This week’s Mainstream Media Scream shows an unusual take on Golden Globe winner Meryl Streep’s slap at President-elect Trump. In it, Whoopie Goldberg, on her show The View, makes Hollywood liberals out to be the victims of the right.
From Monday’s The View:
“Stop using Hollywood as this bad word. Let me remind everybody that in the ’70s, and prior to that, Hollywood was really sort of run by the right-leaning groups. That’s how we ended up with McCarthyism and all of these so-called lefties being rounded up and eaten, basically, for their beliefs.
“Secondly, a lot of actors have always come from real life, so they have a different thing, a different way of looking at stuff. So, stop painting this idea. Because, you know, harking back to the conversation we had, I’ve been thinking about it, and I remember that I can’t name one right-leaning person who has ever lost their job for being a right-leaning person, but I can name you at least 15, 20 people who lost their ability to make a living, including myself, because of right-leaning folks saying, oh, you said that, you shouldn’t be saying that.
“So my point is, it’s not a Hollywood thing. This is people talking about people. Nobody’s afraid, as you can see, to say what they want. But Danny Glover ate a lot of poop during the Bush administration, as did Sean Penn.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: “Yes, the problem today is that Hollywood is run by conservatives who supposedly suppressed liberals decades ago and still do today. Donald Trump and those disturbed by Meryl Streep’s lecture have a lot better grip on reality.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
