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Bette Midler Offers to Buy Occupy Wall St. Protesters…Porta-Potties?

Oct. 25, 2011 9:12pm Tiffany Gabbay

As the new occupants of Zuccotti Park — and more pointedly, innocent bystandards — are plagued by increasingly problematic hygiene issues, one woman, Bette Midler, is coming to the rescue…or is at least offering to buy the protesters much needed porta-potties.

Yes. “The Divine Miss M” announced to Joy Behar on Tuesday that she would purchase portable toilets for the occupiers, as she is happy to see young activists, “saying things that have to be said.”

Mediaite adds:

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).

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.

Midler then lamented the “shame” she felt over the “indignity” an American president — in this instance Barack Obama — had to suffer when he was reduced to furnishing the nation with his birth certificate.

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Hickory
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:51pm
And Bette will be hiding in one of them. I can just hear it now: Do you choose door A, B, or C? And behind door A is Barney Frank. Behind door C is Mike Bloomy and…….. behind door B is Bette. Yeaaa!

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- SHOWMESTATEGUY
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:30pm
  You are a sick man!! But it’s funny
  
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txsrowdy10
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:51pm
These two dried up prunes need to get a new line.

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- phillipwgirard
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:33pm
  prunes, lol this is getting precious by the day, but i’m with you on that thought.
  
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Magyar
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:51pm
OH Bette-go get another nose job! Still ugly, still with the ugly rhetoric!

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- Restored One
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:02pm
  And is she going to fund the money to pump the potties out every 12-24 hours as required? Supply the TP? Yeah right, nice try.
  
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- The10thAmendment
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:10pm
  Bette, you ARE no Rose, even if your lifestyle is a clone of hers.
  
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- bulletsinthegun
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:20pm
  Is nshe willing to train them how to use them, most are not house broke
  
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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:33pm
  I find it amusing when one of these fossils, that time has forgotten, tries to resurrect themselves by attaching themselves to these media filled liberal causes. Old attention whore.
  
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- vtxphantom
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:34pm
  They are better suited for disposable diapers. Just need someone to change them every so often.
  
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- Pontiac
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 11:09pm
  Why doesn’t she offer them a job?
  
  Seeing as how her net worth is around $175 million.
  
  I think that makes her one of the 1%.
  
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- LibertyGoddess
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 11:11pm
  These lefty hollyweird types remind me of Hamas. They use their young as tools and then try to make them martyrs. They admire them from afar. What’s really wacky, is that the 1% being protested against is most of Hollywood….ummmm…did I say tools?
  
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- obama-mecca-me-sick
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 11:11pm
  Buy them porta potties?? She should just go lay on the sidewalk down there and open her mouth. Problem solved!
  
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- MHP
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 11:13pm
  Stick the old hag’s head in the toilet.
  
  sniff sniff sniff.
  
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- WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges01
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 11:44pm
  “Bette Midler Offers to Buy Occupy Wall St. Protesters…Porta-Potties?”
  
  LOL!
  Now THAT will open the flood-gates for Shiite witticism (60′s radicals hippies, not muslim). :D
  
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- Bruce_Almty
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 1:59am
  Tell them all to come to ur house Bette, you have plenty of bathrooms in ur mansions.
  
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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 2:35am
  Maybe I misunderstood. I think Midler is buying the porta potties for the occupiers to live in. 2 to a potty. One on the ground floor and one in the basement.
  
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- scarlettbama
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:15am
  Soooooooooo mad w/ Bette! She never vocalized worrying about the Tea Party’s Potty Problem. Our Tea Party never caused acts like ruining police cars, possiblen rape, unsanitary conditions. Bette never helped decent Tea Party! If all soooo angry, note Obama has70 pervcent Wall Streeters on his staff! WHY NOT COMPLAIN @ WHITE HOUSE?
  
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- Shiroi Raion
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:37am
  Can she buy them soap, shampoo, and tooth paste and ask they go home and take a bath once in a while too? Maybe read “The Wealth of Nations” “Atlas Shrugged” “The Federalist Papers” “The Declaration of Independence” and “The U.S. Constitution” and have someone explain it all to them as well. Maybe take a look at “The Black Book of Communism” and “The Coming Insurrection” and show them how stupid they’ve been to buy into all this Socialist/Progressive garbage.
  
  A teacher attempted to indoctrinate me. Here’s some of his Liberal cr@p:
  “There’s no such thing as good and evil.”
  “True Communism has never been successful, but America could do it if we tried.”
  “You are nothing but a proletariat, true Capitalists are the owners of the land and machines.”
  “You cannot succeed in America unless you are born into wealth or have wealthy connections.”
  “George Washington was an egomaniac.”
  “Thomas Jefferson was a racist.”
  “The 3/5 clause was put into the Constitution because the Founding Fathers were racists.”
  He showed us Michael Moore’s idiotic movie and had us read Ward Churchill’s plagiarism.
  He also showed us told us to call anyone that disagreed with us a racist because it’s impossible to prove the absence of racism; therefore you automatically win every argument. (This isn’t true. Doing this only proves to me that you’re losing the argument.)
  Too much to list…
  
  The whole class was intended to stir up hatred and was totally based
  
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- ginger3350
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:27am
  Unless these celebs have all of their money sitting in the basement of their mansions, what do they think will happen to their millions if the system collapses? What a bunch of brainless idiots. They have to be actors and pretend to be other people since they have no life. Again, another reason why I do not give my money to hollywood elitists.
  
