"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