Oscar Winner Meryl Streep Declares 'We’re all Africans'

February 12, 2016

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The Context

Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep recently made some interesting comments at the Berlin Film Festival.

“I don't know very much honestly, about the Mideast, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. And the thing that I notice is that they're all --- there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And after all, we're all from Africa originally. You know, we're all Berliners. We're all Africans, really,” Streep said.

Alrighty, then.

Streep’s statements just might prove the longer you play make believe in Hollywood, the harder it is to live in the real world.

I’m Not a U.N. Ambassador But I Play One on TV

According to Glenn, these delusions of expertise might put the first man on Mars.

“Can I tell you something, this is why actors are so arrogant. Because there will be at some point, Matt Damon will be thinking to himself, 'Well, I was on Mars," Glenn said. “I mean, I know I didn't really do it, but I studied all of it. I mean, I practically flew a shuttle by myself.' That's what they think because they have dabbled and talked to experts, that they're an expert at everything.”

You Must Have Stayed at a Holiday Inn Express

There is a philosophy out there that says “fake it ‘till you make it,” and Glenn thinks that might be where Streep is coming from on this one.

"Look, I really don't know anything about the Mideast, but I have played --- it's like, "I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night," Glenn said.

What’s With the Accent?

To make her comments sound more important, Streep seemed to take on a light British accent.

“Stop for a second. Stop. Stop. Can you play that again? Has anybody noticed her fake accent? What is that?” Glenn asked.

Glenn couldn't resist trying on the accent for size.

“I'm not English, but I've lived in the United States my whole life, but I really would like to sound a little smarter by speaking the Queen's English,” Glenn said.

Common Sense Bottom Line

Researching roles and playing them on film does not make one an expert --- nor does an affected British accent.

Listen to this segment from The Glenn Beck Program:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors:

GLENN: Okay. Pat, can you play the Meryl Streep line. And give me some context on this.

PAT: They -- they were in a panel discussion. And she was just one of the panelists. And, you know, they're talking about progressive issues like progressives are wont to do. And she came up with this really deep statement. I think this is going to move you a little bit.

MERYL: I don't know very much honestly about the Mideast, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures.

PAT: Oh. I mean, she's qualified then. She's played a lot of different people.

GLENN: Can I tell you something, this is why actors are so arrogant. Because there will be at some point, Matt Damon will be thinking to himself, "Well, I was on Mars."

PAT: I know NASA. I know rocket science. I lived on Mars for a year and a half.

GLENN: I mean, I know I didn't really do it. But I studied all of it. I mean, I practically flew a shuttle by myself. That's what they think because they have dabbled and talked to experts, that they're an expert at everything.

"Look, I really don't know anything about the Mideast, but I have played -- it's like, "I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night." But now we haven't even got to her quote.

PAT: No.

GLENN: But we'll get to that in just a second.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: Back in a minute.

(OUT AT 9:33AM)

GLENN: I'm going to tell you -- we're going to be at the Spartanburg County rally for Cruz today at 12:30 Eastern time. That's the Beacon Drive-In in Spartanburg. This is -- this is quite an amazing thing. The people here are truly remarkable. There are about 10,000 supporters that have come in from all over the state, all over the area. They have 80 full-time people that have volunteered their time that is staying at a place called Camp Cruz. And I met people this morning. I was at a rally early this morning. There's people from Tennessee. They've driven hours to to volunteer their time. They've knocked on almost 100,000 doors, like 99,937 doors. Or something like that. I can't remember. And they're expecting their 100,000th door to be knocked on today. I'm going to go door-knocking in a couple of hours. And it's snowing here. That's how much we're committed to it.

But it's an amazing thing. They're making about 25,000 phone calls a day. This is ten times the ground game that Ted Cruz had in Iowa. And that was an impressive ground game. This is going to be a very close race, and it's going to take every single person coming out voting and talking to their friends, their neighbors, about the Constitution. Not Ted Cruz: About the Constitution and returning to constitutional principles.

All right. Let me finish off this Meryl Streep thing. She was at a conference. And she said, "Look, I don't know much about the Middle East, but I have played people from the Middle East on TV."

MERYL: I don't know very much about -- honestly about the Middle East.

GLENN: Stop for a second. Stop. Stop. Can you play that again? Has anybody noticed her fake accent? What is that?

JEFFY: Yes, it's agonizing.

GLENN: I just -- I would like you to know --

PAT: I don't know --

GLENN: I'm not English, but I've lived in the United States my whole life, but I really would like to sound a little smarter by speaking the Queen's English.

MERYL: I don't know very much -- honestly about the Mideast. And -- and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. And the thing that I notice is that they're all -- there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And after all, we're all from Africa originally.

PAT: What? No.

