by Uncola via TheBurningPlatform.com
On Sunday, January 8, 2016, while waiting for the 10PM local news, I surfed through some channels and landed on NBC as the actress Meryl Streep was speaking. It was during the Golden Globes and I caught the tail end of her speech after she won the Cecil B. DeMille Award. This once-in-a-lifetime award is an honor conferred by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment”.
As Streep was speaking, she appeared to have had the entire room entranced, even moving some of the Hollywood stars in the audience to tears. As the cameras panned over the brigade of befuddled, bespectacled, bearded and bare-legged clowns, you could see them overcome by raw emotion before Streep’s heartfelt words. Paradoxically, her delivery was not meant to be comedic. As I watched the scene unfold in complete disbelief, I thought to myself: “This isn’t a parody. It is real. It isn’t an act. It is actually happening”.
Referring to President Elect Donald Trump, Streep said:
It was that moment, when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter; someone he out-ranked 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 in real life.
Apparently, in the minds of movie mogul morons, the country has been taken over by extreme xenophobes, radical racists and blasphemous bigots who wish to deport all those of color as well as the foreign born. Meryl Streep and her fellow actors believe Trump to be a dictator in waiting who enjoys coldly mimicking the handicapped, and racially impure, for no other reason than the profusive and unrestrained hatred in his wicked heart.
The entire episode was a 2015 rerun from the presidential campaign when the mainstream media was attacking Trump for statements he made regarding Muslims celebrating on rooftops in New Jersey after the 911 attacks. While the press was labeling Trump as a xenophobic liar for making these remarks, Trump referred them to a September 18, 2001 article in the Washington Post that stated: “law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation”.
The Post’s 2001 report just happened to have been co-written by the journalist Serge Kovaleski, who coincidently, has a disease called Arthrogryposis, a congenital condition causing abnormally twisted joints. When Kovoaleski issued a qualifying statement in response to Trump’s mention of the article, Trump responded again and characterized Kovaleski’s response as a form of “groveling”, or back-peddling, complete with a Trumpian display of bent wrists and flailing arms.
Of course, this gave reason for the media, and certain Hollywood actresses, to mournfully denounce Trump’s lack of empathy for the handicapped as they marked another notch on their whiteboards as to why the Donald is unfit for the presidency.
To Meryl Streep, Trump is a miscarriage of justice that should be immediately rectified. This is why, in her Golden Globes speech, she pleaded support for an initiative designed to protect both healthy and handicapped journalists as they wage the war against fake news, Russian espionage, sandy-haired dictators and deplorable brownshirts:
We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our Constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood foreign press and all of us in our community to join us in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, and we’re going to need us going forward and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.
Yes, the mainstream media, Meryl Streep and all of Hollywood are now clearly advocating for truth, justice and the American Way under the Constitution. But only as long WikiLeaks revelations are overlooked as well as the corruption of the Clinton Foundation; Bill Clinton’s misogyny and perjury; Hillary Clinton’s political deception and incompetence; Obama’s treasonous policies, including illegal immigration; the Islamic rape of the West; the proliferation of ISIS and the complete creepiness of Anthony Wiener, John Podesta, spirit cooking and Pizzagate.
Streep also said in her peculiarly plaintive appeal to the better angels of our deplorable nature:
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.
Preach it, Meryl. You go, girl. Hopefully your good friend, Robert De Niro, is listening. You know, your fellow luminary and compadre of compassion who called Trump “blatantly stupid, a punk, a dog, a pig, a con and a mutt” who deserves to be punched in the face:
But why are these Hollywood types so offensive? What is it about them that makes me so angry?
I believe it is for the same reasons why I feel such revulsion upon seeing Matt Damon advocate for gun control while promoting his latest Jason Bourne flick. It is the hypocrisy and relative nature of their performances in combination with their political positioning. Or, it could be due to the fact they deceived me: They took my money and inspired me with their acting only to later disclose their complete fraudulence and foolishness.
Perhaps my disgust comes from the fact that I pay these actors to entertain and not to hear their political views. Again, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, as defined by the Hollywood Foreign Press, is an award for “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment”. Not politics. For Meryl Streep to use her acceptance speech as a platform during the Golden Globes is an insult; a crude “bait and switch”, a high-tech lynching, a terrorist high-jacking.
OK, now I’m the one being overly dramatic.
Regardless, one cannot deny the Hollywood crowd performs to manipulate their fan base through ad hominem attacks on Trump while cynically misrepresenting his campaign platforms of illegal immigration and trade. This is why Trump won. Patriotic people voted so they might be able to afford to go to the movies again. Yet the Shining Stars of Hollywood, blinded by their own perceived radiating brilliance, don’t see how they are shitting on those who pay their ridiculously high movie salaries. Even worse, we have been judged by these Hollywood thespians as ignorant xenophobes and racists.
