Posted on 05/08/2008 1:09:01 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
(CBS) Now that actor Alec Baldwin is 50 years old, he might run for political office. Baldwin talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer about that and other aspects of his life, including his very public divorce and custody battle, in a profile to be broadcast this Sunday, May 11, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
A decade ago, Baldwin was interested in politics, but said he was only 39 and all the people who ran the world were in their fifties. Since then, he has publicly dismissed the notion of running for office. A few weeks ago, he changed his mind. "There's other things I want to do [besides acting]. I mean, in a matter of weeks, I'm going to be 50," says Baldwin, who turned 50 on April 3. "There’s no age limit on running for office, to a degree. [It is] something I might do one day," says Baldwin.
Baldwin says he is ready for the public scrutiny and realizes the tact one must use when running for office because he's learned a lesson about what he says and how it can affect others in the nasty divorce-custody battle with his ex-wife, Kim Basinger. The spat resulted in the publication of an embarrassing voicemail to his daughter in which he calls her a "thoughtless little pig."
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Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
I hope he tries.
He can take Al Franken’s spot.
Dog Catcher, maybe.
Dear lord, deliver us from evil.
It could happen...Minnesota had Jesse Ventura for a governor...and they just might elect Stuart Smalley to the US Senate.
This guy is so full of himself, s—t that is.
That's all that's needed to have that assclown blow his top in public for the 1 millionth time.
Still anxiously waiting for this dirtbag to leave the country.
In France?
Stick with 30 Rock man.
Amen......
I would prefer having Stephen Baldwin running for political office instead!
Gee. I...I wonder which side he’ll run on?
Stephen is a little wacky in the head, if you ask me.
None of them would be a better option.
He is living in France, right???
You Are Worthless Alec Baldwin
Words and music by (presumably) Trey Parker and Matt Stone
I was sent from planet Xiron to conquer the earth
I had a terrific plan — I thought it would work
Tried to get the Earthlings all to kill each other you see
But it all went wrong and now I must decree...
You are worthless Alec Baldwin, you are worthless Alec Baldwin
You failed in every way and now my stock in you has fallen
Your career is stallin’ and you’re worthless Alec Baldwin
That’s why I blew your head off and your children are all bawlin’
Planet Xiron is inhabited with Xipods like me
But also with Balmacs who are giant bees
The Xipods and Balmacs are at constant war
So we wanted a new home and that’s what Earth was for
But you are worthless Alec Baldwin, you are worthless Alec Baldwin
You fucked up my whole plan and now Xiron is smeared with Balmac pollen
Your garbage needs some haulin’ and you’re worthless Alec Baldwin
Now I must return home a failure — I’m afraid the pit of Kryrok is callin’...
-Team America World Police
Baldwin run for office? Isn’t this the clown who promised to move to paris if Bush won in 2000?
I guess he figured if McCain could hold political office and seek higher office with his temperament, then Alec’s now famous temper tantrums with his daughter would not be a stumbling block.
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