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- NashvilleDon
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:31am
  Maygar and Restored One (I doubt it) – How bout giving some constructive criticism instead of attacking someone’s looks or good motives. As far as I can see Ms Midler is doing a helluva lot more for this country than most of the sourpusses on this board…..
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:53am
  .
  I’m sure Bette doesn’t haven’t a clue about porta-potties.
  She probably thinks they just clean themselves.
  
  Bette, “she’s #1 in the #2 business.”
  
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- ACLUHater
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:54am
  Her and Joy look like twins. Two-dopes-of-a-kind.
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:55am
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  Hey, Bette. Give Cheryl Crowe a call.
  She can supply the toilet paper.
  One roll should last a year, right?
  
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- Ruler4You
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:31am
  How far “out of touch” are the ‘elite’? Buy porta potties? It must be a truly fine life.
  
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- HKS
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 12:02pm
  Another one for the black list. Keep them coming, so we know who is who for later.
  
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- cosette
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 5:24pm
  Hey Midler the most foul porta- potty is YOUR pie hole! Why don’t you shut it?
  
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- fightingforfreedom
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 5:45pm
  Bette honey I will never watch another movie or listen to any music you have produced……just like Fonda a traitor to this country.
  
  of anyone “class” that should understand what the hell is going on is your class where would you be without money Bette????? not here thats for sure…….go away
  
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- jimster
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:35pm
  Restored One
  They do not need TP they have shirt tails.
  
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dmforman
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:50pm
Thank you celebrities for speaking in favor of Occupy Wall Street or whatever Street. I now know who my hard earned money will no longer be supporting. I appreciate you showing your true colors.

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- vehoae
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:53pm
  Kudo’s!
  
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- I.Gaspar
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:05pm
  dmforman:
  excellent point. I hope we are all taking names. Most are predictable, but some are less obvious. As time goes by they rise to the surface…like a floater.
  
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- phillipwgirard
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:20pm
  turds float
  
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- hifi74
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 11:08pm
  I just don’t get how these idiot celebs can honestly and with a straight face try to tear down the very thing that allowed them to become what they have become. Unless their goal is to make sure that no one else is able to achieve the same status that they have out of some vain sense of grandeur??? At least I know who NOT to waste my money on, as the list grows and grows.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 11:31pm
  So what is that in their terms, a brain transplant?
  
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- pamela kay
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 1:20am
  If we stop buying their c/d’s and going to their movies maybe they will get the hint. I won’t even watch the programs they star in on tv.
  
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Netsurfer2
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:49pm
I think she meant a coin operated version, nothing is for free and she stands to make a bit of change!

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The-Monk
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:42pm
Good. This way they will have public housing when the rain, snow and cold come their way. Until then… they can use them to hide their sex acts.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:50pm
  Hey Bette, you could set up Internet cameras in those porta-potties and make a bunch of money as the other OWS protesters log on to watch from their expensive “capitalist” laptops and cell phones.
  
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Slayer
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:42pm
Because if there is anyone who understands the plight of the poor, it’s Bette Midler. Ironically, will the OWS people take the money of a filthy rich Hollywood Leftists with various investments in banks and more than likely even more investments in military-related companies?

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- Cold War Vet
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 1:19am
  “Because if there is anyone who understands the plight of the poor, it’s Bette Midler.”
  
  I like it!
  
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- Whatsizface
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:17am
  That’s Bette Midler? I thought that was Joy Behar on a good day.
  
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LibsAndCopKillersALoveStory
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:41pm
The mayor will never allow it.

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I.Gaspar
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:41pm
I thought Bette Midler died years ago in a nursing home…she must be close to 80 now.

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- vehoae
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:02pm
  Shame on you I.GASPAR !
  
  vehoae
  Child of God
  A Constitutional Conservative and registered Independent
  
  oh yes …. and I’m the same age as Bette Midler. You might want to read Matthew 5:37.
  
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- Californiasodbuster
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 11:34pm
  I thought Bette Midler was Joy Behar, i cant tell one skank from another anymore.
  
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- Therightsofbilly
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 1:14am
  They do look quite similar, don’t they?
  
  They must be sisters.
  
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- Californiasodbuster
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 1:21am
  Yes, and their going halfsies on the brain cell count.
  
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- Therightsofbilly
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 1:56am
  Yes, but not on the calorie count.
  
