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Meryl Streep may have given the most important speech of our lifetime
Posted on 1/8/17 at 10:51 pm
Posted on 1/8/17 at 10:51 pm
I'm a changed man now.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 10:52 pm to Tiger Ryno
You were headed in a dark direction, its refreshing to see you've turned the corner.
Do you feel rehabilitated?
Do you feel rehabilitated?
This post was edited on 1/8/17 at 10:54 pm
Posted on 1/8/17 at 10:52 pm to Tiger Ryno
Waiting for the Meryl Streep is overrated tweets from Trump
Posted on 1/8/17 at 10:53 pm to Tiger Ryno
I've always looked up to celebrities. A real beacon of morality.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 10:53 pm to Tiger Ryno
No,
the guy in your sig pic gave the greatest speech in my lifetime.
It's still real to me damnit
the guy in your sig pic gave the greatest speech in my lifetime.
It's still real to me damnit
Posted on 1/8/17 at 10:57 pm to Chuker
I gave you a up vote because I felt the sarcasm was heartfelt
Posted on 1/8/17 at 10:59 pm to Tiger Ryno
This one?
quote:
Please sit down. Thank you. I love you all. You’ll have to forgive me. I’ve lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend. And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read.
Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said: You and all of us in this room really belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners and the press.
But who are we, and what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places. I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island; Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids in Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy. And Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in London — no, in Ireland I do believe, and she’s here nominated for playing a girl in small-town Virginia.
Ryan Gosling, like all of the nicest people, is Canadian, and Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, and is here playing an Indian raised in Tasmania. So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
They gave me three seconds to say this, so: An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us, and let you feel what that feels like. And there were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that. Breathtaking, compassionate work.
But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good; there was 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, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of 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 kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose. O.K., go on with it.
O.K., this brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call him on the carpet for every outrage. That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in the Constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, because we’re gonna need them going forward, and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.
One more thing: Once, when I was standing around on the set one day, whining about something — you know we were gonna work through supper or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, “Isn’t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?” Yeah, it is, and we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight.
As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 10:59 pm to Tiger Ryno
It was the second most important speech ever given by a Meryl. First was Merril Hoge's speech to a Midget Football league that turned out to just be a bunch of little kids.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 11:02 pm to Tiger Ryno
But, did she remember to thank all of the little people?
This post was edited on 1/9/17 at 9:22 am
Posted on 1/8/17 at 11:05 pm to Pico de Gallo
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O.K., this brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call him on the carpet for every outrage.
Hot take there Meryl.
Where were you during the Fast and Furious program, Benghazi and Clintons Federal email felonies.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 11:06 pm to Pico de Gallo
Her speech didn't make sense. Donald's wife is a foreigner, how is enforcing immigration policy and laws the same as saying all foreigners should be forced to leave and none should be allowed in?
Posted on 1/8/17 at 11:10 pm to TheWalrus
She's a celebrity, she doesn't have to make sense.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 11:10 pm to Pico de Gallo
quote:
But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good; there was 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, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of 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 kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose. O.K., go on with it.
LINK
Meryl, it took me 10 seconds on google to completely nullify this rubbish of your "speech".
Posted on 1/8/17 at 11:10 pm to Tiger Ryno
Swing away Meryl.
Meryl, swing away.
Meryl, swing away.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 11:12 pm to TheWalrus
quote:
Her speech didn't make sense. Donald's wife is a foreigner, how is enforcing immigration policy and laws the same as saying all foreigners should be forced to leave and none should be allowed in?
She also followed a completely fabricated story narrative that Trump was making fun of the disabled NYT reporter. One he had never met nor knew was disabled, but even if he did he wasn't making fun of his disability.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 11:49 pm to Pico de Gallo
quote:
And if we kick them all out you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 11:51 pm to TheChosenOne
quote:
t was the second most important speech ever given by a Meryl. First was Merril Hoge's speech to a Midget Football league that turned out to just be a bunch of little kids.
Probably the best post you ever made right here.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 11:51 pm to Tiger Ryno
That's a great link you provided
Posted on 1/8/17 at 11:57 pm to tiggerthetooth
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She also followed a completely fabricated story narrative that Trump was making fun of the disabled NYT reporter. One he had never met nor knew was disabled, but even if he did he wasn't making fun of his disability.
Wat?
C'mon man, how delusional are you? The guy covered Trump for years.
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