So FUCK YOU, Meryl. A gigantic middle-finger salute to you and all of your friends. Go ahead and shove every last vestige of the Hollywood glitter you can find right up your collective asses. There can be only three explanations for your complete idiocy:
First, you have become so mentally lazy in your success and have grown so lethargically effete that you can’t even think rationally anymore. In other words, you are easily deceived.
Or, it could be that most of you Hollywood actors are just plain dumb. On balance, unlike most professions other than, perhaps, professional dog walking, acting doesn’t require a lot of intelligence.
Or, lastly, it could be because you have an agenda and are simply reading from scripts that are provided to you by your corporate masters. After all, judging by your performances on screen, it does appear most of you will do anything for money. Am I right?
These must also be the reasons why Hollywood actors love both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton so much. After all, these two are of the greatest actors to have ever performed before the cameras.
Movies are an escape from the drama of real life. They can also serve as a reminder of values that are important. Rarely, however, do films today even remotely approach the level of high art. Furthermore, Hollywood awards ceremonies are simply orgies of self-adulation, hubris, movie magic and mutually manufactured masturbation:
They shine like glitter
Their beauty, sparkling bright
On the screen, through a transmitter
Nothing natural in their light
Of all the stars in Hollywood, none of them really matter. They are illusionary and, at times, entertaining. That’s all there is, folks. There isn’t any more.
Actors are professional liars. They pretend for a living. Their entire adult lives are predicated upon and reliant on deception.
It may be for fun, entertaining even, but make no mistake about what it is that they do for work in their time on this earth.
What we do, how we behave, the circles we travel in all have an impact on how we think and feel about life. Everyone finds some justification for their lifestyle regardless of who they are and what they do from the criminal to the saint. Most of those people in that room don’t make their own beds, clean their own toilets, raise their own children, paint their own houses or do their own taxes. They live in a world where other human beings serve them, wait on them, praise them, ask them for their signature as if it were valuable and as a result, they see themselves as different- better human beings.
And all of that is a direct result of their duplicity.
How would you imagine them to perceive the world in any other way? There may be a few who are so grounded, so disciplined and reasonable that they have simply used their talents to further their careers economically but divorce themselves from the associated circuses of that lifestyle, but they are rare individuals, like a hooker with a heart of gold.
If these folks weren’t actors they would be waiters and waitresses.
Actually, waiters and waitresses are 99% hard working folks. Just the opposite of these sociopaths.
“Actors are professional liars.”
Possibly, the Best Comment I have ever read.
I stand in awe this morning, and I salute you.
res ipsa loquitur
I think HSF, you’re pushing the boundaries calling actors professional liars. You are painting with a broad brush. There is something sinister about lying that just isn’t present in acting.
I have been reduced to tears, to joy, to hope, and, also, to revulsion by watching actors ply their trade. I find, as a whole, nothing sinister about the acting.
When I see a great performance, I see the character not the person playing the character nor his political beliefs, life style, or follies. I paid for entertainment and only feel cheated if I walked away not feeling emotionally moved.
Famous actors do have a stage as their notoriety pushes them up front in the minds of Americans. However, I think that they should be more like Jimmy Stewart who confined himself to Hollywood rather than expressing personal political biases on a national forum. But…These are different times, this is the age of candor, of free expression regardless of the appropriateness of what one is feeling or consideration of the sensibilities of others. It is a time when everything is being challenged, even staid beliefs that have served mankind throughout the ages.
Challenging everything, I often feel we are throwing the baby out with the bath water. This I suspect is what happens in a turning point in mankind’s evolution. This is what happens in the Fourth Turning. A challenge to the past and a forging of the future. Those truths that are enduring will be purified in the fires of public opinion and thought and emerge cleansed of the dross that attached to them thru time to serve us once again.
Meryl Streep is just part of the process.
Jimmy Stewart was a Republican. Henry Fonda was his best friend and leader of Hollywood Democrats. They simply agreed never to discuss politics with each other. Both were veterans. Stewart probably killed dozens to hundreds or more people with his B-24 bomber. John Barrymore brought him out of his PTSD by telling him acting was meaningful and surely better to spend his life entertaining people instead of killing them.
There are virtually no actors today put through the wringer of war who have had the opportunity to learn what is really important and to have experienced life and death and horror first hand. They do not have the perspective of Stewart that it was great to entertain instead of to kill.
Eventually becoming a General in the Air Force and flying B-52s Stewart had a powerful counterbalance to his alter ego of Hollywood star. He KNEW what was real and what had value.
I love the scene in “The Shootist” where Jimmy Stewart tells that fake hero John Wayne he wishes he was brave like him. What a laugh. The Duke used his wife to get a deferment from active duty in WW2 and then filed for divorce 3 months before the end knowing damn well it was over. Jimmy Stewart was a real man. I’ve grown completely disillusioned with the fake shit thats ever came out of Hollywood.
Oh and remember Maureen O’Hara saying John Wayne is America when he was being commemorated for some bullshit or another. That was 30 years ago and still a great example of how false this nation has become.