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Zena
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:35pm
What a bunch of bull! Here is another idiot queen in lala land. Hollywood is unable to say anything intelligent with or with out a script to read. These are organized protest funded by Soros and his radical organizations, Obama unions and his big money commie friends. They have no respect for themselves and the only thing they have done is just a lot of yelling with no message and no solutions.

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- lovenfl3
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:47pm
  I agree Zena, I am sick and tired of all these hollywood loons. I love how Roseanne Barr thinks $100 million in personal wealth should be the limit. How much is she worth? $80 Million. I bet if she gets a $25 million dollar movie deal tomorrow, the limit would then be raised to $150 million.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_HvByUxVg
  
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welovetheUSA
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:32pm
Thats it….? Your not going to pay for their college loans and buy them a house and car….what kind of liberal are you, idiot.

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- artistskeptic
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:39pm
  I hope the idiot Bette will show- up daily to service the porta-potties she is willing to purchase. Bette servicing and overused porta-potty is such a wonderful image.
  
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Cold War Vet
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:30pm
So Joy Behar is opposed to sanitation?

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Cat
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:29pm
The temporary toilet facility logo will be, “Bette-I-Can”

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- Cold War Vet
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:30pm
  I like it!
  
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- planeboy
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:44pm
  Ok I got it…It’s…Betty Poop Port -O-Potty…
  
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- SHOWMESTATEGUY
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:49pm
  @PLANEBOY,
  
  Trademark that before it gets away. Funny.
  
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- GumRock
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 3:47pm
  Hahahah ..
  Please Pee in the Midler !
  
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Dalady
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:29pm
Another member of the peanut gallery heard from. Joyless not chipping in on crappers? Guess she loves the stink hole that city has become

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SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:28pm
Better yet Bette, just invite them to your house (houses) to use the crapper.

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- Chappy123
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:29pm
  Good one!!!! :-)
  
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babylonvi
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:25pm
Dirty Hippie still fits.

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- Greenwood
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 10:11pm
  This fits the OWS crowd perfectly
  Proverbs 30: 12 There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes but that has not been washed from its own excrement.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:25pm
Maybe she wants to save their S_H I_T!!!

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SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:25pm
Hey Bette, just send in more tax money and let your Bommy take care of the potties.

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VotersOfNY
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:24pm
Hey Bette, he’s a proven LIAR.

He said he wanted transparency in the WH. LIE!
He would let seniors making under 50k not pay taxes. LIE!
Bipartisen votes. LIE!
He’ll get rid of earmarks. LIE!
He doesn’t have lobbyists. LIE!
I Barely Know Rezko. LIE!
No Earmarks in the $787 Billion Stimulus. LIE!
Unemployment rate will be 8.5% without stimulus.. LIE!
No “boots” on the ground Libya. LIE!

Shall I go on Bette, you stupid cow? There are dozens and dozens more.

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CatB
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:23pm
Perfect .. they have $500,000 in the bank and they need someone else to buy/rent porta potties … after OVER A MONTH!

Bette .. on Joy Behar … another leftest I will never support again!

TEA!

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Eliasim
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:21pm
Oh yeah, she’s not a Communist.

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endgamer
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:21pm
She’s Jewish.. They hate Jews.. What’s the problem?

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- Chappy123
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:28pm
  That’s right. I forgot about that.
  
  She better have them delivered by a moving company as an unknown donation.
  
  No telling what they will do with those potty’s sent by a filthy rich Jewish gal.
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 2:02pm
  Maybe they will call them CAIR Cans in honor of her dear friends the Muslim radicals who are part of the OW bowel movement.
  
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grandma7
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:18pm
First thing our Tea Party did with donations was to buy porta potties BEFORE anyone arrived. What are they doing with the $300,000 that they have from donations?

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- CatB
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:28pm
  @GRANDMA7 ..
  
  It is worse than that .. they have $500,000 .. like all progressives/Marxists .. they are looking for someone else to spend their money … as they do with all things. I also have never heard that they have gotten ANY of the permits or insurance that we all know you MUST have. Only if you are TEA Party do you follow the laws.
  
  TEA!
  
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- Chappy123
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:29pm
  Drugs.
  
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- Cold War Vet
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:32pm
  They’re spending it on spreading their lies!
  
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- grandma7
  Posted on October 26, 2011 at 1:01am
  Interesting comments, in our town, from NON Tea Party supporters. They now see the difference and are shocked that media continues to compare TP and OWS. Guess there’s a silver lining to these “insanity sit ins”. (can’t call them protests – protests are civil.
  
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jhaydeng
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:16pm
C’mon Bette! Don’t get involved! Save your name!

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- paperpushermj
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:24pm
  Ill second that request.
  
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- Chappy123
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:24pm
  She just flushed it.
  
  These so called stars will someday learn to stay out of politics. They may be liked on the acting stage but once the real person comes out,…the former fans remember what’s inside and they dont forget.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:30pm
  Too late …. you are known by the company you keep and obviously she has thrown in with both Joyless .. and OWS.
  
  TEA!
  
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lukerw
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 9:13pm
Perfect… fit!

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