A reminder: Never get in a battle of the wits with a brilliant comedian.
Norm MacDonald absolutely shredded singer Bette Midler over a string of posts she made on Twitter.
It all started on Wednesday, when Midler — a longtime Trump hater — wrote this on Twitter: “Look, there are African American men in this shot! How much did he pay them to be ‘blackground’?”
Look, there are African American men in this shot! How much did he pay them to be “blackground”? pic.twitter.com/pTkoHTIpQl
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) July 24, 2019
MacDonald, who usually tweets about golf or gambling, decided to jump into the fray.
“Oh, Christ. Bette’s a racist, too. Fucxk,” he wrote.
Oh, Christ. Bette’s a racist, too. Fucxk. https://t.co/sRzzM2FMBo
— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) July 24, 2019
MacDonald must’ve read through some older tweets from Midler, because he responded to another one she posted on Monday.
“#LeeAnnTweeden #AlFranken accuser, in all her right wing glory. Al was forced to resign, without anything resembling due process, amid HER allegations that something ‘untoward’ happened between them. Read about it in @thenewyorker,” Midler wrote, posting a picture of Tweeden, a former model who is now a radio broadcaster, in lingerie.
#LeeAnnTweeden, #AlFrankens accuser, in all her right wing glory. Al was forced to resign, without anything resembling due process, amid HER allegations that something “untoward” happened between them. Read about it in @thenewyorker.https://t.co/FFH2VwfseG
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) July 22, 2019
MacDonald eviscerated Midler. “Bette, if you haven’t heard, #metoo has nothing to do with due process. But you putting a picture of this women in lingerie, implying she had it coming, is truly disgusting and what rape apologists have been saying forever. Shame,” he posted.
Bette, if you haven’t heard, #metoo has nothing to do with due process. But you putting a picture of this women in lingerie, implying she had it coming, is truly disgusting and what rape apologists have been saying forever. Shame. https://t.co/DP0CDq5fFW
— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) July 24, 2019
MacDonald weighed in on another tweet she posted Wednesday. “ ‘It is a worse evil to prefer survival to dishonor, And for the sake of staying alive, lose the reason for living’ ” Midler wrote.
Said the comedian: “Bette, for Christ’d sake, give your head a shake. By your ugly reasoning, the holocaust victims were ‘evil’. Jesus Christ. Think.”
Bette, for Christ’d sake, give your head a shake. By your ugly reasoning, the holocaust victims were “evil”. Jesus Christ. Think. https://t.co/VQ4UzNFaGt
— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) July 24, 2019
“Give your head a shake.” So perfect!