Ya! Jake. I gave you a thumbs up for that comment. Poignant.
Well Homer, I mostly disagree with you. The antics of Streep and others like that punk DeNiro who thinks he is a GoodFella, all 5’5″ of him, is nothing but the scraping of finger nails on the wall hoping to cling to some semblance of relevance in today’s world.
I agree with you that most actors who have not achieved the “notoriety” of these icons of Hollyweird can create persona’s that move you to a different place. And most of these self-congratulatory types (hope they break an arm patting themselves on the back!) did at one time perform such works of art. But their condemnation of “fellow” Americans who are their meal ticket in the real world, have many more options today and, hence, their scramble to cling to a receding relevance in the world of entertainment.
It is sad that these “great” people behave so. Their view of the world is so “global” and elite, and their disdain for Americans rises above the nationalistic tendencies of those in the lower classes. They are simply “so much smarter and better” than the rest. Didn’t you know that? The 2016 election was a referendum on Hollywood as much as it was on the Globalist agenda affecting economies around the world. What the Deplorables said by voting for PE Trump was, in effect, Fuck You. And that message was to the politicians, globalists, MSM, and entertainment industry as well as academia. That is what they can’t stand.
I really don’t think of these Hollywood types as ‘great’ in the sense of a ‘great man’. Compared one to another in the field of acting, one could be a greater actor than another, one’s performances more compelling. Other than that, they are not great people, having fallen captive to the base nature of mankind, drugs and other addictions, egotism, and selfish behavior. Rising above their foibles make them a better person, but not necessarily a great person.
Well said Homer! Well Said.
No need to comment, Unco, you nailed it. I’ll just second your salutation. Fuck you, meryl.
My sentiments exactly Star…,
Anyone else pick up on another grand hypocrisy of this twaddling Hollywood wh&%*?
She is still greatly offended nd speaking out against Trump mocking a WaPo reporter ( who has a neuro/muscular disease) who was being dishonest at a Trump press conference, but she does not seem to be particularly outraged or speak out against the Special Needs kid in Chicago who recently was brutalized, kidnapped and tortured by 4 black thugs.
I guess that “empathy” only exists for those with her deranged and twisted political ideology…freakin hypocrites don’t get more brazen than these people. Water their plush lawns and Olympic pools filled up while they call for water rationing…flying private jets around the world to espouse their anthropogenic global warming BS…etc etc..nauseating.
Yup
I will add my sentiments as well. A great piece Uncola. Cheers!
Amazing that the word “hypocrite” came into the English language from the Greek word hypokrites, which means “an actor”.
Someone is obviously going to see these idiots movies and slobbering over them on Access Hollywood. Losers. I wouldn’t walk across the street to see any of them. How sorry an individual are you to be fawning over these sickos?
I don’t understand why anyone pays any attention to them outside of their acting.
Making your living pretending to be somebody else hardly qualifies you to be some kind of revered Sage or demonstrate your wisdom.
Most of these people aren’t even people I would bother or want to know in real life, they just wouldn’t be worthwhile as a friend or acquaintance to me in my life.
Jerry Lewis made a career of impersonating spastics on screen. Hollywood never called him on it and demanded he desist. Comics and actors have long parodied the mentally ill, crippled and deformed for laughs or effect. Charities bombard us with the same in their appeals our money.
“Politics ain’t beanbag” is a famous aphorism as is “If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen”. Reporters who want to dish it out should be prepared to get served with a heaping helping of their own personal issues with Donald Trump doing the cooking. Its only ‘fair’.
These Hollywood products are all in the fishbowl looking out. The groupthink is a potent discipline method, step out of line and “BANG” your career is down the tubes. I have decided to be more bold amongst my progressive acquaintances, after all bully’s need to be stood up against. Fight fire with fire!
Most on the left especially the wealthy elitest from Hollywood are mentally deranged in believing because they have amassed great wealth pretending to be something they are not we should give some credence to their opinion ! We must remember generally the left wing agendas have been harmful to most Americans but had no effect on the wealthy elites ! The your shit is shit but my shit is stuff reigns supreme . As for racism let’s just look at the facts blacks 13.3% of the population require 50% of government services even after decades of set asides , grants and intential promotions to achieve diversity and the results are ??? In 1960 America was 80% white and lead the world in science , technology , public education and industry “fact” ! Now America is 60% white and every facet of our society is crumbling ! I am aware it is not just a race mix issue however it is a contributing factor again one that has no effect in Meryl’s little snowflake land of make believe !
They call them “actors” only because “manipulators” sounds too harsh.
The movie Hail Cesar most likely sums up the real Fake Hollywood.
I will miss watching streep. Boycotted now and forever. Hypocrite of highest order. From silkwood to nuclear is green energy, and now this.
Fuck most of Jewwood . Haven’t been to a movie since 2009 . Haven’t been to a sporting event in 20 years.Don’t plan on ever going back to either.I got rid of my cable last year.I occasionally buy a movie to watch at home but that’s it.
