Here's a daily reminder that if you're Southern, conservative, middle class and white Bette Midler probably hates you.
Singer and Academy Award-nominated actress Bette Midler issued an apology Monday for a tweet aimed at Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin that insulted West Virginians as “poor, illiterate and strung out.”
“I apologize to the good people of WVA for my last outburst,” Midler tweeted after criticizing Manchin’s announcement Sunday that he would not support President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill, effectively killing the legislation.
“What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America … is horrible,” Midler wrote in the original tweet, adding that he had “sold us out.”
“He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia,” Midler continued. “Poor, illiterate and strung out.”