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Actor Alec Baldwin announces: "I am a conservative"!
RightWingBob.com ^ | 03/05/2009 | RWB

Posted on 03/05/2009 8:40:03 AM PST by Merciful_Friend

That is, he would if he had the ability to think coherently and extend his appreciation of things right in front of his face to his perception of things in general. In recent statements on the local news channel New York 1, the actor Alec Baldwin pleaded for tax breaks that are provided to film and TV production companies in New York to be continued, in the name of business, jobs and overall revenue for the state and city.

In an interview on “The Road to City Hall,” actor Alec Baldwin is calling on state leaders to renew a tax credit for the TV and film industry.

The star of the NBC comedy “30 Rock” told NY1 political anchor Dominic Carter that without the tax break, TV programs that are produced locally will pack up and move to Hollywood.

“If these tax breaks, I’m telling you right now, if these tax breaks are not reinstated into the budget, film production in this town is going to collapse and television production is going to collapse and it's all going to go to California,” said Baldwin.


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KEYWORDS: alec; asheadsistails; baldwin; inneedosomerestraint; liberals
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He understands how tax breaks help his business and how his business helps the economy. But I guess he doesn't get how this principle works for everyone else too.
1 posted on 03/05/2009 8:40:04 AM PST by Merciful_Friend
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To: Merciful_Friend

scumbag has been


2 posted on 03/05/2009 8:41:59 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Merciful_Friend
Like some of our representatives he's a convenient conservative.
He's a conservative when it's convenient.
3 posted on 03/05/2009 8:42:16 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Merciful_Friend

Tax breaks for me but not for thee...


4 posted on 03/05/2009 8:42:36 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: Merciful_Friend

Well Baldlose, I’m sure your messiah will make a concession for you...that’s how communism works, right comrade!


5 posted on 03/05/2009 8:43:01 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: dirtboy

If he’s a conservative. I’m a liberal. I wan’t want to conserve the current system, I want to tear it down


6 posted on 03/05/2009 8:43:30 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: Merciful_Friend

Isn’t it amazing how people convert when they are hit in the wallet?


7 posted on 03/05/2009 8:43:33 AM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: Merciful_Friend

What should he care since he’s left the country!


8 posted on 03/05/2009 8:43:41 AM PST by A. Morgan (Every night I pray that Rezko and Blago roll over on Obama!)
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To: Merciful_Friend

Conservative relative to what, Tina Fey? That doesn’t say much.


9 posted on 03/05/2009 8:43:45 AM PST by ksm1
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To: Merciful_Friend

Alec Baldwin is unpatriotic. < /Biden >


10 posted on 03/05/2009 8:43:47 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Merciful_Friend

“If these tax breaks, I’m telling you right now, if these tax breaks are not reinstated into the budget, film production in this town is going to collapse and television production is going to collapse and it’s all going to go to California,” said Baldwin.”

Did....(no way)....Di....Did a Socialist Democrat just admit that tax breaks are a good thing?


11 posted on 03/05/2009 8:43:50 AM PST by Grunthor (All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.)
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To: Merciful_Friend

I hope Arec Barwin gets his sorry @$$ taxed off. He deserves it.


12 posted on 03/05/2009 8:44:34 AM PST by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: Merciful_Friend

Come to the Dark Side, Alec. We have babes. But you already know that.


13 posted on 03/05/2009 8:46:33 AM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Merciful_Friend

What’s the matter Alec? You make over $250,00 a year? Oh no! You are evil & rich and must distribute your ill gotten gains for the common good...


14 posted on 03/05/2009 8:46:45 AM PST by John123 (The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
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To: Merciful_Friend

Kim Jong Il: "You are worfless, Arec Baldwin!"

15 posted on 03/05/2009 8:47:00 AM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: Merciful_Friend

Welcome to the DemonRAT economy, Alex. Just wait until they start taxing him because he’s in the “wealthy” tax bracket. I’ve got a feeling a lot of rich Hollywood liberals are going to become conservatives. In the meantime we can enjoy seeing them squirm. LOL


16 posted on 03/05/2009 8:47:01 AM PST by NRA2BFree (DEMOCRATS ARE PREDAIOUS BLOODSUCKERS AND THAT'S BECAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE LAWYERS!)
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To: pnh102
Isn't Arec a permanent member of F.A.G.?
17 posted on 03/05/2009 8:48:02 AM PST by MaxMax (RINO=RAT!)
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To: Merciful_Friend
His buddy Zero is going to hit his pocket book... that's when the libtards see the light.