From Out of Africa to out of her mind……
Just because these people, the hollywood elite, do and say what other people tell them to do, and make mega millions for it, what make them think that their opinions carry any weight, especially out here in abominable land?
They should just shut the fuck up and so their jobs…….acting for the camera.
Bob
when they open there mouth shit comes out, well never go to watch a movie again, yes that will still make money when i watch on cable, but that’s it. every sense the 3os they are all left commies but we the people are starting to see what low life scum they are.
Introducing a new term to the English language:
STREEPY
—-adjective; a hyper sanctimonious and pompous person, i.e. a finger wagger. “Damn that biatch, she sure was streepy this morning.”
“The Lord loveth the humble of heart, but hateth the streepy.”
—– Stuckiviticus 12:3
I love it. That’s awesome.
Meryl and all are nothing but court jesters, here to entertain the bored. How they got rich I will never understand. Who in their right mind gives other people money to entertain them?
I think the last time I was in a movie theater was in the early 70s as a young boy and there with friends to watch films such as Pippi Longstocking or The Apple Dumpling Gang. I don’t even think we were there to watch the movie as much as to eat candy and clown around.
I was in 7th grade when Star Wars came out. I never went and to this day I do not care. Everyone was talking about it and I could care less. Same goes for sports and music. Never been to a game and never will. I was coaxed into going to a rock concert when I was about 30 due to free tickets a good friend had. VanHalen, First and last concert. I have never purchased music with the exception of CDs with a mixture of the greatest classical pieces for a whopping $2 each. That was still a waste of money as it is free on the radio.
I find the sports, entertainment, and music industry as merely herd mentality. “Everybody is talking about it” “Everyone will be there” Whatever, Clapping seals!
It takes a special kind of narcissistic, deluded and somewhat disturbed human being to be an actor/actress [in general but I am willing to concede there are a few sane/moral ones] on almost any level except perhaps local theater. My experience is that they live in a world of unreality beyond mere screen time.
As for the physically disabled, I think teasing and making fun of them is perfectly acceptable. Where would we be if we couldn’t tell a good one armed (or no armed) man joke from time to time?
What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs who lies in front of a door?
Matt
What do you call two guys with no arms and no legs hanging out over a window?
Curt and Rod
My kids call these ‘grandpa jokes’. They are multi-generational. Like driving past the graveyard and calling it the “dead center of town” or asking how many dead people there are there? Apparently, all of them.
The list goes on.
It occurs to me that the primary purpose of the left isn’t to fight for justice but rather to destroy humor.
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Trump does the same spastic hand wave to describe any confused and/or backpeddling person, handicapped or not. Serge Kovaleski’s handicap is that some of his joints are twisted and frozen so it is PHYSICALLY NOT POSSIBLE for him to do the spastic hand wave that Streep is claiming was Trump imitating him. Something really smells here and it’s not Trump.
Two guys who didn’t give Streep a standing ovation.
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Sir: Pardon my shallow little world outlook, but who is the guy in the front?….thanks, soapweed
Vince Vaughn. He leans libertarian.
I like Mel Gibson and I like the movies he makes. I’ve seen “What Women Want” more times than I can count. I like Helen Hunt, too.
Sure, Mel has has his share of personal problems, but haven’t we all. Nobody get thru life without personal challenges. How we handle them is whether we gain or loose in this life.
No one is immune.
Helen Hunt was over-rated. Meryl Streep can act her ass off.
I’m scrolling mentally and I can’t come up with another actress’ name.
I would have to go waay back to Jessica Tandy. Heck, even Tippi Hedren was better than the starlets pretending to be actresses today.
Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn aren’t actors, sorry.
Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem were really acting in No Country.
Tommy Lee upstaged Harrison Ford in the remake of The Fugitive.
Bardem could have taken it easy since he had the action/anti-hero role that Eastwood, Bronson or McQueen could have done in their sleep but he added menace to a simple conversation in a gas station, not many could do that; certainly not the pretty boys that pass for actors nowadays.
Okay, let’s hear your lame-ass suggestions; call it TBP’s nominees for a real and meaningful academy award.
Mike Pence does a good job bringing a Tom Tomorrow cartoon character to ‘life’ – such as it is.
So you’re the arbiter of who is or is not an actor/actress?
Good to know.
dawg, I can’t even spell arbiter. In soccer, an arbitro is a ref.
You would be pushed to tears watching so-called actors in Mexican tv. Then you see almost the same shitty performance from CSI actors. I can’t stand it.
Just to get the shit taste out of your mouth, you have to look far and wide for a real actor. So that is my mistake, starting at the bottom. You, you never delve so deep in the muck and therefore have no frame of reference to compare lousy to real shit. Once you do so, you are amazed at how shitty lousy acting is.
After a while you want to slash your wrists.
