Thatcher’s Friends Slam Streep in ‘Iron Lady’

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Perhaps the filmmakers behind the new Margaret Thatcher biopic “The Iron Lady,” with big-screen queen Meryl Streep playing the titular part, can at least be assured that their characterization of Great Britain’s first female prime minister didn’t overly pander to its famous subject, in that some of her friends are none too pleased with the project.

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“The Iron Lady,” a new biopic starring Streep, 62, as Thatcher, was described as “rubbish” and an “insult” by friends and family of the 86-year-old former leader.

Lord Tim Bell, who was a key PR adviser to Thatcher throughout the 1980s, told The (London) Daily Telegraph, “I can’t be bothered to sensationalize this rubbish. I can’t see the point of this film.”

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By buduranus2, November 17, 2011 at 3:27 pm Link to this comment
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The “titular” part? What, are we in eighth grade here? Really bad form.

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By drbhelthi, November 17, 2011 at 2:10 pm Link to this comment

Such movies are made and released on order of the super-rich Zionists who rigged the Hitler movement which led to WWII, and the “false flag” murder of several million, innocent Jewish and other folk. While the movie presentations of the super-rich Zionists always display however much accuracy, with whichever focus they select, their movie presentations are always less than inclusive.

A limited, but accurate presentation of Thatcher´s demonic personality, in her association with super-rich oil moguls, is presented by Greg Palast in his recently released volume, “Vultures Picnic”. Palast provides some of the inside story on the frauds of the Zionist-NAZI-types against Euro-Asian oil-lands, and in an interesting manner.

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