A wise Frenchman once said (Voltair): “I dislike everything you say and stand for—but I will fight to the death for your right to say it in public.” I dislike baldwin but he has a right to his opinion.
Speaking of Voltaire....It’s said that his priest asked him, when he was near death, “Do you renounce Satan and his works?” To which Voltaire is said to have replied, “This is no time to make a new enemy.”
I think the difference was that Baldwin said what he did on his own time, filmed by the paparazzi.
Martin Bashir, on the other hand, got made up and sat in front of MSNBC’s cameramen who, with the blessings of MSNBC, said what he did. It was on camera, not in private, apparently with full consent of NBC.