Look, listen to enough rock and roll, especially shit like Black Sabbath and then you see how it all sounds the same. Inducting rockers into a hall of fame is totally unneeded. It’s all garbage. I like a few songs once in a great while but then I have to go listen to some accordion music to clear my soul. Any accordion music. God, how I hated it when I was young. Now I find it is most useful for centering myself, giving the boot to puffed up bullshit.
No doubt you think Zak Efron is a real actor and Justin Beiber is a real musician. Don’t let me pop your bubble.
To what shall I compare the Trump? Fatty Arbuckle comes to mind; popular, funny, but he has a mean streak too.
This is who would, in my wildest teenaged fantasy, play me in the movie of my life. (See the clip below for the actress I thought was the bomb. I tried hard to look like her, but never quite had the sultry moves Jessica Lange had/has and if you don’t think she has sexy eyes along the lines of Sophia Loren, then you didn’t watch the King Kong remake in the 70s and see why the big ape was willing to leave paradise.)
I tried hard, but never could quite get the look quite right.
Now? I’m thinking I’ll lose all this weight, keep hiking with the dogs, get some goats and I’ll just play myself in my own life.
However I did enjoy seeing these clips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnZ3PrFItjM
Good call on the jessica lange. She brings the sexy like no other.
You perve, you probably watched king kong over and over. Maybe you wished you had been in her bed combing her hair like Tootsie. I like your taste in women.
Well ….. I suppose maybe we should actually look at the event in question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGAqmaBjQxg
IMHO, it certainly APPEARS that Trump is making fun of the guy’s handicap.
Then again, there’s this viewpoint;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8JqT2atxD8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aYFC_7ZIn4
Yup. Saw that. I edited my post before I saw yours.
Trump waved his hands wildly. The reporter’s disability is that he can’t move his hand.
Streep is officially on my shite list. She perhaps was mocking/exploiting…
again, exploiting, the reporter’s hand so she could slam Trump for something.
That is really bad…multiple exploitation in the name of phony virtue signaling.
And she KNEW it. God, (the power of good) shuns harming another to make
oneself appear better than that person. It was a form of gossip, intended to
ruin Trump’s reputation, and elevate Streep’s own…she failed. She is a thief,
a mocker, an exploiter, a liar…and a petty old biddy.
We deplorables feed, house, cloth and generally keep these Hollywood elites alive. They on the other hand, bring to the table unending portrayals of violence, vice and immorality. All the while patting themselves on the back as to their superiority. It’s truly a world of illusion that they live and have bought into.
I would like to hear from whoever ran down the page and down voted everyone. Help balance things out. Please explain to us why M.S. asks only the “principal press to hold power to account. To call them on the carpet for every outrage”. I’m pretty fucking outraged about the shit that has gone on in the Swamp for the last eight years. Is this the same “principal” press that goes along with the child molesting, war mongering, unlawful surveillance, financial market manipulation, healthcare fuckery, multi-million dollars POTUS vacations, home-brew email servers and keeps trying to convince me that the planet is getting catastrophically warm?
Tell us why we should spend money to see her movies. Or just down vote me too.
I’m actually more pissed that M.S. sees the artistry in acting but not mixed martial arts. I wonder if her bodyguards agree? Plenty of MMA fighters have become actors but how many actors decide to go fight in a cage? I would definitely pay good money to see Joanna Jedrzejczyk fight Amy Schumer. Jimmy Fallon vs. Connor McGregor would be the type of art that I could enjoy.
If this isn’t art, I don’t know what is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DV-cfcVzc
“Or, lastly, it could be because you have an agenda and are simply reading from scripts that are provided to you by your corporate masters. After all, judging by your performances on screen, it does appear most of you will do anything for money. Am I right?”
Your last reason that Meryl Creep is “…simply reading from scripts that are provided to you by your corporate masters.” is probably the correct explanation for her imbecilic outburst at the Golden Globes. As an aging actor with modest ability and clearly suffering the ravages of time, she has no choice but to parrot the party line, otherwise she will find herself out of a job. And remember that in order to be cast in a major role, just about all aspiring actresses must be spread their legs at the behest of Hollywood moguls who prey on young movie stars that, as we have seen from Pizzagate, include male and female children. It is well known that Hollywood is infested with sexual predators and pedophiles which helps explain the slime and filth produced by this cesspool. What Meryl Creep and her fellow actors fail to realize is that the days of Hollywood producing degenerate and subversive movies using mediocre actors like her is over and we are not far from that day when the the landscape with be dotted with abandoned and rotting movie theaters. When that happens, Hollywood will join the Main Stream Media as yet one more in a long list of discredited institutions. Revolutions can be cruel to people like Meryl Creep because once started, they become unstoppable and they take no prisoners.
Hollywierd and there elite masters know that there’s a storm coming.Working men,deplorables ,serfs are waking up daily to the bullshit they have been given.I can say with certainty working 35 years on the Atlantic that commercial fishermen are ready for a do over!
Ok, we have to go back some decades, but Lee Marvin was pretty cool. In character he could give that subtle (or maybe not so subtle) “You’ve got to be kidding me” attitude to someone. Sometimes a raised eyebrow was enough.
