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

[Keith Davis]

Ok, I'll bite. What?

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> On Jan 9, 2017, at 6:55 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What's the difference between Hollywood and Trump?
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>> 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
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>> Trailer
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>> 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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