Alec Baldwin: 'Don't Name a Bridge After Ted'

NewsBusters ^ | August 30, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

A word of advice to liberals who wish to pay tribute to Ted Kennedy: don't mention his name in the same sentence as the word "bridge" since it will undermine whatever else you wrote. Unfortunately for Alec Baldwin, that is exactly what he did in his Huffington Post tribute to the deceased senator:

Don't name a bridge after Ted.

Yes, Baldwin did write a lot more about Ted Kennedy in his tribute but that one sentence alone pretty much overwhelms whatever else he wrote. However, to be fair to Alec, let us look at some of the rest of his tribute which almost everyone will forget because of his incredibly poor choice of words above:

[PJ-Comix]

Too late to take it back, Alec. Obviously he didn't have an editor carefully check the wording his tribute.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[A_Former_Democrat]

Funny. Such creativity, Alec.

ROFL

[clamper1797]

How about the Kopekne-Kennedy Bridge

[null and void]

Is this:

The After Ted Bridge?

[maggief]

Don’t name a women’s shelter after Alec.

[org.whodat]

How about the trillion dollar tunnel, you can call it ted follies and put a hookers picture on the entrance.

[MetaThought]

I know!

Let’s name a sandwich.

How does the Kennedy-Dodd sandwich sound to you ?

[FreeReign]

However, to be fair to Alec, let us look at some of the rest of his tribute which almost everyone will forget because of his incredibly poor choice of words above:

LOL!

The author sounds like an arrogant, controlling scold.

[Tax Government]

Democrat liberals are so desperate for political influence (ironic, isn’t it) that they will forgive, ignore and suppress evidence of clear signs of malfeasance and criminality in their heroes.

The democrat party is now largely populated by hopeless, criminally inclined people whose only high purpose is acquiring raw power.

America is too good for them.

[FreeReign]

Let’s name a sandwich.

Let's name the fall of a previously free constitutional republic...

[ditto h]

The bridge to no where.

[depressed in 06]

Too late, the Kennedy Healthcare bill is like driving off a bridge, the passenger gets screwed.

[shadeaud]

Maybe a brand of unblended Scotch( imported legally this time from Canada) Brandname could be called Teddy’s with the slogan ‘’Drink,Drive and Dream you can swim like Him’’

[PJ-Comix]

The author sounds like an arrogant, controlling scold.

Hello from the "arrogant, controlling scold."

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Or a University...

[ditto h]

Sorry..nowhere.

[dfwgator]

You are worthless Arec Baldwin...

[NautiNurse]

The Kennedy Bottoms Up Memorial Bridge.

For his scotch glass and the Oldsmobile.

[FreeReign]

Hello from the "arrogant, controlling scold."

LOL, sorry. Perhaps I'm misreading what you said. Do you think that Alec used an "incredibly poor choice of words".

[DrC]

“You are worthless Arec Baldwin...”

I thought the bridge comment was remarkably insightful in a Freudian-slip kind of way. The comment that told me all I need to know about Baldwin’s political savvy was this:

“Barney Frank is, perhaps, one of the best examples of what a great legislator is today.”

In the words of Barney Frank: “Alec, on what planet having YOU been living?”

[Max_850]

The good news is Alec is considering running for office.

That would help the Dems since they are now short one buffoon.

It would also help the Repubs, we would never be short of Anti-Lib material.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I thought a fitting tribute would be similar to a burial at sea but throw the body off the Bridge at Chappaquiddick.

[PJ-Comix]

Do you think that Alec used an "incredibly poor choice of words".

If his purpose was to pay tribute to Ted Kennedy...yes.

[PJ-Comix]

Whenever I see your name I think of hurricanes. Fortunately none threatening South Florida right now.

[FreeReign]

Do you think that Alec used an "incredibly poor choice of words".

If his purpose was to pay tribute to Ted Kennedy...yes.

If his purpose was to pay tribute to a political statist, while at the same time to remind everybody how Kennedy killed Mary Jo, then I would say...no.

[TigersEye]

Don't name a bridge after Ted.

OK. Let's name some legislation after him.

Chappaquidick Memorial Health Care Reform
Because some people just aren't worth saving.

[Recon by Fire]

Let’s name a sandwich.

Soup Sanwich sounds good!

[PJ-Comix]

Somebody should get a screen shot of Baldwin’s Kennedy tribute before the “bridge” reference is removed.

[Buckeye McFrog]

and we won’t name any rehab clinics after you, Alec....

[cameraeye]

With crunchy peanut butter?

[MetaThought]

I figure it must have meat in it. Perhaps some chicken or a slab of beef ?

[rockrr]

I’ll admit that I have studiously avoided the “Teddy the Swimmer Memorial Traveling Magic Show” as much as possible, but insofar as it appears impossible without pharmaceutical interaction, I have caught a few bits.

It amuses me no end to see the desperate contortions that the left has had to go through in order to find anything nice to say about him. He was a smug, arrogant, manipulating a-hole (and those were his positive attributes) and everyone knew it.

His final acts are as phony and contrived as everything else about him.

Arec can make all the Freudian slips he wants because the left can only see what they want to see.

[MrEdd]

I was going to say that.

[decimon]

How about a tunnel? The Kennedy Battery Tunnel.