Speaking of Van Halen, they were the loudest band I’ve ever heard (sort of like the fictional Spinal Tap). I came out of one their shows with diminished hearing for an hour or so. Tom Petty and also Dire Straits gave very good live performances. In his post-Dire Straits career, Mark Knopfler has done some interesting but little-known work.
I didn’t hear right for two days after an AC/DC concert.
Hell, I didn’t think right for two days after an AC/DC concert. I always wondered whether I suffered permanent brain damage. I counted my finger for two weeks after that. You have five on one hand and six on the other, right?
FYI–she was put up to it. This was not just some off-the-cuff screed… she was asked by leftist operatives if she would indeed go off on Trump. And being a leftist nut-job herself, she agreed in advance. Her screed was scripted and rehearsed in advance of the show a couple of days before hand.
She was chosen to do it and was featured time-wise to do it because she is seemingly the most respected female actress in Hollywood (on the level of Oprah). If you noticed she was given an open-ended time frame to deliver her bullshit–agreed before hand by the network and the Golden Globe directors and the show’s producers.
Her screed was designed to get the maximum coverage afterwards with the news networks–Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebel’s could not have scripted and planned this well crafted stunt.
It was a political stunt, nothing more.
I’ve said it a thousand times: STOP funding your own destruction by giving hundreds of millions of dollars each year to Hollywood, which then turns around and uses your money to create TV shows, films and advertisements that promote anti-Americanism, warped history, communism, degeneracy, miscegenation and the overall destruction of our people and nation. STOP paying to see movies in the theater and CANCEL your cable TV subscription. I did it 12 years ago and never looked back. Besides, you can find enough entertainment online.
Show Meryl Streep and those like her who call everything between California and New York the “flyover states” that it’s the very people they despise and to whom they think themselves superior that supply their paychecks. If even 25% of people in the “flyover” states would DUMP HOLLYWOOD, it would collapse into a hole in the desert, and the celebutards would see who really has the power.
Meryl supported a child molester….Roman Polanski…gave him a standing ovation when he was being honored for his work.
Hollywood is a bowl of granola…a bunch of fruits,nuts and flakes.
Was it Jack Nicholson who said “your getting a standing ovation..”?
Was it Johnny Carson who popularized the fruits and nuts image of California and kicked in the Governor Moonbeam for added hilarity into posterity?
Bukhed, how can you support Admin? He gave those devil worshiping AC/DC creeps a standing ovation. And Trump grabbed giblets, how can you support him?
I think y’all need to pay less attention to what color hat the captain is wearing and more to where the ship is heading. It’s direction hasn’t changed for at least hundreds of years and it isn’t changing now. You are all living in a world decimated by weapons of mass distraction. Politics doesn’t matter. What group you think you belong to doesn’t matter. Just because you belong to a group doesn’t make its members better than anyone else. Try a little humility, a little self-reflection. They are all disgusting. Anyone who would want those jobs and would fight to get them has to be. Yet instead of disparagement, you choose emulation. Whatever side you are on, no one “up there” is your friend. You were manipulated and now no one cares about you or your future. If you are not sure about this, look at the past, it was once the future. Wow are humans stupid.
El Coyote….the only thing I support these days is my elbows when they’re resting my .308 on the shooters platform .
Gene…HELL YEAH . If you ever get a chance to talk to someone who has a great deal of wealth they’ll tell they don’t give crap who runs the country…they own all of them .
Excellent article Unbeknownst! Excellent comments.
Everywhere in the world artist are on the stupid side of politics. Few exceptions.
And there is a reason for that. As an artist, your job is to convey feelings. You need an above average perception about other’s feelings and needs. Take, as an example, Susan Sarandon in “Dead man walking”. She conveys very well the desperation and loneliness of a convict. It was a good movie. Period. A SOB like the one depicted in the movie should be jailed forever or executed. Of course he will fill like sh**. I would too if I were in dead row no matter what I did. Now equating “feelings” with “law” or “rights” is a difference story.
And here is where the best artists (those that can best convey feeling) fail. Politics is about as merciless as a jungle (or even worse, since a lioness would let you go if she has her stomach full). Mixing feelings and politics is just stupid. And that is what artists usually do.
For some reason we (as humans) seem mostly unable to separate talent from character from ignorance. Streep’s comments were as shallow and ridiculous and entirely predictable, as was the room’s reaction to them. Trump’s responded in kind. Why not say Meryl Streep has no business talking politics at the Golden Globes, why not say that the offending remark was taken out of context, why not simply take the high road and either say nothing or something nice about Streep? No, he calls her an overated actor? Seriously? If she is nothing else, she is a BRILLIANT actor. Period. But that’s the point, isn’t it? She is many other things, a mother, a wife, a sister, likely a narcissist, and a prissy bitch. Who knows? But more WHO CARES? I don’t give a shit what she has to say about politics or really anything else…I just want to see her act. Is that really so difficult a separation to make. Apparently.
