Posted on 08/12/2016 6:48:07 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Acclaimed actress and Hillary Clinton loyal Meryl Streep was "shocked" at colleague Clint Eastwood's recent interview with Esquire magazine, in which he said he would vote for Donald Trump and said that it would be difficult to listen to Mrs. Clinton's voice for four years.
Newsbusters parsed excerpts from Streep's response, which was recently published in Variety magazine:
Speaking to Variety magazine, Streep expressed “shock” at Eastwood’s comments: “I’ll have to speak to him…I’ll have to correct that! I’m shocked. I really am. Because he’s more — I would have thought he would be more sensitive than that.”
It’s fair to wonder how shocking it was for Streep when Eastwood was an outspoken supporter of Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election where he took the stage at the RNC and famously (and hilariously) compared President Barack Obama to an empty chair.
Streep seems to think that people act differently when they are alone or with only a few people, but when together in large groups, it’s another story. She told Variety:
"When you get a lot of people in a group, it can go good or it can go bad in a way that [overrides] each individual person… aggregate of everybody’s emotion, it’s such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people, are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up and they’re outside of themselves. They’re behaving as a larger unit, not just themselves."
As always, members of the Left live in their own bubble and regurgitate only the narratives heard on mainstream media. It's been documented that the so-called "volatile" nature of Trump supporters at their candidate's rallies is more than an overblown media construct, and that by and large Trump rallies and those in attendance are largely good-natured. What's more, what liberals see -- or think they see -- in others, they can never see in themselves. We wonder if Streep would have talked the same way about the "bloodlust" that had in fact become par for the course at Bernie Sanders' rallies and supporter protests -- replete with American and Israeli flag burnings.
The Clinton camp boasts that it has or, will, garner some 93 percent of those Bernie supporters, which then should give people like Streep reason to pause.
But it won't. Because in the minds of out-of-touch celebrities, only they and theirs are enlightened. And those who disagree are Nazis.
She just wants to play Hillary in the biopic.
Losing respect for this outstanding actress.
Meryl, what you do, genius though you are at it, is only make-believe.
“I’ll have to correct that!”
The battle cry of progressives.
Guess what, I'm with MR. Eastwood, I want Trump.
If she wasn't in Hollyweird, she would be a Welfare mom with 7 kids, by 7 different sperm donors...she is stupid...
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