"This is the greatest wealth destruction
I've seen by a President."
- Cramer

18 posted on 03/05/2009 8:48:13 AM PST by BigFinn (Obamanation then Obamaggedon.)
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To: rabscuttle385

19 posted on 03/05/2009 8:48:36 AM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: Merciful_Friend

Amazing...simply amazing.


20 posted on 03/05/2009 8:50:15 AM PST by My Favorite Headache (An oath to a liar is no oath at all)
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To: Merciful_Friend

Sobriety has been good for him.


21 posted on 03/05/2009 8:50:19 AM PST by Vision ("Test everything. Hold on to the Good." 1 Thessalonians 5:21)
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"You thoughtless little pig!"

"I'm gonna straighten your ass out!"
22 posted on 03/05/2009 8:51:07 AM PST by evets (beer)
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To: Merciful_Friend
It's all about Alec. To hell with the rest of us.

Typical liberal thinking.

23 posted on 03/05/2009 8:52:22 AM PST by Allegra
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To: Merciful_Friend

What was it Alec called his young daughter? A selfish pig?


24 posted on 03/05/2009 8:53:37 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Computer says No..... Carole Beer)
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To: LottieDah

“A ‘conservative’ is a ‘liberal’ who’s been mugged”


25 posted on 03/05/2009 8:54:48 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Merciful_Friend
going to collapse and it's all going to go to California,” said Baldwin

And California is going to collapse, because of the weight of all these libs and break off, and fall into the sea.

26 posted on 03/05/2009 8:54:50 AM PST by justsaynomore
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To: Merciful_Friend

RW Bob rocks!

Obama is losing traction in a big hurry


27 posted on 03/05/2009 8:55:03 AM PST by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Private First Class - 1/16/09 - Parris Island, SC)
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To: NRA2BFree

I have the feeling alot of the already are conservatives when they enter the voting booth.


28 posted on 03/05/2009 8:56:11 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: 4rcane

Our labels got twisted when “liberal” came to mean “socialist”.

Liberals used to be for liberty and free markets. I am a classical liberal.


29 posted on 03/05/2009 8:58:16 AM PST by Retired Greyhound
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To: Merciful_Friend

Guy is a dim bulb. If he is a conservative, I am the Queen of Sheba. He is a garden-variety uninformed lib who believes in “tax breaks for me (and my industry) but not for thee.” The reporter matches in in dim-bulbedness.


30 posted on 03/05/2009 9:00:17 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: Merciful_Friend
A Conservative what?
Communist?
31 posted on 03/05/2009 9:00:55 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Merciful_Friend

32 posted on 03/05/2009 9:02:32 AM PST by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I was told during the early days of the Iraq War that the way to make a democrat or a pacifist see the light is to walk up to him, and punch him in the face absolutely as hard as you can. You then say, “I’m sorry, I don’t know what came over me. I absolutely denouce what I did, and completely and publicly promise it will never happen again.” Then you help him up, and repeat this process as needed until the desired effect is obtained.


33 posted on 03/05/2009 9:03:12 AM PST by 50sDad (No Irish May Apply: Tell me I haven't been discriminated against.)
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To: Merciful_Friend

Throw him back!!


34 posted on 03/05/2009 9:03:23 AM PST by fml
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To: Merciful_Friend

I guess it’s different when liberal elites spread his industry’s wealth around. That said, Alec Baldwin is something like Dennis Miller - too smart to be a liberal. Miller switched - Baldwin might too.


35 posted on 03/05/2009 9:03:46 AM PST by GOPJ (People who can't use the new WH phone system are trying to redesign half the US economy - Brooks)
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To: Merciful_Friend

Looks like he might be getting a clue, taxes HURT business. Hello!


36 posted on 03/05/2009 9:05:29 AM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: Merciful_Friend

“He understands how tax breaks help his business and how his business helps the economy. But I guess he doesn’t get how this principle works for everyone else too.”