I always think about perhaps my two favorite (now dead) singer/songwriters. By all accounts they were pretty useless, apathetic, narcissistic, selfish human beings–but, you know what…I didn’t know them, didn’t have to hang out with them, never had them over to my house for dinner…and really wouldn’t have wanted to if the opportunity had come up. You know what else? To this day, I’m often moved beyond words by the music they created. People are complex, the line between good and evil goes through every single one of us and it is only our current bullshit society that blinds us to these very obvious realities.
So, as is my wont, I got a little prolix there so here is some pith: We can’t praise an ad-hominem attack just because it’s “our” guy spewing it, and especially cannot just because we really don’t like the target of it. That’s the exact same hypocrisy that Streep demonstrated.
Ad hominem attacks to make a point about underlying facts and deeper issues are one thing. Ad hominem blitzkriegs to avoid these all together are quite another. Discernment is required. In their hypocrisy, the progressives show a lack of nuance when and where it counts.
In surveys I looked at when prepping for a thesis I never finished, I came to understand that the most HATED group when asked (of Journalists) were those they considered to be BIGOTS. So, even the supposedly objective journalists couldn’t bring themselves to give credence to anyone labeled by the Powers that Control the AP and Reuters (aka Gatekeepers) as “Racist or Sexist.”
AND, no one in journalism seemed to see the hypocrisy.
http://www.infowars.com/facebook-kills-beloved-pro-trump-account-in-latest-free-speech-crackdown/
Ive never seen Meryl Streep do a performance I thought was bad or good either, just ok nothing special. But what always seemed off in her movies from Out of Africa with Robert Redford in the 70s to Bridges of Madison County with Clint Eastwood in the 90s I think, was she never had the looks, very ordinary with a big bent nose, narrow small eyes, medium complexion and just average unnattractive features. Thats my impression, maybe others think shes beautiful but I dont see it. That she was given all the roles anyway suggests to me she must be very much owned and owing for being chosen to be a big name. No surprise then that her deal with the devil invol ves that acceptance speech on behalf of her benefactors.
De Niro I like much better, but am embarrassed for him in that clip. He looks like he doesnt know the difference between acting as a movie tough guy and actually being the real thing, or how far past his prime he is now to back when he made th ose movies. He would like to punch Donald in the face? Ok, just dont break anything trying is what I think when I watch that.
Hershey, did he say how hard?
Some guy sucker punched John Glenn once.
The Senator said he’d been hit harder in his youth.
I’ve wanted to punch a few people in the face here.
I’d have to use my cat’s paw, though.
She’s got a mean left hook.
I said I didn’t QUITE make the Jessica Lange look work, but in my early 30s, I came close.
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And I stopped Tae Kwon Do at Blue Belt when I was mid-forties, having determined that brain surgery was probably a good reason to stop a sport where kicking someone’s head was worth the most points. But, I could deliver a hell of an axe kick until then. (That’s my Nick holding the board for me with the Grand Master.)
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Maggie – bullshit. Taekwondo belt grading does not require nor involve getting kicked, in the head nor anywhere else. In competitions, yes. To attain belts – no.
I know from whence I speak. One of my kids was a national champion and black belt.
My own rule of paying a fortune for the sport for my son was that before he could test for the next color, he needed to compete at his belt level in tournament. Grand Master Won actually required all his students to spar in full gear during belt tests. I never saw anyone fail, but I did see him suggest extra work for various students, including my 16-year-old son when he grew winded after a minute or so sparring for red-stripe (black belt candidate). It was his first time sparring with the Grand Master’s nephew (age 14), he was basically unprepared for the skill level of the younger Korean black belt. Holy crap those kids are fast. Anyway, my son was agile and flexible and fast, but he could never keep up with Gin, the young man who now runs the school for his family.
As for myself, I did enjoy sparring and until the dizzy spells started, I never even minded taking a kick or a punch. When I was practicing some jump kicks for a test, I got very dizzy and decided on my own to stop acting like a kid in my early 40s. Master Won told me he would modify the belt tests (it is all about the money, although the kids do get some value from it all) for me. My son went to second degree and he’s still very flexible and works out, but doesn’t do the martial arts anymore.
A good estimate is ten thousand dollars for one black belt with his name written in Korean issued by the Kukkiwon. Was it worth it? If it teaches him to finish what he starts, perhaps.
Won not Jon… I knew quite a bit of Korean when taking classes and helping out at the gym after I stopped “playing.”
I remember the greeting Sah Buh Nim Kay Kenyae and I think it meant…
Honorable Teacher, Greetings.
The “Master” is always the highest ranking instructor in the room, though in TKD, Master refers to the fifth degree in black. Grand Master is 10 degrees and is privvy to the kind of shit Chuck Norris won’t talk about.
You doesn’t has to call me master.
