{"id":24571,"date":"2017-01-09T10:19:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=24571"},"modified":"2017-01-09T10:43:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:43:29","slug":"meryl-streeps-truth-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/01\/meryl-streeps-truth-to-power.html","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep’s Truth to Power"},"content":{"rendered":"
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See the video (below), courtesy of The Washington Post.<\/p><\/div>\n

Her remarks ran for four minutes, 55 seconds. At two minutes in, she said this:<\/center><\/p>\n

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. I still can\u2019t get it out of my head because it wasn\u2019t in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it\u2019s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody\u2019s life . . . <\/p><\/blockquote>\n