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Alec Baldwin apologizes after fiery rant at daughter, 11 [breaks silence]
AFP via Yahoo ^ | 4/20/07

Posted on 04/20/2007 5:06:55 PM PDT by advance_copy

Alec Baldwin issued an apology on Friday for unleashing a volcanic tirade at his 11-year-old daughter and blamed "certain people" for leaking the rant to US media.

The Oscar-nominated star of "The Departed" branded daughter Ireland a "rude, thoughtless, little pig" in a fiery voicemail message that emerged on celebrity websites on Thursday.

It is the latest twist to the bitter legal wrangling between Baldwin and ex-wife Kim Basinger over custody and visitation rights relating to Ireland. The couple split in 2001.

Baldwin's tirade was apparently triggered by Ireland's failure to switch her mobile phone on for a scheduled call with her father.

"Once again I've made an ass out of myself trying to get to a phone at a specific time," Baldwin says in the message. "I'm tired of playing this game with you. You have insulted me for the last time.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baldwin; jerk; maniac; whatyoustillhere
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To: advance_copy

I hate this liberal jerk. I’m happy that his dark nature is being exposed; he is twisted with hate. I don’t speak to people like this and I’d never be so cruel to an 11 year old. And I’m an asshole.


341 posted on 04/20/2007 9:42:20 PM PDT by Porterville (All hail the Prophet Gore, an ass dressed in a lion's skin)
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To: hleewilder

So you’d abuse your daughter because she didn’t want to be forced to talk to you?


342 posted on 04/20/2007 9:42:56 PM PDT by dleecomeback07 (Let's Go Pee Yay (The Cubs new young player is named Pie pronounced Pee Yay))
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To: Albion Wilde

He will be wondering in 10 years or so why her uncle is walking her down the aisle and is called grandpa by her kids.

He will wonder why he only sees pictures of her wedding.


343 posted on 04/20/2007 9:43:52 PM PDT by dleecomeback07 (Let's Go Pee Yay (The Cubs new young player is named Pie pronounced Pee Yay))
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To: Elyse
Sometimes it's all about the power trip for one parent and not about caring for the child. I more than often have a lot of sympathy for men in custody suits, but in this case from what I've seen of his character, I have to believe that Bassinger is only protecting her daughter and I pray for the child that Bassinger isn't as crazy as Baldwin makes her out to be.

Nailed it. And calling the other parent crazy is part of the power trip. The problem is that it all hinges on the point of view of the judge, and what judge is assigned to the case. Judges may vary considerably. Divorce and custody are among the most subjective judgments.

344 posted on 04/20/2007 9:44:10 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: hleewilder

So you think abuse to a certain extent is okay?

ALL ABUSE IS WRONG.

Please say you have no children.

Verbally abusive hateful people like Alec Baldwin usually also do physical abuse.


345 posted on 04/20/2007 9:46:05 PM PDT by dleecomeback07 (Let's Go Pee Yay (The Cubs new young player is named Pie pronounced Pee Yay))
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To: dleecomeback07

I think hearing this swine talk to his daughter this way the same week that we hear of young people never to be seen by their family again just makes it even sicker.

Also hearing the lunatic murderer speak in hateful rages just makes us pause and say, No, that is not o.k. to talk to a child like that.


346 posted on 04/20/2007 9:46:25 PM PDT by jhw61
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To: Albion Wilde

My uncle was a family court judge. Visitation wouldn’t be stopped if it was just this one phone call.


347 posted on 04/20/2007 9:47:38 PM PDT by dleecomeback07 (Let's Go Pee Yay (The Cubs new young player is named Pie pronounced Pee Yay))
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To: hleewilder

I guess I missed the part about abusing my kids being okay.

You think abuse is fine most of us don’t.

The parent using their child is Alec. He clearly does not love her. If he did he never would call her a pig or consider it making a butt out of himself to get to a phone.


348 posted on 04/20/2007 9:51:20 PM PDT by dleecomeback07 (Let's Go Pee Yay (The Cubs new young player is named Pie pronounced Pee Yay))
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To: dalight

S child abuse is okay as long as it’s not made public?


349 posted on 04/20/2007 9:51:58 PM PDT by dleecomeback07 (Let's Go Pee Yay (The Cubs new young player is named Pie pronounced Pee Yay))
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To: Albion Wilde

Searched on “provoke” at bible.com :)


350 posted on 04/20/2007 9:52:38 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Better a democrat with an energized opposition than a leftist “Republican” with no opposition.)
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To: KsSunflower
That tape was the property of Kim Bassinger. If it was released, it was released with her permission. Please...do you really think the 11 year old daughter, on her own, managed to get that released to the media?