My experience is that when most liberals deal with their own family, their own business, or their own freedom, the are conservative. When they deal with “society,” the “environment,” “business,” and the “rich” they spout liberal platitudes. They are liberal in the abstract. On abstract matters that they do not understand, they are liberal. When it comes time to get real, they are conservative. Our problem is that when they go into the voting booth, they vote for liberals who then enact policies that are suicidal.


37 posted on 03/05/2009 9:08:46 AM PST by ChessExpert (The Dow was at 12,400 when Democrats took control of Congress. What is it today?)
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To: Merciful_Friend

His real views notwithstanding, he plays a politically conservative character quite fairly on 30 Rock. You might say it’s the writers who deserve the credit for that, but the show is actually pretty equal-opportunity when it comes to political jabs.


38 posted on 03/05/2009 9:09:07 AM PST by FelixFelicis (When can we *change* back? [Get yer bumper sticker at www.cafepress.com/deepright!])
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To: Merciful_Friend

So what is the test to be a conservative? Let’s put THE test up and see if he passes.

Most of the time it is “I think I am a conservative, therefore, I am one.”


39 posted on 03/05/2009 9:09:57 AM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: Merciful_Friend

I’m trying to work up a tear here but the continuation of Hollywood movies and TV shows is dead last on my list of things to be concerned about. Votes have consequences, Alec!

(Even figuring out why Total cereal with raisins costs LESS than Total cereal without raisins ranks higher.)


40 posted on 03/05/2009 9:10:23 AM PST by nodumbblonde (Produce, and feed us in exchange for our not destroying your production.)
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To: Merciful_Friend

He’s an asshat.


41 posted on 03/05/2009 9:11:05 AM PST by sauropod (Mean Capitalist Bastard)
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To: Retired Greyhound

“Liberals used to be for liberty and free markets. I am a classical liberal.”

Me too.

I looked up laissez faire economics. It was described as a liberal economic system. That’s not what we are getting from Pelosi, Reid, and Obama.


42 posted on 03/05/2009 9:12:36 AM PST by ChessExpert (The Dow was at 12,400 when Democrats took control of Congress. What is it today?)
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To: ChessExpert

Exactly.


43 posted on 03/05/2009 9:13:52 AM PST by Merciful_Friend
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To: A_Former_Democrat

“A ‘conservative’ is a ‘liberal’ who’s been mugged”

In this case the “conservative” is the one who has been haning around with a den of thieves and suddenly realizes he is having his pocket picked.


44 posted on 03/05/2009 9:15:45 AM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: Merciful_Friend

Geez people, not everyone is going to be 100% right now we need to galvanize against this Administration....we can sort it out by votes in 2010 or 2012 but WE CAN AGREE ON ONE THING...OBAMA IS RUINING OUR ECONOMY...AND THERE ARE A LOT OF LIBERALS WHO ARE CONSERVATIVE THINKERS WHEN IT COMES TO FINANCES....WHY ARE YOU OPPOSED TO PEOPLE WHO WOULD JOIN OUR CAUSE AT THIS CRUICIAL POINT?


45 posted on 03/05/2009 9:17:26 AM PST by Texas4ever (God is Good!)
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To: Texas4ever

Baldwin will not join us, it’s just in this case, it’s his ox that is getting gored.


46 posted on 03/05/2009 9:19:38 AM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: pnh102
I hope Arec Barwin gets his sorry @$$ taxed off. He deserves it.

Wait until all these Hollywierd types get the tax bite. A@@hats, all of them.

47 posted on 03/05/2009 9:20:12 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Merciful_Friend

That Hulu commercial he is in is really creepy......


48 posted on 03/05/2009 9:20:16 AM PST by Kimmers (Working hard so Obamas friends don't have to)
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To: Texas4ever

If the Republican tent is that large, then the poles need to be yanked out from underneath it.


49 posted on 03/05/2009 9:22:43 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Merciful_Friend
CNN had an "I-Report" by a black female viewer last week. It was in response to the bailout. She said that instead of the government giving taxpayer money to the banks for a mortgage bailout they should give it to the people. I thought "we're not so far apart on this issue - only let's take the government out of the equation completely. Just let me keep my money."

I need a bumper sticker that says, "The democrats took my mortgage money to help stop forclosures."

50 posted on 03/05/2009 9:23:17 AM PST by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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