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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 10:50 AM Nov 2019

Bette Midler ?s Laura Ingraham Statement: "Dems have a smug and snotty approach to governing" WTF??

"Dems have a smug and snotty approach to governing." WTF?? Who died and made #LauraIngraham our judge and jury? I consider the GOP approach to governing reckless, racist, arrogant and fiscally demented! The national debt is over $4 trillion! Why don't you talk about that??


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Bette Midler ?s Laura Ingraham Statement: "Dems have a smug and snotty approach to governing" WTF?? (Original Post) kpete Nov 2019 OP
The subject line makes it seem as if Midler said that, not quoting Ingraham JHB Nov 2019 #1
That's how I read it, too. nt tblue37 Nov 2019 #8
Me too, I thought her account was hacked. dewsgirl Nov 2019 #16
Me too! StarryNite Nov 2019 #21
?s for Questions? New one to me. maddiemom Nov 2019 #26
The original version didn't mention Ingraham, put the colon directly after Miller's name. JHB Nov 2019 #30
Subject line confused me. n/t rzemanfl Nov 2019 #2
just more projecting from a vile repuke ( Laura I) NRaleighLiberal Nov 2019 #3
Miss Midler Unclephil Nov 2019 #4
Miller didn't say it. lunatica Nov 2019 #43
I had to read this carefully because it looks like Midler said it The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2019 #5
Subject line needs work! CrispyQ Nov 2019 #6
Thanks for changing your title line Maeve Nov 2019 #7
not enough coffee to make everyone happy kpete Nov 2019 #12
Thank you! Maeve Nov 2019 #13
Thanks for the edit. nt tblue37 Nov 2019 #17
Ingraham promoted white supremacist struggle4progress Nov 2019 #9
You got THIS right!!!! MyOwnPeace Nov 2019 #49
Laura is projecting again. paleotn Nov 2019 #10
Precisely. dchill Nov 2019 #20
Laura Ingraham has a Ph.D. in Smug & Snotty Cirque du So-What Nov 2019 #11
Post removed Post removed Nov 2019 #44
Trump does not want to lead or govern. He wants to rule. keithbvadu2 Nov 2019 #14
I think our national debt is 20 trillion, gab13by13 Nov 2019 #15
With **Republicans** adding that much per year JHB Nov 2019 #28
A bigot and troll peddling the right's stock-in-trade crypto-racism. Anon-C Nov 2019 #18
That salute, without any doubt, is the old Heil Hitler. RVN VET71 Nov 2019 #48
Go, Bette! Nitram Nov 2019 #19
Thank you Bette! smirkymonkey Nov 2019 #22
that's rich coming from Ingraham librechik Nov 2019 #23
"Smug and snotty" Project much, Laura? GoCubsGo Nov 2019 #24
She forgot "corrupt and self serving" PatSeg Nov 2019 #25
And "treasonous" Fritz Walter Nov 2019 #34
So much for flag pins and patriotism and Jesus PatSeg Nov 2019 #35
You got THAT right!!!!! MyOwnPeace Nov 2019 #51
I have a feeling PatSeg Nov 2019 #52
That MAY be one segment........... MyOwnPeace Nov 2019 #53
K&R Gothmog Nov 2019 #27
She has obviously mistaken "rational and well-informed" for "smug and snotty". But you'd expect that eppur_se_muova Nov 2019 #29
It is more like she was describing herself PatSeg Nov 2019 #36
CA with a Democratic Super majority just posted a $ 7 billion surplus. grantcart Nov 2019 #31
The Devine Miss M! George II Nov 2019 #32
Smug and snotty as in intelligent and competent. mountain grammy Nov 2019 #33
Smug and snotty as in everything I do is the greatest, the best, etc. and coming up with juvenile ET Awful Nov 2019 #37
The debt They_Live Nov 2019 #38
This is very old Repub denialism on being faced uncomfortably Hortensis Nov 2019 #39
Smug and snotty? Like refusing to allow a Supreme Court nomination until the next election? Chemisse Nov 2019 #40
What makes us smug and snotty? The use of words with more than 2 syllables? Vinca Nov 2019 #41
Ingraham's brother agrees with Bette Midler Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2019 #42
oooh, Bette, have you been channelling Molly Ivins?? demigoddess Nov 2019 #45
Laura Ingraham is projecting again bucolic_frolic Nov 2019 #46
"Smug and snotty" ThoughtCriminal Nov 2019 #47
So glad you spotted this at Bette Midler's Twitter. Many peeps who aren't nimble enough to find it Judi Lynn Nov 2019 #50
Smug and snotty? Aquaria Nov 2019 #54
To Steal A Bit From Maher ProfessorGAC Nov 2019 #59
Ingraham is projecting. Cha Nov 2019 #55
"smug and snotty approach to governing" pretty much describes Ingraham. Nunes. Graham ... marble falls Nov 2019 #56
Go Bet!! n/t sagesnow Nov 2019 #57
Talk about smug.... RhodeIslandOne Nov 2019 #58

