NP but Meryl Streep's Anti-Trump Golden Globe Acceptance Speech

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What's the difference between Hollywood and Trump?



On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
> transcript and video:
> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-golden-globes-2017-live-watch-all-of-meryl-streep-s-1483932724-htmlstory.html
>
> Trailer
>
> But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks
> in my heart, not because it was good, it was -- there’s nothing good about
> it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience
> laugh and show their teeth.
>
> It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat
> in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in
> privilege and power and the capacity to fight back. It, it kind of broke my
> heart when I saw it and I still can’t get it out my head because it wasn’t
> in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate when it’s
> modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters
> down into everybody’s life because it kind of gives permission for other
> people to do the same thing.
>
> Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful
> use their position to bully others, we all lose. OK, go on with that thing.
> OK, this brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power
> to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage.
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