Posted on 06/01/2004 8:01:56 PM PDT by karbine
Has anyone else had a hard time watching the excellent line-up of Memorial Day/D-Day programming on History channel with Alec Baldwin as host/emcee? I was astounded by the gross insensitivity of History Channel having a hard-core leftist with the reputation of alec ("Stone Henry Hyde and his family to death") baldwin introducing segments and doing some narrating. What are they thinking? Everytime I see or hear him I lunge for the remote control. I watch History Channel more then anything else on tv, but they must have some sick pinko's in production who are able to slip through some disreputable material and characters sometimes. Several years ago, on Veterans Day, they ran a program about Hiroshima and Nagasaki that seemed to have been done in Europe. It's premise was that the US only used the A-bombs because they were new toys and we just wanted to play with them and we were all a bunch of racists who didn't care about incinerating a few hundred thousand Japs. Who in the hell would pick a day like Veterans Day to air a program like that? They insinuated that the war was already over and there was absolutely no military reason for the use of the A-bombs. I doubt if I'd be writing this now if America hadn't dropped those bombs. My dad was on a ship heading across the Pacific then and God alone knows what might have happened if the invasion had had to go ahead as I think it would've. We should all let History Channel know how we feel about the in-your-face insult of having someone like baldwin hosting and narrating programs honoring our real heroes. God Bless America, God Bless our valiant servicemen and women-active and retired, and God Bless our President and his re-election.
Similar thoughts here!
Maybe because he works cheap?
Two words: Dirt cheap!
Actual conversation heard at my house this weekend in response to these spots....
Daughter: Alec Baldwin? I thought he was leaving?
Wife: He didn't.
Daughter: Too bad.
Well didnt he move to france after bush was elected?
Who knows why he's on. Trying to restore his tarnished image. What a work! He looks like a drunk punk. I have these hollywood people figured out. The reason they are so left wing in their views has more to do with them feeling they are more marketable that way. It's all about money and sales. By being anti-government they somehow they think more people will go see their movies or buy their records. They are wrong and bums like alex baldwin are proof. Now evidently he's trying to make the turned off public think he's patriotic when all anyone has to do is read all of his antics during the Clinton years and just see how out of control this drunken bruser really is. A mental midget if you ask me. I can't stand to look at his face.
He was in a war movie
Because the HC has went lefty, big time, I seldom go there any more.
Well he has a thing about France.
You are correct. Besides, he has a decent voice. Also, I read sometime back that he vowed to keep his mouth shut from now on. He was too over the top and he said he learned his lesson. Man's gotta eat.
Good question - I felt like puking!
I fired off an angry email to the History Channel Saturday night about this. No reply (yet). I change the channel every time his smarmy, treasonous face comes on.
Yet History Channel International is pretty good.
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