Foreign State Behind Streep's Film Career?

Donald Trump's transition team suggested this morning that Meryl Streep's overrated reputation as an actress maybe the result of foreign meddling in American film criticism.  "This goes back decades," commented Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway.  "The fact that a middling actress, albeit with a knack for affecting foreign accents, has earned such an elevated status and been nominated for so many of the film industry's most prestigious rewards shows the calculated efforts of a foreign power determined to undermine America's aesthetic judgement."  The Trump camp has been hard-pressed to name a foreign state that would have had any particular interest in promoting Ms. Streep's career, or undermining America's aesthetic judgement, but Conway promised that President-elect Trump will hold a press conference "very soon" where he will identify the foreign power that "inflicted Meryl Streep American film-going public.   Conway had no comment on the veracity of a story that appeared on Breitbart this morning under the headline, "Kim Jong-Un Congratulates 'Soul-mate' Streep on her Golden Globe Lifetime Achievement Reward."