As I watched the superb actress, Meryl Streep, deliver a self-absorbed and pompous "sermon," I was reminded of a quote by Alf Mapp Jr: "No age is unique in producing privileged persons who can happily dichotomize condemnation of their society and enjoyment of its fruits.".

Trump seems to feed off negative comments by his detractors. They help maintain his popularity with his base.

Hello WDonway,
Why do people place any stock in the political leanings of celebrities. I left play acting long behind me as a child and embraced the real world with open eyes. Some actors, perhaps most, still live in their make believe world.
I say grow up... look around, the real world is not that of the idealist. Their greatest asset is imagination and an ability to pretend. This colors their view along with the bubble they live in surrounded by sycophants too afraid to tell them the emperor has no clothes.
I hesitate to quote the bible, but there are among the pages some wisdom ... "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." 1 Corinthians 13:11
Respectfully,
O.A.

Ms Streep is entitled to her opinion and to voicing it. What she is not entitled to is free time on TV to do so. If these rich Hollywood snowflakes were truly interested in making their point, they would buy time on the radio, TV and "Cable" outlets and provide their ideas to the public at their expense not the advertisers or publics.
Put you money where you mouth is Hollywood. I might just listen.. No I wouldn't but it would be refreshing to see you pay to lak rather than jet paid to talk.

Thanks, Walter. What a sad business it is. How could Steep plan her remarks without her or someone else fact-checking them?

It's a pity. She is the greatest living film actress, however.

Celebrities who are famous are worshiped as experts on anything politically correct.
Those who win Oscars and stuff like the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award somehow hold intellectual doctorates for expert Jackass Party braying.

+1 Walter

I think Meryl is about to learn the economic lesson that Susan Sarandon & Timothy Robbins learned some years back.

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Thanks for exposing the propaganda from another media darling. This is exactly the kind of reporting that the statists hope to eliminate with legislation against "false news."
Streep arguably has plausible deniability (aka an irrational excuse to lie shamelessly) and since Trump wasn't mentioned by name he likely has no legal recourse for the slander, as her lawyers probably informed her if they reviewed her prepared comments.

The statist left is desperate to destroy the public's opinion of Trump before he starts to reverse the meddling they have forced on a majority of states against their will. Statists in con-gress are guaranteed to claim that the people do not approve of Trump's programs if this disgusting propaganda program succeeds.