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

[David Morris]

Nope.

False equivalencies are what got us all into this mess.  Stop this lazy
thinking!  It will be our death!

David Morris

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:39 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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> 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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