‘Shame on you!’ Bette Midler slammed for CALLOUS take on baby formula shortage

Let’s face it: In her waning years, Bette Midler has practically made a new career for herself posting tone-deaf, uneducated rants on Twitter, but when she took on mothers desperate to locate baby formula as the nation labors under an alarming shortage, she was promptly and unceremoniously buried.

The 76-year-old singer/actress was responding Thursday to a tweet from MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle, who stated: “The baby formula shortage reveals an amazing secret oligopoly: 3 American companies control over 90% of the market; hugely restrictive regulations (thanks to big $ lobbying) prohibit foreign formulas.”

“Name another industry/sector/product like this,” Ruhle challenged followers.

And that’s when the Divine Miss M had a bright idea.

“TRY BREASTFEEDING!” Midler tweeted. “It’s free and available on demand.”

 

Except when it isn’t, Bette, as angry Twitter users were quick to point out.

Melissa Ryan, who, according to her profile, organizes “to combat misinformation,” promptly took Midler to task.

“I spent 3+ hours a day (and night!) breastfeeding and pumping for my twins for over a year,” Ryan responded. “That’s after 3 weeks of hell getting to a place where I could make enough to feed two babies w/o supplementing.”

“I’m glad that I did it,” Ryan added, “But that s–t was not free. My time is valuable.”

Ryan then noted the “privileges” inherent in Midler’s suggestion.

“And let’s talk about the privileges that even allowed me to spend 3+ hours a day feeding my kids,” Ryan continued. “I could afford to take 3 months off; My spouse got 12 weeks of paternity leave; I could work from home and have childcare at home. None of this is free btw.”

Parents with similar experiences were quick to voice their criticism of Midler’s overly simplistic tweet.

“Fellow parent of twins here,” tweeted SBU journalism professor, Sree Sreenivasan. “Most twin mothers are in [a] similar situation. Shame on you, Bette.”

“Bette, respectfully, this is a very bad take,” said author Ilyse Hogue. “I had twins. I didn’t produce enough milk for both. Without formula, I would have had to have chosen which one got to eat. To say nothing of kids that get separated from the birth mothers very young.”

“What Ilyse said,” replied another user. “Also, I had a different, but equally serious issue — I had undiagnosed Sjogren’s and a very premature infant. I couldn’t lactate at all. My baby would have starved.”

So swift was the condemnation of Bette Midler’s tweet, that she felt compelled to issue a follow-up in an attempt to smooth things over.

“People are piling on because of former tweet,” Midler acknowledged. “No shame if you can’t breastfeed, but if you can & are somehow convinced that your own milk isn’t as good as a ‘scientifically researched product,’ that’s something else again.”

“The monopoly news is news to me, tho, no lie,” she added.

Still, the hits kept coming to her original tweet, with Last Week Tonight Executive Producer Tim Carvell suggesting that Midler should maybe remember her fan base before tweeting.

“Imagine having a large gay fanbase, many of whom are raising kids in two-dad households,” he retorted, “and thinking this is a good suggestion.”

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42 thoughts on “‘Shame on you!’ Bette Midler slammed for CALLOUS take on baby formula shortage

  1. The only difference between stupidity and genius is genius is limited! Bette has no bounds, wanna guess which she is?

    1. Seriously? Do you know why mom’s don’t breast feed? There are a plethora of reason not the least of which is you didn’t birth your baby. Your baby needs specialized formulas. Your baby could never get breast feeding down. You work 10 hours a day and can’t breast feed. I mean the list is long. Bette is an idiot.

  2. Please forgive Bette, she has Joe Disease which slowly robs you of any cognitive capabilities. Like Joe she thinks that people actually listen to what she has to say.

  3. Could we please just drop the word “Divine” when referring to Bette Midler. A good substitute would be “Obnoxious.”

  4. The sheer ignorance of her statement is proof once again celebrities live in a bubble and are clueless to real life problems. Another liberal viewpoint that hates on women from the supposed party that supports women. Every day Dems prove their hatred towards females. Makes me sick.

