good thing of Hollywood elite??? Excuse me if I don’t find that she is the one who is a greedy ignorant bitch.

  • Texan

    Liar.

  • Texan

    Your desperation is showing.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Come on Bette, that’s cheesy. Go to your evil bank, fill a suit case with cash and pass the bills out to the OWS people and let them buy what they demand.
    Better yet,  just leave the suite case at the breakfast tent and let the people take what they want…

  • Anonymous

    Verre..min and Dufus…so eloquent. That is the best come backs that you have ?
    I am starting to worry about how long OWS will be around, the story is old now. Other than clueless lib celebrities and hard core left where are the masses ? I don’t see the thousands of everyday folks gathering under the OWS banner. Guess it’s not so broad based after all. Obama needs another movement to distract the press until the campaign starts…opps with all the fund raising it’s already started.
    If Midler is really serious she can pony up the $ 3 million cost for NYPD for all their coverage. 
    Notice the spike in shooting in NYC because the police units have been pulled from higher risk areas to baby sit OWS. That story won’t appear on MSDNCor CNN, but it’s a problem.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Let’s not forget the tea partier who castrated his own father. The GOP gave him ALOT of support

  • Michelle

    Well that and people that live there actually said protesters were taking dumps on their porches.  Now what kind of a low life does that?

  • Michelle

    Oakland
    Occupiers And Police Clash As Protesters Try To Retake Camp Site, Hurl
    Paint At Riot Police, Chant “This Is Why We Call You Pigs”…

    Barry and Nance must be so proud!

  • Anonymous

    Buy yourself a new face first lady!

  • Luke_nutley

    How stupid is Bette Midler (or any of these celebs supporting the protestors) when they’re protesting the rich and these idiots like Bette act as if they’re starving artists themselves!  LMAO!

  • Rufus Danegro

    John Boehner sure is!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Huh????

  • “The” Negro

    Damn, Negro! What time is lights out in your prison cell? Shouldn’t you be texting your “baby momma’s” about all those “lil’ shorties” you created but refuse to pay for?

  • “The” Negro

    Please refrain from using black grammar and incorrect spelling.

  • “The” Negro

    Please refrain from using black grammar and incorrect spelling.

  • URBAN BLIGHT

    Howdy, Negro! The keyboard you type on was invented by white people. And… Oh yeah…

    Prisons make white society safer.

    Let me do it for you, with black spelling:    RAAAAAAAYYYYYCCIIIIIIS

  • White Liberal Suicide

    hey roofis the negro:

    Howdy, Negro! The keyboard you type on was invented by white people. And… Oh yeah…

    Prisons make white society safer.

    Let me do it for you, with black spelling:    RAAAAAAAYYYYYCCIIIIIIS

  • Kind Of Lesbian

    Her mouth is a Porta-Pottie…

  • Anonymous

    Bette Midler and Joy Behar in Outrageous Fortune 2: Verbal Diarrhea

  • http://twitter.com/charles116 charles almon

    SHe pays what the government asks and requires.
    If she sent more -they would just refund it or credit it to the following year.
    Make sense, that’s all we ask.

  • http://twitter.com/charles116 charles almon

    THere are no porches in that part of town.

  • http://twitter.com/charles116 charles almon

    Spouting the nonsense FOX talking points.
    I’m in NYC.
    No spike in crime.

  • http://twitter.com/charles116 charles almon

    There are no porches in the wall Street area.
    This is not DULUTH

  • http://twitter.com/charles116 charles almon

    Going back to the 60′s for references.
    Pathetic.

  • http://twitter.com/charles116 charles almon

    I heard there was a BEHEADING,
    And they just put up an ABORTION TENT!

  • http://twitter.com/charles116 charles almon

    I heard NAMBLA was recruiting 6 year olds for the demonstrations.
    They made them signs saying POKEMAN/POKEBOY!

  • Anonymous

    Holy crap! This whole time I thought Joy Behar was the witch from Hocus Pocus.

  • Lulu

    So the rich are using goverment regulation to avoid taxes and you want more goverment regualtion to force her to pay more taxes because your entitled to it? OWS will never win with a perception of goverment forced theft. The same mechanism the bankers currently use to gain their wealth?

