I don't think she called on Hollywood to save the country, she called on the press. I listened to the speech when I saw the 700th Facebook post about it. Really - there isn't much in that speech to disagree on. It was fairly tame.
There really isn't even a reason for Trump supporters or Trump himself to be mad:
There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can't get it out of my head because it wasn't in a movie. It was real life.
And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage.That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists. Because we're going to need them going forward. And they'll need us to safeguard the truth.
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/news/a19828/meryl-street-golden-globes-speech-transcript/ (first "transcript" that came up on a Google search)
A lot of opinion. A few paragraphs of jabber at the front and end that I didn't cut and paste. But I pasted the meat and potatoes regarding Trump.
- Trump did imitate a disabled person
- Trump does outrank the person in privilege, power and ability to fight back
- It did play well to Trump supporters
- Trump's instinct is to humiliate and mock people he disagrees with
- Violence does beget violence. Disrespect more disrespect.
- And journalists are a foundation of a democratic nation
Really, not a lot to disagree with. You don't have to like the tone, certainly it wasn't meant to be flattering to Trump. But it wasn't controversial statmeents.