    1. Google pay 97$ per hour my last pay check was $8500 working 1o hours a week online. My younger brother friend has been averaging 12k for months now and he works about 22 hours a week. I cant believe how easy it was once I tried it outit..
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  5. What people don’t seem to understand is that those who can’t breastfeed make up less than one-tenth of one percent of the formula customer base. I’m no fan of Bette, but for most people, her suggestion has merit.

    1. So Bill, I was one tenth of one percent when my son was born but I won’t bore you with the heartbreaking details of the week I tried and did everything the hospital lactician told me to.do causing extreme stress to my baby boy and myself. My question to you is why aren’t all the LGBTQ+ and feminists screaming (Bette included) My body my choice?!

      1. when i gave birth to my child 50 years ago. I was the only one in NYC hospital breastfeeding. I
        am EUROPEAN

        1. So because your experience 50 years ago makes you an expert? Lord help us. There are so many reason a mom can’t breast feed. Here is just one, they adopted or had a surrogate.

  6. Well done Bette, you proved once again that with a talent, that for some reason, pays ridiculous amounts of money, you can still show you are really stupid. You and Meathead need to get together. You would make a great Hollywood pair.

  7. Another POS that has proved over and over that she is an idiot and a moron! Giving her a minute of your time is a minute of your life you can’t get back!

  8. Talk about 10 miles of bad highway. Ouch. Glad I aint waking up next to that every morning. I would need to be on a bender daily to deal with that

  9. I’m not now nor have I ever been a fan of Bette Midler. I just read the article about her insensitive remarks regarding breast feeding. I am a conservative Republican voter and have no problem identifying as a male, guy, dude, Mr., sir, his, him, or anything else that leads one to understand I am not a confused person. I say that in order to show Ms. Midler that even someone who doesn’t care one bit about liberals or political correctness, knows damn well that the tweet she wrote was just plain wrong! I think it took me a second to see how that statement would be hurtful. Then I had to remember, she’s also knocking on the door of eighty years old. She’s going to have moments like this when she forgets to pretend. Forgets to cover her real way of thinking. Time for her to have a person with her at all times to hold up flash cards for her to read, instead of speaking from her thoughts.

  10. Every time you think that the Hollywood Elite can’t possibly get any more Stupid Bette proves you wrong. Of course when you make as much money for doing nothing as they do you could just go out and hire someone to nurse you baby for you so you can make it to the next big Gala.

  11. Bette I used to really like you. 53 years ago I was forced into submission after being punched in my side a couple times. I was back at WORK less than 10 days after giving birth. Thankfully I kept my beautiful baby but because I had to WORK I needed formula. I realize times have changed but please try to have a little compassion

  12. Everyone AWAKE yet? Is there ANY sector the commie regime has not ruined? Trump Won.

  13. Maybe MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle and others like her should get off of their overly-large derrières and start their own damn companies in this space!

    While at it, maybe they should get off of the same overly- large derrières and do even a modicum of research. If they did they would find that the companies factories was closed down FOR NO FREAKING REASON as the CDC has proven the death of the two babies was NOT related to the factory.

  14. ANOTHER senior citizen blue hair washed up old hack just needs more attention. Actors are dumb and overpaid. It’s that simple

  15. Some people still don’t know just how crazy Bette Midler is. They think she’s a singer.

    1. No, SHE ! Thinks she’s a singer. ,and a damn shitty one at that .
      If I woke up one morning to see that face ,I’d chew my arm off to run away.

  16. If Twitter was to suspend ANYONE’S account, it should be this bitter old hags. Another waste of skin.

  17. Ah, Bette Midler. Just came from her MENSA meeting when she came up with this thought.

  18. Midler is just another big mouth, small brain clown trying (unsuccessfully) to be relevant. She isn’t!

  19. Bette Midler is another As-hole , she is the one you would call white privilege, the Bitch needs to go.

  20. Here’s the good news about Midler: She’s an old hag and she’ll die soon.

  21. I can see Buttigieg trying to do the breast feeding thing like Peter Griffin did!

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