You need to watch the show "Dirt" for one or two episodes. It's about the tabloid news industry, and the lengths tabloids go to to get dirt on celebrities and publish it. A lot of money changes hands, and no one is safe. Look at how the snooty servants in the court of Queen Elizabeth all told tales about Diana and Charles. It wouldn't have happened without a lot of palms getting greased with filthy lucre. Don't be naive. There could be one very wealthy Basinger housemaid heading back to Mejico tonight.

351 posted on 04/20/2007 9:52:43 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: Jo Nuvark

He disowned his brother because he dared not be a democrat.

How disgusting. I have many democrat friends who I share other interests with. We just don’t get into politics.

I have democrat family members. Again we’re family. Yes we get into politics but at the end of the day these people are still my cousin in one case, my uncle in another case etc.


352 posted on 04/20/2007 9:56:40 PM PDT by dleecomeback07 (Let's Go Pee Yay (The Cubs new young player is named Pie pronounced Pee Yay))
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To: TigersEye
I saw Alec Baldwin on a TV talk show a long time ago, well before his Henry Hyde outburt, and he was going on and on about how violent and sadistic he and his brothers were to each other. I don’t recall the details now but it went way beyond fist fighting. He was definitely bragging about how sick and mean they were to each other.

Thank you. You bring this up in a week in which a mass murderer's childhood is now being combed, and all the hundreds of red flags that were missed are now being reviewed ... but no one took responsibility. I hope someone out there with authority over Herr Baldwin is listening.

353 posted on 04/20/2007 9:56:58 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: advance_copy
Here is my two cents on this issue. First I am not a fan of Baldwin's politics, and I cringed when he called his daughter a pig. When it comes down to it there are many worst examples of bad parenthood. I had a coach on a football team that I played on in the early 70’s that constantly called his son a jackass, and that son now works in the police dept. My aunt told my niece that she had shit for brains, and my niece is now some big corporate hot shot. I would bet that most of the ones who are calling for Baldwin's head would be the first to advocate the benefits of corporal punishment. It really disgust me that Sean Hannity, the self proclaimed good Christian, took such glee in this turn of events for Baldwin, and even tried to get Kim Bassinger on his radio show to continue this bashing.
354 posted on 04/20/2007 9:58:56 PM PDT by hodaka (')
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To: jhw61
Honestly, o.k. o.k. So like I can’t stand you o.k. and I don’t want to ever talk to you again o.k. and I want all those receipts o.k. and I don’t want to talk to you again o.k.

LOL — he had a speech impediment, o.k.?

355 posted on 04/20/2007 9:59:21 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: Albion Wilde

I know very few screwed up women who didn’t have bad relationships with their dads if there was a dad at all.

That’s why if a woman winds up without a husband or father for her child there needs to be a man in that child’s life. Too many women have the no man needed mantra.

My best friend’s father died when she was little and her mother never remarried. Her mother’s brother was the Dad in her life. Took her to daddy daughter events. Gave her away at her wedding. Is who her kids call grandpa.


356 posted on 04/20/2007 10:00:26 PM PDT by dleecomeback07 (Let's Go Pee Yay (The Cubs new young player is named Pie pronounced Pee Yay))
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To: Mygirlsmom

So he abuses her because she doesn’t leave her cell phone on?

Scary gets a beating at least an emotional one for forgetting to turn on her cell phone.

She’s better off with no daddy than him as her daddy.


357 posted on 04/20/2007 10:02:06 PM PDT by dleecomeback07 (Let's Go Pee Yay (The Cubs new young player is named Pie pronounced Pee Yay))
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To: KsSunflower
It sounds like you are a very decent person with a sense of privacy who has never lived in the glare of publicity as the Baldwins have, and possibly not even in a large city, where news travels fast. I admire that and am tempted to envy that.

By the same token, your point of view may therefore not be reckoning with the very different life celebrities and their children lead. It is a fishbowl that is not good for children to begin with, requiring huge efforts by the parents to keep the children out of the limelight — in this case, he just blabbed about his daughter on two television shows and Lord only knows who overheard his loud phone rant, which for all you know may have been recorded by a money-grubbing assistant in his own hotel suite as he delivered it.

While you may think the release of the tape is dastardly, a good case can be made that it is the only thing that can end this endless divorce and put Baldwin in his place, as he is quite obviously abusive, out of control, and wealthy enough to keep the abuse and jerking around of the mother and the daughter going on indefinitely. See post 167.

358 posted on 04/20/2007 10:09:05 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: Albion Wilde

I’m off to bed. It’s been fun chatting tonight. Hope I don’t dreap someone repeating o.k. to me all night. O.K. O.K. I’m off to bed. Take care Albion.


359 posted on 04/20/2007 10:10:13 PM PDT by jhw61
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To: pollyannaish

I wouldn’t be aurprised if Alec and his lawyer got a copy and released it.


360 posted on 04/20/2007 10:10:38 PM PDT by dleecomeback07 (Let's Go Pee Yay (The Cubs new young player is named Pie pronounced Pee Yay))
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