JHB

(37,160 posts)
1. The subject line makes it seem as if Midler said that, not quoting Ingraham
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 10:54 AM
Nov 2019

Mebbe edit the first part to "Midler abt Ingraham:..."?

On Edit, for the benefit of readers coming in later: OP has addressed an issue pointed out here and the first few responses below by editing the subject line to more clearly indicate Midler was responding to Ingraham's "smug and snotty" line.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,706 posts)
5. I had to read this carefully because it looks like Midler said it
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 11:01 AM
Nov 2019

and it doesn't sound like something she would say - you might want to edit the subject line.

Also, fuck Ingraham.

Maeve

(42,282 posts)
7. Thanks for changing your title line
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 11:03 AM
Nov 2019

Last edited Sat Nov 23, 2019, 01:35 PM - Edit history (1)

It is more understandable now

Edited after title was edited

struggle4progress

(118,285 posts)
9. Ingraham promoted white supremacist
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 11:06 AM
Nov 2019

By Michael Brice-Saddler
May 31, 2019 at 9:30 p.m. EDT

A photo-printing company has pulled its advertisements from Laura Ingraham’s show after the Fox News program aired a graphic featuring white supremacist and anti-Semite Paul Nehlen ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/06/01/laura-ingraham-promoted-white-supremacist-her-show-least-one-advertiser-is-pulling-out/

I really don't care what she says about dems: what scares me is that she's using mass media to boost nazi ideas

MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)
49. You got THIS right!!!!
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 05:20 PM
Nov 2019

"I really don't care what she says about dems: what scares me is that she's using mass media to boost nazi ideas"

Cirque du So-What

(25,939 posts)
11. Laura Ingraham has a Ph.D. in Smug & Snotty
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 11:13 AM
Nov 2019

yet she doesn't use the words correctly when applying them to others.

Response to Cirque du So-What (Reply #11)

gab13by13

(21,348 posts)
15. I think our national debt is 20 trillion,
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 11:25 AM
Nov 2019

with Trump adding 1 trillion per year. No way a Democratic president would be allowed to carry 1 trillion dollar deficits.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
28. With **Republicans** adding that much per year
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 12:27 PM
Nov 2019

They're the ones who wrote and passed that untax bill.

Never focus on Don so much it lets them off the hook.

Anon-C

(3,430 posts)
18. A bigot and troll peddling the right's stock-in-trade crypto-racism.
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 11:46 AM
Nov 2019

Last edited Sat Nov 23, 2019, 06:03 PM - Edit history (1)

RVN VET71

(2,690 posts)
48. That salute, without any doubt, is the old Heil Hitler.
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 04:58 PM
Nov 2019

If she was on stage at Nuremberg, all blonde and blue eyed, young Goodman Hitler would have been very appreciative of that salute.

GoCubsGo

(32,084 posts)
24. "Smug and snotty" Project much, Laura?
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 12:18 PM
Nov 2019

I still cannot believe that Keith Olbermann once dated that sack of excrement.

PatSeg

(47,462 posts)
35. So much for flag pins and patriotism and Jesus
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 01:11 PM
Nov 2019

It was all a ruse all along. I'm sure some of them believed some of the crap they said, but bottom line, they will do whatever it takes to win and hold on to power. Any means necessary!

MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)
51. You got THAT right!!!!!
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 05:27 PM
Nov 2019

Think about all of the BS they tried to throw at PRESIDENT Obama - "no flag pin" - "tan suit" - Kenyan-born - deficit spender.
SUCH B-f'n-S!!!!!!!

And I STILL wonder how many are able to grasp what has been going on.......

MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)
53. That MAY be one segment...........
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 05:35 PM
Nov 2019

of the economy that IQ45 has actually helped - and it IS a "tool" shared by both parties!

eppur_se_muova

(36,263 posts)
29. She has obviously mistaken "rational and well-informed" for "smug and snotty". But you'd expect that
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 12:30 PM
Nov 2019

from anyone in the Party Of Trump.

PatSeg

(47,462 posts)
36. It is more like she was describing herself
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 01:13 PM
Nov 2019

"Smug and snotty" sure sounds like Laura, and very mean as well.

ET Awful

(24,753 posts)
37. Smug and snotty as in everything I do is the greatest, the best, etc. and coming up with juvenile
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 01:15 PM
Nov 2019

names to call anyone that disagrees with me? Smug as in saying "when you're a star . . . . . you can do anything you want. . . "? That kind of smug and snotty?

They_Live

(3,233 posts)
38. The debt
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 01:28 PM
Nov 2019

and the deficit should brought up frequently be when interviewing Republicans who are defending tRump.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
39. This is very old Repub denialism on being faced uncomfortably
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 01:36 PM
Nov 2019

with liberal morality and principles. After all, they were the moral ones. In the past, while they were busy moving children off welfare and the people off the backs of business (before they were induced to finish abandoning the values they claimed to the tender care of their leaders), they'd need to deny that Democrats were out-moraling and out-Jesusing them.

Of course, that dogmatically weak period was succeeded by a much stronger, defensible new reality, implanted in millions of brains, that Democrats and liberalism are quite simply evil and determined to destroy all that is good and right about America.

So, many of us spent decades being naive and unrealistic to our faces and smug and snotty behind our backs. That was before we became just plain evil, of course, which makes seeing those put-downs pop up from "kinder and gentler" times rather amusing.

Ah, nostalgia...

Chemisse

(30,813 posts)
40. Smug and snotty? Like refusing to allow a Supreme Court nomination until the next election?
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 01:56 PM
Nov 2019

Or stopping all legislation from being voted on that doesn't suit the Party agenda?

Because the actions of Moscow Mitch are what I think of when I hear smug and snotty.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
42. Ingraham's brother agrees with Bette Midler
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 02:21 PM
Nov 2019




Curtis Ingraham
? @CurtisIngraham1
Replying to @BetteMidler

Wow, "smug and snotty" from my sister, the queen of snipe. Laura, clearly you prefer a TRUMPublican governance that is fraught with confessed criminality, self-dealing and corruption. Are these the qualities you are raising your kids to aspire to?! SAD!

Thank you Bette Midler!
6:08 PM - 22 Nov 2019

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
47. "Smug and snotty"
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 04:46 PM
Nov 2019

The know-nothing reaction to smart, educated people who know what the heck they are doing.

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
50. So glad you spotted this at Bette Midler's Twitter. Many peeps who aren't nimble enough to find it
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 05:25 PM
Nov 2019

would have missed it altogether.

So heart-warming to read from Bette, to be in touch with what she's thinking.

Thank you!

 

Aquaria

(1,076 posts)
54. Smug and snotty?
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 10:29 PM
Nov 2019

Says the nazi traitor who got handed a Dartmouth education while liberals like me have to make do with community college and state universities.

And I'm still better educated than that worthless, venomous termagant.

ProfessorGAC

(65,044 posts)
59. To Steal A Bit From Maher
Sun Nov 24, 2019, 10:46 AM
Nov 2019

Laura cheated her way through college. I can't prove it, but I just know it's true!

marble falls

(57,097 posts)
56. "smug and snotty approach to governing" pretty much describes Ingraham. Nunes. Graham ...
Sun Nov 24, 2019, 09:55 AM
Nov 2019

Don jr. Moscow's Mitch. Miller. the Orange Shitgibbon.....

Pretty much all of them.

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