# Hey meryl streep, you are a play-actor, nothing more

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep-you-are-a-play-actor-nothing-more/776718>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 9, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep-you-are-a-play-actor-nothing-more/776718 "2017-01-09T14:46:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 35

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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep-you-are-a-play-actor-nothing-more/776718/681 "2017-02-01T23:35:09Z")

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> [@Superdude](#):
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> Did anyone besides me read this

Lemme stop you there, and say probably not.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep-you-are-a-play-actor-nothing-more/776718/682 "2017-02-01T23:35:51Z")

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> [@koufax](#):
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> Catch him in a lie, and go after him…that is their job. but they need to have facts straight, not tweet something out and have to retract it later.

How ironic.

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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep-you-are-a-play-actor-nothing-more/776718/683 "2017-02-02T00:15:48Z")

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> [@monstro](#):
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> She may be a “play actor” (whatever the fuck that means), but at least she’s not a [liar](http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/313267-trump-fires-back-at-overrated-meryl-streep).
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> Everyone in the world knows he was mocking the guy’s physical handicap. Trump supporters supposedly like the guy because he “tells it like it is.” But he doesn’t! He hides behind bullshit excuses that even Stevie Wonder can see through.
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> For once, I’d like Trump to stop taking his various beefs with celebrities to Twitter. Even if I were inclined to agree with you that people like Meryl Streep need to STFU (and I don’t), it says a lot about Trump’s character that he can never resist taking the bait.
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> He’s supposed to be the troll-in-chief, right? So why does he let other people troll him so easily? Sad!

Because besides being a liar, he is also a two year old and an insane one at that?

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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep-you-are-a-play-actor-nothing-more/776718/684 "2017-02-02T00:17:41Z")

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> [@Monty](#):
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> How ironic.

The only thing they need to do at this point, to be correct, is to simply answer everything he says with “That’s bullshit”

He lies so fast and furious, so yuge, so bigly, no fact checker can keep up with him. They’ve tried.

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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep-you-are-a-play-actor-nothing-more/776718/685 "2017-02-02T00:20:03Z")

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> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> Trump has a history of intentionally insulting disabled people who criticize him. Why’s it so hard to believe that he mocked one?

It’s hard to deny, when the video of it happening is still out there on the internet.

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