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

[ish mailian]

One in the same

On Monday, January 9, 2017, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, I'll bite. What?
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>
> > On Jan 9, 2017, at 6:55 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > What's the difference between Hollywood and Trump?
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Allan Balliett <
> allan.balliett at gmail.com <javascript:;>> 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.
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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