MERYL: You know, we're all Berliners. We're all Africans, really.

GLENN: We're all Berliners. We're all Africans.

PAT: Do you know Berlin is not in Africa, pumpkin? Do you understand?

GLENN: Well, I don't know about geography. But I have played people from all over the map.

PAT: I love that. Because she's obviously going to the JFK thing.

GLENN: Yes, yes.

PAT: (foreign language) whatever it was he -- (foreign language). And he was trying to pander to the Germans at the time or whatever.

GLENN: And it worked.

PAT: But she goes to, "We're all Berliners. We're all Africans." What?

GLENN: Well, I like the way she does it. She's so pretentious, and she doesn't even know it.

You know, I've played many people before. And, you know, when it comes down to it, we're really all from Africa. I mean, we're all Africans, really.

PAT: No. No.

GLENN: These people are so -- they're so skin-crawly.

PAT: Oh, they are. And then she kind of -- I think she's looking for sort of somebody to help her out because she's looking around the room and going like, "Right? I mean, we have all these people who can comment and --

GLENN: You little people.

MERYL: So I think we -- look, we have a critic on our jury. We have a director on our jury. We --

PAT: Will one of you not help me out on this? We're from Africa. That's all the same.

GLENN: We all have a New Zealand tattoo, a native New Zealand tattoo on our faces. Because that's what we all are. And we have a critic here. A director. And a HEP gaffer. And the gaffer -- gaffers are almost like giraffes. They both have a "G" at the beginning of it, so we're all really giraffes too. Isn't that right? Will anyone go with me on that?

PAT: We're all really giraffes. I like that better, actually.

(laughter)

GLENN: I mean, I -- I have a dog, but what's the difference between a dog and a hyena and a polar bear? There's really nothing. They're all animals. And they're all from different parts of the world. And I've never been an animal. I have had animalistic tendencies in some of my movie characters that I have played. After all, I didn't actually boil the bunny. But it was somebody that was old and aging like me that played that role at one point.

PAT: Glenn Close, Meryl Streep. Same thing, right?

GLENN: The same thing. We're both old and aging actors. Nobody plays attention to us anymore. And we're both really pretty pretentious at this point. And it's only because we like to be like Lady HEP Judy Dench. Why don't they call me Lady Meryl, Meryl Streep.

STU: Dame.

GLENN: Yes, Dame Meryl Streep. You can call me Dame Meryl Streep. That's why I'm working on this accent.

STU: Is she trying to do one of those conception in what paradigm type of thing?

PAT: Yes.

STU: Because I think what she's trying -- is she trying to say that there are no nations?

GLENN: Yes.

STU: Like, we're all humans, and there are no nations. And that's a false construct. Is it one of those type of --

GLENN: Yes, it is.

PAT: She's trying to beat this guy.

VOICE: You know, under whose conception? Under what paradigm? I'm just resisting. What am I resisting? I don't know. The collectivization of manufacture, the institutionalization of the human psyche.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: Shut up. Shut up.

PAT: Manufacture.

GLENN: What is it that I'm really rebelling against? I don't know.

PAT: I don't know.

GLENN: I love that. What is it that I'm really saying here? I don't know. Perhaps you know --

PAT: It's all artificial constructs anyway.

GLENN: I'm saying things, but they don't really mean anything. But if I say, "I don't know. Maybe, you know, it's kind of something that you'll say, "Oh, oh, oh, I know exactly what he's saying. And you'll make it up in your head. And then you'll think, boy, he's so smart."

PAT: So brilliant. So brilliant.

GLENN: And we'll boil our giraffes.

Featured Image: Meryl Streep attends the 'Hail, Caesar!' premiere during the 66th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Berlinale Palace on February 11, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

Antifa isn’t “leaderless” — It’s an organized machine of violence

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The mob rises where men of courage fall silent. The lesson from Portland, Chicago, and other blue cities is simple: Appeasing radicals doesn’t buy peace — it only rents humiliation.

Parts of America, like Portland and Chicago, now resemble occupied territory. Progressive city governments have surrendered control to street militias, leaving citizens, journalists, and even federal officers to face violent anarchists without protection.

Take Portland, where Antifa has terrorized the city for more than 100 consecutive nights. Federal officers trying to keep order face nightly assaults while local officials do nothing. Independent journalists, such as Nick Sortor, have even been arrested for documenting the chaos. Sortor and Blaze News reporter Julio Rosas later testified at the White House about Antifa’s violence — testimony that corporate media outlets buried.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened.

Chicago offers the same grim picture. Federal agents have been stalked, ambushed, and denied backup from local police while under siege from mobs. Calls for help went unanswered, putting lives in danger. This is more than disorder; it is open defiance of federal authority and a violation of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.

