Streep Plays Moms in Movies but Disses Real Ones in Rant

I am a movie buff and I love Meryl Streep’s acting. She is talented at playing all types of women — and some of her most iconic roles have been playing moms.

In “Kramer vs. Kramer,” she played a mother who leaves her husband and child behind during a time of crisis, and returns from California to New York to re-enter her little boy’s life. Try not to cry when she says, “I should have painted clouds downtown,” when telling her ex-husband she won’t be taking their son away from him after all.

Sadly, like so much of Hollywood, Streep limits her compassion to the screen.

In “Sophie’s Choice,” she played a mother who must do the unthinkable — choose which of her children will live in a sudden selection at a concentration camp. My own mother and I saw that together, and left the theater blinded by tears, unable to fully comprehend the evil of the Holocaust.

Sadly, like so much of Hollywood, Streep limits her compassion to the screen. Real moms have been working too many hours — or not at all — trying to survive the last eight years of the Obama economy.

Real moms have seen their health care coverage premiums skyrocket, with scant coverage of their problems by a fawning mainstream media. If you are gay, or trans, or an illegal — you were celebrated in the pages of America’s major newspapers and on the big and small screen. But a mom trying to fit in 40 hours of work on an assembly line, fix dinner every night, get kids to church and school, and participate at least a little bit in her community? Not so much.

Hollywood and the media just yawn. Nothing to see here.

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I was hopeful that Hollywood, which seems so bent on healing and connecting — when it suits their purposes — would move away from the election of Donald Trump during the Golden Globes as fodder for their angst and jeers. And it went pretty well, until the Cecile B. DeMille lifetime achievement award was bestowed on Streep.

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Cue the righteous indignation as Streep preached to her diamond-drenched choir.

Streep said the performance that disturbed her the most this year was when Trump mocked a disabled reporter.

“But it was effective and it did its job,” Streep railed to the adoring glitterati seated at her feet. “It made its intended audience laugh, and show their teeth.” (That’s us, folks. Apparently, we glommed onto this alleged mocking.)

“It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter,” ranted Streep. “Someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back.”

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That is exactly what Obama did to so many Americans during his reign — but don’t expect Hollywood to see the parallel. They have been living in the bubble for so long, our lives are a curiosity and not much more, kind of like those who rubberneck at the scene of a fender-bender. “Not much to see here, folks. Move on.”

Real moms are tired and stressed. But as 2017 gets underway, they see new hope for this country with Trump as president. Real moms are hoping that premiums go down, pay goes up, and schools stop pushing progressivism and instead truly teach their children. They are hopeful that Planned Parenthood is seen as the abortion factory that it is, and that lawful immigration makes their streets safer.

Perhaps we should respond to Streep’s Golden Globes rant with the closing of our wallets.

Streep said in her diatribe, “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.”

Their other job seems to be to dismiss those who wanted change so badly that they brought about a historic election.

And if her words were, in fact, accurate — movie theaters should be filled with stories about those who are “different from us” — average moms and dads.

Sadly, as long as Hollywood armchair-quarterbacks this nation from its mansions and yachts, that is unlikely.

Real moms who have supported Streep by buying tickets to her movies for years have given her the life she now enjoys. Perhaps we should respond to her Golden Globes performance with the closing of our wallets.