Bette Midler Donated to MeidasTouch SuperPAC Targeting Joe Rogan

PatriotTakes, an leftist group, participated in the publication of controversial footage that attacked Joe Rogan. PatriotTakes is reportedly affiliated with the leftist SuperPAC MeidasTouch funded by Bette Midler. 

Leftist Hocus Pocus According to data from the Federal Election Commission, Bette Midler gave at least $53,000 in 2020 to MeidasTouch

PatriotTakes claims to be a partner of MeidasTouch and bills itself as “exposing right-wing extremism,” has aggressively attacked Rogan. PatriotTakes statesRogan was also accused of using the N-word multiple times.  Anti-Trumpers Ben, Brett, and Jordan Meiselas, dubbed the “Meidas brothers,” founded MeidasTouch.  MeidasTouch, however, reportedly holds skeletons that could make the PatriotTakes attack on Rogan hypocritical. 

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy pointed out PatriotTakes’ partnership with the openly leftist, anti-Trump MeidasTouch SuperPAC. Portnoy said while having a virtual debate with the Meiselas brothers that he had “definitive proof” one of them casually used the N-word. 

MeidasTouch is a Democrat SuperPAC (Super Political Action Committee) with the ironic motto, “Because Truth Is Golden.” The Meiselas brothers aimed to produce anti-Trump content and had collected over $300,000 by July 2020, soon after the SuperPAC’s founding, according to CNN. It appears Midler was looking to take advantage of MeidasTouch’s propaganda campaign. 

According to MeidasTouch, Midler collaborated with MeidasTouch more times than once to create brazen propaganda videos. One videoMidler sang vocals from February 2021, claiming that Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO), among several other Republican lawmakers, encouraged “insurrections” and ought to be locked up. The video ends with a snapshot of America being “great again without” the Republicans with a person waving a Biden 2020 flag. Another video that MeidasTouch proudly touted on its website, produced “in collaboration with Bette Midler,” was a petty and vindictive attack on then-President Donald Trump, from his hair to his tweets. It ends with the phrase, “Vote For Joe Biden.” MeidasTouch’s article called Trump “The most serious threat to the country.” [Emphasis added.]

MeidasTouch was established in 2005 tried to claim it did not coordinate any attack on Joe Rogan and that it does not believe in “cancel[ing]” people in a tweet thread.

Midler’s sordid history of going on leftist rants nukes MeidasTouch’s and PatriotTakes’ credibility as objective sources.

Midler’s reaction after the death of conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh was to label him a member of the Ku Klux Klan. She recently called West Virginians “Poor, illiterate and strung out” while on a screed against Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) for holding up Joe Biden’s massive $1.75 trillion “Build Back Better” bill. She also called for violence against Senator Rand Paul (R.KY), in 2018 when his delaying of a Senate voting caused a short government shutdown.  Midler isn’t the only prominent Hollywood leftist who has been a MeidasTouch recipient. CBS’s It’s a good priceFEC records show that Drew Carey, the host of SuperPAC donated $20,000 as well. It’s a good priceA special May 2020 show featuring RuPaul and drag queen RuPaul was aired as part of a campaign to raise funds for Planned Parenthood.

PatriotTakes has posted clips of Rogan, allegedly defendingOder usingThe N-word Slur. PatriotTakes published an official statement accusing Rogan of “despicable racist conduct” and demanding Spotify “terminate” his show. 

MRC Free Speech America reached out to CBS for comment on Carey’s donations but has received no response as of the publication of this article.

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