A history of violence

For years, the legacy media and left-wing think tanks have portrayed Antifa as “decentralized” and “leaderless.” The opposite is true. Antifa is organized, disciplined, and well-funded. Groups like Rose City Antifa in Oregon, the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club in Texas, and Jane’s Revenge operate as coordinated street militias. Legal fronts such as the National Lawyers Guild provide protection, while crowdfunding networks and international supporters funnel money directly to the movement.

The claim that Antifa lacks structure is a convenient myth — one that’s cost Americans dearly.

History reminds us what happens when mobs go unchecked. The French Revolution, Weimar Germany, Mao’s Red Guards — every one began with chaos on the streets. But it wasn’t random. Today’s radicals follow the same playbook: Exploit disorder, intimidate opponents, and seize moral power while the state looks away.

Dismember the dragon

The Trump administration’s decision to designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization was long overdue. The label finally acknowledged what citizens already knew: Antifa functions as a militant enterprise, recruiting and radicalizing youth for coordinated violence nationwide.

But naming the threat isn’t enough. The movement’s financiers, organizers, and enablers must also face justice. Every dollar that funds Antifa’s destruction should be traced, seized, and exposed.

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This fight transcends party lines. It’s not about left versus right; it’s about civilization versus anarchy. When politicians and judges excuse or ignore mob violence, they imperil the republic itself. Americans must reject silence and cowardice while street militias operate with impunity.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened. The violence in Portland and Chicago is deliberate, not spontaneous. If America fails to confront it decisively, the price won’t just be broken cities — it will be the erosion of the republic itself.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

URGENT: Supreme Court case could redefine religious liberty

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The state is effectively silencing professionals who dare speak truths about gender and sexuality, redefining faith-guided speech as illegal.

This week, free speech is once again on the line before the U.S. Supreme Court. At stake is whether Americans still have the right to talk about faith, morality, and truth in their private practice without the government’s permission.

The case comes out of Colorado, where lawmakers in 2019 passed a ban on what they call “conversion therapy.” The law prohibits licensed counselors from trying to change a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation, including their behaviors or gender expression. The law specifically targets Christian counselors who serve clients attempting to overcome gender dysphoria and not fall prey to the transgender ideology.

The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The law does include one convenient exception. Counselors are free to “assist” a person who wants to transition genders but not someone who wants to affirm their biological sex. In other words, you can help a child move in one direction — one that is in line with the state’s progressive ideology — but not the other.

Think about that for a moment. The state is saying that a counselor can’t even discuss changing behavior with a client. Isn’t that the whole point of counseling?

One‑sided freedom

Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor in Colorado Springs, has been one of the victims of this blatant attack on the First Amendment. Chiles has dedicated her practice to helping clients dealing with addiction, trauma, sexuality struggles, and gender dysphoria. She’s also a Christian who serves patients seeking guidance rooted in biblical teaching.

Before 2019, she could counsel minors according to her faith. She could talk about biblical morality, identity, and the path to wholeness. When the state outlawed that speech, she stopped. She followed the law — and then she sued.

Her case, Chiles v. Salazar, is now before the Supreme Court. Justices heard oral arguments on Tuesday. The question: Is counseling a form of speech or merely a government‑regulated service?

If the court rules the wrong way, it won’t just silence therapists. It could muzzle pastors, teachers, parents — anyone who believes in truth grounded in something higher than the state.

Censored belief

I believe marriage between a man and a woman is ordained by God. I believe that family — mother, father, child — is central to His design for humanity.

I believe that men and women are created in God’s image, with divine purpose and eternal worth. Gender isn’t an accessory; it’s part of who we are.

I believe the command to “be fruitful and multiply” still stands, that the power to create life is sacred, and that it belongs within marriage between a man and a woman.

And I believe that when we abandon these principles — when we treat sex as recreation, when we dissolve families, when we forget our vows — society fractures.

Are those statements controversial now? Maybe. But if this case goes against Chiles, those statements and others could soon be illegal to say aloud in public.

Faith on trial

In Colorado today, a counselor cannot sit down with a 15‑year‑old who’s struggling with gender identity and say, “You were made in God’s image, and He does not make mistakes.” That is now considered hate speech.

That’s the “freedom” the modern left is offering — freedom to affirm, but never to question. Freedom to comply, but never to dissent. The same movement that claims to champion tolerance now demands silence from anyone who disagrees. The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The real test

No matter what happens at the Supreme Court, we cannot stop speaking the truth. These beliefs aren’t political slogans. For me, they are the product of years of wrestling, searching, and learning through pain and grace what actually leads to peace. For us, they are the fundamental principles that lead to a flourishing life. We cannot balk at standing for truth.

