Being a Celebrity: Alec Baldwin, Famous for Being an Ass
April 20, 2007 · By George Freeman
Alec Baldwin, famous for his political ranting excess—-expressing his desire to stone Rep. Henry Hyde to death, burndown the homes of Republican lawmakers, and murder their wives and children during Clinton’s impeachment; threatening to leave the United States should George W become President; referring to Dick Cheney as a terrorizing, oil thieving whore who hates the constitution—is at it again. This time his twelve year old daughter is on the receiving end of one of his temper tantrums:
The festering bad blood between movie-star exes Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger erupted Thursday when an angry phone message from Baldwin to his daughter was made public. On the recording, Baldwin can be heard berating his 11-year-old, Ireland, “You are a rude, thoughtless little pig.”
“You don’t have the brains or the decency as a human being,” he says, apparently upset that she did not answer her phone for a planned call.
“I don’t give a damn that you’re 12 years old, or 11 years old, or that you’re a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn’t care about what you do as far as I’m concerned. You have humiliated me for the last time with this phone.”
He goes on to say that he plans to fly from New York to Los Angeles “for the day just to straighten you out on this issue.”
You can listen to the message, here.
Baldwin is nuts! He’s become such a mouthpiece for fringe paranoid politics, hopefully this will get lots of play and knock him out of the mainstream.
Too bad some of the more notable Al Gore celebrity groupies don’t likewise implode.
One of the reasons I visit regressive (well, you don’t like being called “progressive”, so I assume you prefer its opposite) blogs is the insight I gain into your collective thought process. There’s a pattern I find particularly fascinating that seems to run something like this:
a) Begin with a complex and potentially unpleasant hypothesis that’s a little too uncomfortable to address face on. For example, “Bush’s Iraq war is a nightmarish failure”, or “Gee, there sure is a lot of complicated evidence in that IPCC Report that seems to suggest anthropogenic global warming may be occurring”.
b) Find a spokersperson for that hypothesis.
c) Mock them.
d) Ta dah! Hypothesis defeated, and without the necessity of dealing with tiresome and depressing facts!
Al Gore’s home may or may not use up more power than George Bush’s homes? David Suzuki uses a diesel power bus? Excellent! Obviously, therefore, the science behind IPCC is false and we don’t have to worry about global warming.
Excellent case study above, George…many thanks. Alec Balwin lost his temper with his 11 year old daughter? Thank God! All that stuff he says about Iraq and Bush must be wrong!
It’s a bit primitive as a dialectic, but it seems to work well for you. Carry on.
You nailed it Barbie.
Having a full appreciation for reality requires a sense of humour. The problem with celebrity advocate is that they take themselves so seriously, and ONLY themselves seriously.
In dealing with the uber earnest, it’s best to poke fun at them.
Baldwin calls his 11 year old daughter a thoughtless pig for “humiliating” him by not answering her phone. Not only does that not make any sense—if he hadn’t left a message, he wouldn’t be humiliated—it validates what a good many people already suspect to be true about him from his political diatribes: he’s spiritually unhinged.
This is nothing new with celebrity expert-on-everything advocates. The best way to reply to a celebrity advocate is to mock them; especially, and deservedly, when they get all hissy and bad tempered more times than not—a regular occurrence for Baldwin.
Have you ever had an 11 year old daughter, George?
No. I didn’t know they could stay in the womb than long, let alone for a man.
If you are trying to argue that because I don’t have, or have had, an eleven year old daughter—that I don’t understand what it’s like to raise them—you’re making a weak argument in defence of Baldwin. For one thing, he doesn’t raise her, she lives with her mother. For another thing, does he honestly expect to get an eleven year to WANT to talk to him by calling her a thoughtless pig, threatening to come “out there” and straighten her out?
On the other hand, not only is what he did totally brainless, especially when it was obvious that this sort of expose could happen, there are lots of father’s with eleven year old daughters who don’t act like that; let alone trash talk their daughter’s mother at every opportunity.
Sure, he was just blowing off steam, but that’s exactly his problem, more times than not.
I guess I was making two points. One was that 11 year daughters can be incredibly annoying. The other is that linking an actor’s blowup at his kid to the accuracy of his perspective on current affairs is silly - as I suspect you’d acknowledge when not blogging.
I despise Alec Baldwin and his clan of leftists. In this case though I also think it was horrible of Kim Bassinger to release this tape. It is certainly not in the best interest of their child. Baldwin is still this child’s father and it is still in her interest to have a relationship with her father.Even one as arrogant and rude as Baldwin. Bassinger is trying to get full custody. That is wrong. Baldwin’s words are as usual inappropriate, but he should still be allowed to have a relationship with his daughter.
Roy is right. The ex is just trying to humiliate the great leader of the Film Actors Guild.
I’m sure they can be annoying. Some people can handle it, some cannot.
Blowing up is nothing new for Baldwin. That’s mostly what he does in his rants and he repeatedly gets a platform to do it on; so he deserves to be mocked.
He should have some humility and stick to acting.
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I posted this comment at ThePolitic.com: I despise Alec Baldwin and his clan of leftists. In this case though I also think it was horrible of Kim Basinger to release this tape. It is certainly not in the best interest of their child. Baldwin is still this child’s father and it is still
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