Melissa Manchester honors Bette Midler | 44th Kennedy Center Honors

[@johnedwardjones999]

First time I saw Bette was at The Baths. I lived on the other side of Central and it was a 20 minute walk to this great show that cost $10-$20. I adore The Divine Miss M. Many great contributions beyond the music and acting. A few years after The Baths, in LA, it cost $110 for a memorable NYE Performance at the Dorthy Chandler. Then months later an equally inspiring concert with Melissa at Universal Amphitheater. Two outstanding talented women. Thank you!

[@luciusjohnson384]

Ms Manchester has a great voice.

[@SuperC888]

Great speech - funny & sweet. I wish she would’ve sung.

[@johnflynn9619]

Melissa is Magnificent. Bette is Exceptional. I Love Both Women.

[@AikawaMartialArts]

Bette will be canceled soon for her comments on Twitter. I never thought she was the type to blatantly discriminate like that.

[@johnflynn9619]

@@AikawaMartialArts What was she canceled from? She apologized for the comment. Both women are Tremendous.

[@t.lucalake8963]

I agree with you 100%

[@ains7327]

Can you bring up her West Virginia tweet please

[@BellaFirenze]

What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.

[@johnm7328]

I personally liked the tweet and am tired of dope addicted rural Appalachian people living on the government & their vote have outsized political influence.

[@ains7327]

@@johnm7328 would you say that about black people?

[@johnm7328]

@@ains7327 Since it's not true, no I wouldn't say it. WV (& KY) take significantly more in federal budget than they contribute in revenue and their politicians have an outsized influence for their teeny tiny size, and total lack of contributions to the country. These states are dying yet somehow get to dictate our national agenda.

[@ains7327]

@@johnm7328 of course because saying anything bad about white people has become 100 percent acceptable and not racist at all

[@AikawaMartialArts]

Then Bette dishonors herself discriminating on people..... Shame on you Bette. Why would you tweet something like that?

[@BellaFirenze]

Because she can, apparently.

[@BellaFirenze]

@Truth Teller She is right. "What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out."

[@frankpeter6851]

I thought she was going to say, " I'd rather sing in front of you"

[@absisfabs873]

Why too short?

[@thomas351]

if there isn't there should be an album sort of a retrospective "Bette At the Baths no "rainbow" music collection would be complete without it ...thanks for the memories Bette

[@Heyjay454]

There is video on KZbin

[@markslane5286]

BRILLIANT IDEA and I second it spiritedly!!!

[@barductube]

Hey, you people from WV, there are people from all over the world reading these comments on Bettes honors. Can't you take your personal discussions to twitter, where they belong and say something about her life work and how it has affected you? I love Bette from long ago eighties movies and bought some music from the nineties and caught up on her life and work on youtube later. The rainbow community in Munich have celebrated and impersonated her lovingly ever since the eighties and I love her Las Vegas Show. So she is part of my life and I'm glad to be her contemporary. The same with Sting or Johnny D. or Julie Andrews. She too has been accused of misbehaviour, but today this is forgotten and she is the goddess of the media (and rightly so) Whats all this about? Complaints about something Bette said from a country that only recently got rid of a person who misbehaved every single second of his life and received unbelievable accolations for it from half of the country? Be reasonable and say something nice or nothing at all, thats the way to 'World Peace' XD

[@hairdisc]

Don’t be a Karen. Free speech is always a learning tool to the open minds who listen. It doesn’t matter if it’s false or true, negative, positive, lovely or hateful…we need to freely choose with our minds what we allow in them! Because only Love 💕 can conquer hate and comments are learning moments to expose it! Remember…Bette too has said a lot of negative and hurtful things in her past…some she has asked forgiveness. Let’s not get on a soap box but instead stand beside each other as humans

[@Eq89]

Out of touch people!!!

[@generic_account2138]

Where is Sampson when you need him?

[@3dsmaxrocks699]

DISLIKE

[@ains7327]

U must be poor and illiterate and strung out from West Virginia according to her

[@BellaFirenze]

What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.

[@memyselfeyetallent7149]

@@BellaFirenze troll

[@SuperMrpeepers]

Bette that mask is doing nothing

[@zyxw2024]

Bette, wearing a face mask during this deadly pandemic demonstrates that you care for your health & safety of others too. That practicing 24/7 precautions AIDS in lessening the spreading of Covid-19/variants. All viruses are deadly. I remember seeing you on your own going about Greenwich Village, Manhattan in the 1970's when you lived on Barrow Street. I remember seeing your concert at Radio Music Hall in 1992 or was it 1993? Us Sagittarius just turned older. 😊 Almost forgot...I remember the Continental Baths. I worked there briefly, soon after you & Barry finished your gig there.

[@SuperMrpeepers]

@@zyxw2024 Sorry there JB -cloths mask provide no protection. If she really cared she would put on a real N95 up over nose securely.

[@AikawaMartialArts]

@@zyxw2024 it's a shame her tweets don't show her caring for others. That was a pretty nasty statement she made. I expect that from many in Hollywood but not from Bette. 2021 is lame

[@handbananaistherapist642]

The mask is a virtue signal.

[@BellaFirenze]

I'll let her know.

[@92alphagal]

Too bad you think you’re so much better than us hard working West Virginians.

[@BellaFirenze]

"What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out." West Virginia is , with a $48,850 median household income and a poverty rate of 17.54%. West Virginia's educational attainment levels are on the low side, with the lowest percentage of adults with a Bachelor's degree or higher, and has the second-lowest life expectancy of 74.8.