Why She Screamed: Meryl Streep’s Complex Bond With Hillary Clinton

[uawchild]

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Source: NY Times

PHILADELPHIA — Meryl Streep, the most accomplished, awarded and chameleonic actress of her generation, once confessed something approaching envy for Hillary Clinton: For women of her age, Ms. Streep said, Mrs. Clinton was the yardstick by which they inevitably measured their lives — sometimes flatteringly, sometimes not.

On Tuesday night, Ms. Streep took to the floor of the Democratic National Convention here to make the case that Mrs. Clinton, the object of that admiration, worry and judgment, was the right choice for the presidency.

“What does it take to be the first female anything?” Ms. Streep asked. “It takes grit and it takes grace.”

Ms. Streep appeared on stage shortly before 11 p.m. with raised fists and a loud, primal and triumphant scream seemingly delivered on behalf of women everywhere.

Throughout her speech, the 67-year-old Ms. Streep sought to place Mrs. Clinton, who is 68, in the pantheon of pioneering American women, from Amelia Earhart and Harriet Tubman to Sandra Day O’Connor and Geraldine Ferraro. She dwelled the longest on Deborah Sampson, a woman who disguised herself as a man to serve in the Continental Army. Ms. Sampson was shot while serving and removed the musket ball herself to avoid revealing her gender.


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Let's celebrate the history that was made last night!

Hillary is THE latest breaking news story TODAY.

[niyad]

1. k and r

[2naSalit]

2. I watched her speech and I didn't see a SCREAM...

I saw something less than a scream and I object to all women who raise their voices to express relief or exasperation described as screaming and other demeaning terms for not acting in a manner of "knowing her place" as a subservient class of human.

Fuck those who use those terms.

[erpowers]

9. I Did Not Either

I also missed the scream. Before I saw your post I just assumed I missed the scream.

[2naSalit]

10. I watched that whole segment and

at no point did I hear/see her "scream". Screw the M$M and their willful compliance with the war on women.

[LoverOfLiberty]

13. Its not just women

Remember a guy named Howard Dean?

[2naSalit]

14. True that.

[ffr]

3. Solidifying and backing up the Real One.

The person most of us have known all along. The good person who serves and fights for those who support her, all of us.

The RW can smear democrats by repeating negative words all they want, but it CAN'T change facts. We love Hillary. We love Bill. We love Nancy. We love Harry. They're all great public servants that we admire.

HRC is just that much stronger and better. She's breaking the glass ceiling. AND rightfully so. She's a wonderful person and will make a great first female POTUS.

We just have to make it happen.

[True Dough]

4. Streep and Howard Deen would make beautiful babies!

And all their neighbors would know when the baby-making process was underway.

[forest444]

5. I want to see her portray Hillary on the big screen,

Why does an elitist, school milk-snatching war criminal pedophile like Thatcher get Meryl Streep to portray her, and a brave and decent person like Hillary can't?

[ananda]

6. I liked her scream and her speech!

I didn't know that about Deborah Sampson.
That was a cool learning moment.

[0rganism]

7. i appreciated the shout-out to Shirley Chisholm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm
first black woman elected to congress (1968), helped create the WIC program
first black woman to run for nomination of a major political party (1972)

strong, independent, pioneering, unashamedly liberal, one of the best ever

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. Yes! Shirley Chisholm was a childhood heroine.

I wanted to be her when I grew up.

[getting old in mke]

8. I do believe

that is was more of a "squee" than "scream". Pure excitement.

(On another front, if you haven't, go watch the 538 short documentary on the "Dean Scream" to hear it in context. I remember even when it happened going "Hasn't any one of the folks covering the campaign gone to a church with an impassioned preacher?&quot

[sheshe2]

12. K&R

She was awesome!

[mcar]

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