Alec Baldwin, the TV face of Capital One Bank, called a hypocrite for visiting Occupy Wall Street

NY Daily News ^ | 10/20/2011 | Lore Croghan and Helen Kennedy

[Howie66]

Will he get fired?

[Loyal Buckeye]

Baldwin later tweeted: "I donated all of my fee from Capital One 2 arts charities. They have been gr8 partners in my support of the arts."

He might have donated an approximate equal amount, but I don't for a minute believe he designated those specific fees as going to charity.

[Ole Okie]

I seem to remember that AB was going to leave the United States if Bush was reelected.

He’s still here making a fortune off 30 Rock.

Says all I need to know about him.

[SMARTY]

He heard there were cameras there and he couldn't resist having it BOTH WAYS.... He IS a hypocrite

[mkjessup]

Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day, at least give Arec credit for saying:
"I think capitalism is worthwhile, and capitalism demands the flow of money."

He could have just as easily started espousing the theories of Karl Marx,
(but then, we've already heard from 0bama this week, now haven't we? har har)

[donozark]

Capital One is very, very bad about trying to force collections from people who were never even customers of theirs. Repeated phone calls. Letters. In two cases I know of personally, citizens had to contact the Missouri AG to get these rapscallions off their backs. Slugs. Crooks. Funny commercials, but pricks to deal with, even if you’ve never dealt with them.

[New Jersey Realist]

Look up the definition of liberal in the dictionary and you’ll find it means hypocrite.....one and the same.

[dead]

But when the banks [act] like they are a hockey player that starts throwing their elbow in your eye socket, you want the SEC to throw the flag. The SEC never throws the flag.

Yeah Alec, hockey flags.

Watch a lot of sports, do ya?

[bray]

Can we see your receipts? Not that we think you are lying, but you are a commie lib.

Pray for America

[dead]

"I want your lips to support Ron Paul," Baldwin was told by a persistent young man who professed a complex theory about bankers assassinating John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln.

Ron Paul's people, representin'.

[LRoggy]

He said he thought the biggest problem is a toothless Securities and Exchange Commission, which is supposed to regulate the financial system.

“They don’t do anything. They are totally in the pocket of the banks!” Baldwin said.

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What an idiot, so typical of the brainless Hollywood left! The SEC doesn’t regulate the banks, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve do. The SEC only regulates the investment banking functions and the financial market participants.

[death2tyrants]

he spent much of it being hounded by Ron Paul fans

I guess I've been wrong the whole time. Ron Paul fans are good for something!

[Lockbox]

As a Capital One card holder I called last week and spoke with a supervisor regarding this issue. Her comment was that she could not comment, which I informed her was understandable. But I asked her to please pass along my feels about having their spokesmen speak out against banks. Today there is a story about old Alex going down to OWS and commenting that capitalism is good. Calling works!

[Buckeye McFrog]

And boy that label sure as hell fits. Capital One has engaged in practices over the years that could almost give one some sympathy for the hippie mobs. Almost.

[Texas Eagle]

Ha haaaaa!!! I love it.

The thing is, he IS a hypocrite.

Somehow, some way, they'll allow him to slither out of it.

[Texas Eagle]

Baldwin later tweeted: "I donated all of my fee from Capital One 2 arts charities.

For which not only did you avoid paying taxes that could have gone to Big Education, but so did the art house.

The kids got double-Bidened!

[Texas Eagle]

"I have my entire fee to arts charities".....

Wow. I had no idea Krispy Kreme was an arts charity.

[GOPJ]

"I don't want the capital markets to be dismantled," he said. "I think capitalism is worthwhile, and capitalism demands the flow of money."

He was right on this one.

Kinda sad Baldwin's on the other side - he has enough backbone to be a conservative... .

[SaraJohnson]

Our limo-socialists promote Marxism every waking hour in this country and then when they see it in action, they are shocked.

We have cursed by an elite class of walking, talking, amoral idiots. Political correctness is a brain drain program for the elite.