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Awed Actress Meryl Streep 'Star-Struck' by Barack and Michelle Obama

By
Brent Baker
January 12, 2010 - 11:41am
"Hollywood actress Meryl Streep has admitted that the only person she has been star-struck by is U.S. President Barack Obama," an India Times item posted on Sunday [1] reported, quoting the actress: "I went to the White House and was star-struck by our President and First Lady. Although I was also impressed by Bruce Springsteen who was there as well."

The unbylined item, which James Taranto highlighted in his "Best of the Web Today [2]" for the Wall Street Journal's opinion page, related how "Streep also believes that Barack is more than capable of making the right political choices for the U.S." She gushed:

I think it is thrilling to have someone who is thoughtful and can articulate with a certain amount of passion and dispassion, the necessary choices that we have in the world.

- Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
Source URL: http://mrc.org/bias-alerts/awed-actress-meryl-streep-star-struck-barack-and-michelle-obama

Links:
[1] http://movies.indiatimes.com/news-gossip/international/Meryl-Streep-in-awe-of-Barack-Obama/articleshow/5430064.cms
[2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703652104574652314257189566.html
[3] http://mrc.org/biasalerts
[4] http://mrc.org/division/news-analysis-division
[5] http://mrc.org/tags/liberalmediabias
[6] http://mrc.org/tags/biasalert-0
[7] http://mrc.org/tags/celebrities
[8] http://mrc.org/tags/obamawatch
[9] http://mrc.org/tags/movies-0
[10] http://mrc.org/tags/merylstreep
[11] http://www.tellthetruth2012.org