Maybe that’s why God allows these moments — moments when believers are pushed to the wall. They force us to ask hard questions: What is true? What is worth standing for? What is worth dying for — and living for?

If we answer those questions honestly, we’ll find not just truth, but freedom.

The state doesn’t grant real freedom — and it certainly isn’t defined by Colorado legislators. Real freedom comes from God. And the day we forget that, the First Amendment will mean nothing at all.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

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What our response to Israel reveals about us

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I have been honored to receive the Defender of Israel Award from Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The Jerusalem Post recently named me one of the strongest Christian voices in support of Israel.

And yet, my support is not blind loyalty. It’s not a rubber stamp for any government or policy. I support Israel because I believe it is my duty — first as a Christian, but even if I weren’t a believer, I would still support her as a man of reason, morality, and common sense.

Because faith isn’t required to understand this: Israel’s existence is not just about one nation’s survival — it is about the survival of Western civilization itself.

It is a lone beacon of shared values in the Middle East. It is a bulwark standing against radical Islam — the same evil that seeks to dismantle our own nation from within.

And my support is not rooted in politics. It is rooted in something simpler and older than politics: a people’s moral and historical right to their homeland, and their right to live in peace.

Israel has that right — and the right to defend herself against those who openly, repeatedly vow her destruction.

Let’s make it personal: if someone told me again and again that they wanted to kill me and my entire family — and then acted on that threat — would I not defend myself? Wouldn’t you? If Hamas were Canada, and we were Israel, and they did to us what Hamas has done to them, there wouldn’t be a single building left standing north of our border. That’s not a question of morality.

That’s just the truth. All people — every people — have a God-given right to protect themselves. And Israel is doing exactly that.

My support for Israel’s right to finish the fight against Hamas comes after eighty years of rejected peace offers and failed two-state solutions. Hamas has never hidden its mission — the eradication of Israel. That’s not a political disagreement.

That’s not a land dispute. That is an annihilationist ideology. And while I do not believe this is America’s war to fight, I do believe — with every fiber of my being — that it is Israel’s right, and moral duty, to defend her people.

Criticism of military tactics is fair. That’s not antisemitism. But denying Israel’s right to exist, or excusing — even celebrating — the barbarity of Hamas? That’s something far darker.

We saw it on October 7th — the face of evil itself. Women and children slaughtered. Babies burned alive. Innocent people raped and dragged through the streets. And now, to see our own fellow citizens march in defense of that evil… that is nothing short of a moral collapse.

If the chants in our streets were, “Hamas, return the hostages — Israel, stop the bombing,” we could have a conversation.

But that’s not what we hear.

What we hear is open sympathy for genocidal hatred. And that is a chasm — not just from decency, but from humanity itself. And here lies the danger: that same hatred is taking root here — in Dearborn, in London, in Paris — not as horror, but as heroism. If we are not vigilant, the enemy Israel faces today will be the enemy the free world faces tomorrow.

This isn’t about politics. It’s about truth. It’s about the courage to call evil by its name and to say “Never again” — and mean it.

And you don’t have to open a Bible to understand this. But if you do — if you are a believer — then this issue cuts even deeper. Because the question becomes: what did God promise, and does He keep His word?

He told Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you.” He promised to make Abraham the father of many nations and to give him “the whole land of Canaan.” And though Abraham had other sons, God reaffirmed that promise through Isaac. And then again through Isaac’s son, Jacob — Israel — saying: “The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I give to you and to your descendants after you.”

That’s an everlasting promise.

And from those descendants came a child — born in Bethlehem — who claimed to be the Savior of the world. Jesus never rejected His title as “son of David,” the great King of Israel.

He said plainly that He came “for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” And when He returns, Scripture says He will return as “the Lion of the tribe of Judah.” And where do you think He will go? Back to His homeland — Israel.

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And what will He find when He gets there? His brothers — or his brothers’ enemies? Will the roads where He once walked be preserved? Or will they lie in rubble, as Gaza does today? If what He finds looks like the aftermath of October 7th, then tell me — what will be my defense as a Christian?

Some Christians argue that God’s promises to Israel have been transferred exclusively to the Church. I don’t believe that. But even if you do, then ask yourself this: if we’ve inherited the promises, do we not also inherit the land? Can we claim the birthright and then, like Esau, treat it as worthless when the world tries to steal it?

So, when terrorists come to slaughter Israelis simply for living in the land promised to Abraham, will we stand by? Or will we step forward — into the line of fire — and say,

“Take me instead”?

Because this is not just about Israel’s right to exist.

It’s about whether we still know the difference between good and evil.

It’s about whether we still have the courage to stand where God stands.

And if we cannot — if we will not — then maybe the question isn’t whether Israel will survive. Maybe the question is whether we will.

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