I could have purchased the blue belt, am sure the Grandmaster would have taken my money and allowed me to pass without the jumps or kicks required by the association, but I really determined I needed to stop.
Some folks require fighting for the tests. He did… South Central TKD Association in Moore Oklahoma.
Meryl Streep portrayed a cunt in Kramer vs Kramer, but unlike Matt Damon, she is one in real life.
Are you average IQ, Joe?
Have you not been listening?
I said you can assume all actors are queer.
They are not normal to begin with, what kind of a stretch would it be if she was Doris Day and played a virgin? No, she has to be a cunt who acts like a regular Josephine, if you get my drift.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/11/peter-schweizer-money-used-help-bankroll-world-economic-forum-davos/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
Hollywood actors are overrated, and overrated bigly. All of their sparkle is completely phony and is fabricated in post-production. Anyone who has spent time on a movie set sees how anti-climatic it is. Often the actors have no clue what they are saying. In post-production the monkeys will slice and dice each individual word and paste it all together to create something completely different. Often even in one sentence you are seeing several different takes spliced together.
When someone who doesn’t know better glosses over a “great performance” by an actor, I have to laugh. Because the actor in question has no idea what’s going on in most of the film. The scenes are filmed completely out of order, out of context for the character. Often the actor has never seen significant parts of the film before it comes out. Sometimes lead actors in a film don’t even film scenes together. They have no idea how the directors are going to choose to make them look. They have no control over it either.
Actors really are perfect automatons. They are led around by handlers all day who coordinate their every move. They are dressed and made up while they sit in a chair. They read their lines right before they say them and corrected by script supervisors. The technical people then pick out the parts that don’t suck and make them look good. They take stunts that look so lame in real life and slow them down, add mammoth sound effects and tons of CGI cut scenes. The composers add a soundtrack that hijacks your emotions and turns the mundane into the momentous in a way that never happens in real life. Then publicists send these vegetables out on the talk show circuit and tell them what anecdotes to say to promote whatever movie they filmed 2 years ago and can barely remember.
And Americans continue to fall for this spectacle. After all the above is done, Americans debate each other over who is “the best actor.” The nominations are purchased by the studio companies as part of a calculation to maximize DVD sales. From the moment they are discovered as an above average looking barista to the day their assets are seized in bankruptcy, Hollywood actors’ lives are a complete farce.
This doesn’t go for theatre actors, who don’t have the benefit of an army of handlers, publicists, and post-production people and actually have to perform their lines without flubbing every 2 seconds.
battle ship, some parts of your analysis are true, they do have to go on the promotional tours. some actors have been poor promoters. maybe because their heart wasn’t in it and they didn’t like the result or they are just dicks. bill cosby panned his ghost dad movie. bruce willis was just a dick and refused to promote his movie.
as for the actors memorizing lines, I can really appreciate method actors. we got a lot of good movies as a result of this technique. you can see the difference when watching line readers, they have a tendency to rely on ‘mugging’ and playing the ham or overacting.
your explanation reminded me of Ptolemy’s geocentric star system. you take the long way around to explain a simple system:
“Actors really are perfect automatons. They are led around by handlers all day who coordinate their every move. They are dressed and made up while they sit in a chair. They read their lines right before they say them and corrected by script supervisors. The technical people then pick out the parts that don’t suck and make them look good. They take stunts that look so lame in real life and slow them down, add mammoth sound effects and tons of CGI cut scenes. The composers add a soundtrack that hijacks your emotions and turns the mundane into the momentous in a way that never happens in real life.”
you could have produced a sharper comment if you had researched your topic, don’t get me wrong, i liked it but i’ve read that even the stars are not automatons simply reading their lines:
” The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”
EC- Is your (shift) key busted?
I’ve gone undercover for a while.
Radio silence.
This doesn’t go for theatre actors.
A video.. Watch the Sandy Hook presser. Amazing! An Actor slipping into role? You decide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAUtqTouavo
Trump..Trump…Trump.the ONLY effin’ chance you yanks have left !
Even the chinks can see it..
Japs are not Chinks
IF there would be any justice, an asteroid would have struck the room filled with sociopathic narcissists.
They owe their celebrity status to the fact that there is a huge number of really dumb people that are impressed by their ludicrously propagandistic flics. It’s called ‘Predictive Programming’ and Hollyweird actors and their artificial female counterparts are willfully doing the bidding of the Deep State.
The world would be a better place without these truly useless eaters. But then, again, they get their ‘power’ from morons that worship them like gods. A brief look at the checkout register in any supermarket, grocery store, or convenient store is placated with despicable magazines about these pathetic peddlers.
Only when people stop worshiping these failures for a Human Being, Hollyweird might lose its status as the number one propaganda organ of the Deep State.
While I partially agree with the FU Streep, it should be “Fuck’em all”.
And yet you take your moniker from John Lennon’s Imagine.
A helpful hint, moran, a brief look is not ‘placated’ with magazines.
Get out the basement, useless eater.
Where is LLPOH when we need him?