NP but Meryl Streep's Anti-Trump Golden Globe Acceptance Speech
Joseph Tracy
brook7 at sover.net
Mon Jan 9 22:01:46 CST 2017
Maybe insults also contributed to this mess. Then again maybe it has something to do with oil addiction, homelessness, bombing people. Maybe there is guilt aplenty for all of us sad humans.
> On Jan 9, 2017, at 9:50 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Nope.
>
> False equivalencies are what got us all into this mess. Stop this lazy thinking! It will be our death!
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> David Morris
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> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:39 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> One in the same
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> On Monday, January 9, 2017, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I'll bite. What?
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> Www.innergroovemusic.com
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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?
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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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