  • Anonymous

    I’m still playing the guessing game.  You’re a conservative, right?

  • Anonymous

    You’re all over this board tonight.  

  • Anonymous

    Must be hard work changing your ID fall these racist comments on all the threads. 

  • Anonymous

    “Alienation and the Search for Meaning: 
     People of all ages, but particularly youth, have an inherent need to find meaning.  With spirituality shunned, people look to the secular religion of progressivism to fill the existential void.  By fighting against “The Man,” capitalism, and America, the radicals believe that they are good people who live lives of value in an otherwise nihilistic world.
    An increasing number of people feel alienated in this culture.  They are Americans, yet are told that
    America is bad.  They may have a hunger for God, and yet turn away because believers are mocked. 
    This sense of alienation from God and country compels many people to look to political movements for their raison d’etre .  Being leftists offers the lost souls a sense of belonging and identity.”

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/anatomy_of_an_occupation.html

  • Anonymous

    (R)egressive

  • Hugo Daun

    I believe he’s just your garden-variety dummy.

  • Anonymous

    nypost headline:  watch oakland cops use tear gas to repel horde after evicting ‘occupy’ campers

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/oakland_cops_campers_tear_video_6ST7CnYeEDerw6fDfUcZqI

  • Anonymous

    NYPD should look at oakland and realize part of the ‘occupy’ includes organized anarchists since in a typical protest situaiton, the mob would disperse after the first round of tear gas.  The planned continuation and the wearing of head gear to protect identity is very similar to the anarchy riots at the G-8 summits.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/10/25/2011-10-25_hundreds_of_oakland_protesters_in_support_of_occupy_wall_street_movement_clash_w.html

    As a writer noted on mediaite, when you attack cops, you lose your argument!

  • Anonymous

    so now what is this hag’s complaint against capitalism?  seems she has made tons of money in the system.

  • Yukon Jack

    Too bad he did not castrate YOUR father. Probably, just like you, he never knew who he was.

  • Bbbell2

    Someone who has no where else to go while exercising their right to peaceful demonstrations. What kind of low life does not understand that.

  • Rmilter

    Do you have a problem with Bette Middler making a lot of money? I thought you supported Capitalism?

  • Rmilter

    I guess only conservatives are allowed to be Capitalists.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if General Lord Cornwallis decided he didn’t need to pay attention to what George Washington had to say, because after all, there were no toilets at Valley Forge.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Save your money, Diva-Devil….The majority of the OWS savages arwen’t potty traines and will continue to just squat and stink where they are….and use squad cars for toilet paper….if they wipe at all.
    Some of them would just move into and reside in a Porta-pottie….while others would use them as whore houses.
    These, after all ain’t, your Daddy’s Democrats….These are Progressive Pigs.

  • Anonymous

    Nowhere in the article you provided a link for does it say the victim was trying to purchase cocaine.  The man that initially attacked the three girls “offered to sell” it to them.  Stand on any busy Manhattan street corner–someone offering to sell you drugs is’nt a rarity.  It actually has happened to me.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Why does Mediaite insist on giving these liberal losers a forum?
    I’ve seen slow news days but this is just garbage.

  • AliveStillKickin

    You must be too…or else you wouldn’t know that.
    Hypocrite

  • AliveStillKickin

    YO, BITCH!!!… Must be time consuming stalking him all over the blodg and posting stupid remarks.

  • JMcCARTHY

    The OWS trained Marxist chimps don’t know how to us indoor plumbing.  Bette Midler should take all those 60′s hippie scum offspring to her house and change their diapers if she is so concerned about them.

  • Anonymous

    “I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.”

    - Railroad baron Jay Gould, 1886, during the Great Southwest Railroad’s hiring of strikebreakers.
     

  • http://www.constantflow.net Cesar M.

    Haven’t they been trying to get porta-potties, but weren’t able to get the permits?

  • Jespeach

    Could you possibly be more full of B.S.? Do you believe every bit of nonsense being paraded as truth about the movement? I’ll bet you do. The cops do not need to be there, harassing protestors who are exercising their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. You, so willing to give up your own liberties for a false sense of security, deserve neither security nor liberty. Pathetic, really.

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