Piers Morgan (!) piles on Meryl Streep

If you watched the Golden Globes awards last night (and really, why would you?) then you saw actress Meryl Streep lauch and anti-Trump tirade that not even Piers Morgan could stomach.

And do you notice what an incredibly diverse group of actors and actresses they are?

"Help! Help! I'm being repressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!" Read the whole thing.

But another problem is that Donald Trump personally took to Twitter (my, does that get old) to counter-attack, calling Streep "overrated" and sending other darts and arrows.

Donald, here is my unsolicited advice: SHUT UP! You're going to be the doggone president in only 11 days, fer cryin' out loud. For gosh sakes, try, at least try to be presidential. Besides, unlikely figures like Piers are taking your side anyway:

... let’s move to what Streep said next: ‘Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.’

At this point, I laughed out loud with incredulity.

Not at the words themselves, which are laudable.

No, it was at the hypocrisy.

You’d be hard-pushed to find an industry that encourages more disrespect and violence than Hollywood.

A place where rich powerful people make billions of dollars by regularly pandering to the lowest common denominators of sexism, racism, homophobia and misogyny.

And happily exploit ever more hideous, graphic violence to make a fast, easy buck. [Yes, that's the Hollywood gun culture - DS]

And seethe from every tinsel-encrusted pore with the very kind of nasty, power-based bullying that Meryl Streep claims to be so incensed by in Trump.

So great though her censorious words indisputably are, they would be perhaps better directed at her own back yard. 

To highlight just one example of Streep’s shocking hypocrisy, what about the 2003 Oscars when she leaped to her feet and gave child rapist Roman Polanski a standing ovation after he was announced as winner of Best Director for The Pianist?

There is a reason that presidents are supposed to act as if they are above the fray, Donald. It's because the fray does not suit the office. Stop snitfully twittering personal defenses and mind the store.

Update: Heh!