Posted on 02/26/2014 4:05:11 AM PST by Kaslin
Bad boy-turned-bellyacher Alec Baldwin threw a 5,000-word, seven-page pity party for himself in the entertainment media he says he abhors. Hey, what better way for a Hollywood narcissist to protest the attention-starved shallowness of celebrity life than to wallow in it to the bitter end?
The rage-filled actor's bloated face is on the cover of New York magazine this week next to the headline "I Give Up." Inside, his rambling and nutty "as told to" confessional bids adieu to "public life." Baldwin seethes about, well, everything.
He's mad that countless reporters and photographers dared to cover his toxic little outbursts and violent confrontations over the years, because they ruined his "dreams of running for office at some point in the next five years."
He's mad at gays for calling him out on his gay-bashing statements that he either denies or forgets he made. (Oh, and he throws in a reference to an "F-to-M tranny" just to reassure the "Gay Department of Justice" that they're totally wrong about him.)
He's mad that his fellow New Yorkers don't bow down and kiss his ring like they used to, back in the day when they'd stop him on the corner and heap praise on his charitable activities and work as a "great supporter of the arts."
He's mad at MSNBC for not letting him book actress Debra Winger on his ill-fated, short-lived train wreck of a vanity talk show.
He's mad at liberal doyenne Arianna Huffington for an article in the Huffington Post about pimples.
And he's especially mad, mad, mad about how angry and hateful the rest of America has become. "The heart, the arteries of the country are now clogged with hate. The fuel of American political life is hatred," he fumes. It's all the fault, he fulminates, of "Roger Ailes," "Fox News" and "Breitbart."
Funny guy. These complaints are coming, after all, from the hate-clogged hate-monger who called Andrew Breitbart "a festering boil on the anus of public discourse" for exposing rapes and violence at Occupy Wall Street camps -- and who taunted Breitbart's friends after the father of four's tragic death in 2012 by gleefully floating conspiracy theories on Twitter.
Bawling Baldwin can't take it anymore, America, but he sure loves to dish it out.
Remember: Our born-again champion of civility and tolerance is the same rageball who attacked a Starbucks barista he didn't like as a "queen," derided conservative women who identity themselves as "moms," mocked Filipina women as mail-order brides, smeared the entire state of Florida as a "f***ed up parallel universe" and savaged an American Airlines stewardess who told him to put his iPad away before takeoff. "Last flight (with) American," he sneered. "Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950s find jobs as flight attendants."
This abuser of service workers and serial misogynist's laments for a kinder, gentler America ring hollow. But they're not nearly as hollow as his habitual threats to disappear from public life.
Bloviating Baldwin threatened to move to Canada if George W. Bush won a second term, but he never followed through.
He threatened to quit show biz last fall, but he didn't go anywhere.
He's threatened to quit Twitter at least three times, but he always comes back.
Now he's threatening to decamp from the mean streets of Greenwich Village to Los Angeles, that sanctuary of privacy and oasis of compassion and sincerity, where the baristas will be more servile and the photographers will put down their cameras and toss rose petals at his feet.
Babbling Baldwin says he'll never talk to an American publication about his "personal life" ever again. If only it were true. We all know this drama queen ain't going nowhere. He won't leave the spotlight. He's addicted to fame and dependent on infamy. It's all he has left.
Well, if you or I had Joe & Mika’s work schedule, we’d be starving in the streets. So it may be pure laziness on their part.
Did you notice Baldwin said Joe was a hard guy to work with? Confirms all the stuff I’ve heard about Joe’s treatment of staff.
I don’t know if I remember that.
It was a long ma(d)ifesto, yes?
I do remember him saying something like Joe being neither eloquent or humorous.
I often turn on Morning Joe in the mornings at the gym just to see what the enemy might be worried about. Obamacare was a delicious topic for a few months until they decided, in lockstep with the Obama administration, that none of the policy or healthcare aspects really matter so long as they can shove it down our throats anyway.
But the weird thing, Miss M., is that for all their faux wonkishness the show isn’t really a news show at all. It’s a pretentious, deeply cynical “reality” show, on the other end of the political and spiritual spectrum from, say, Duck Dynasty.
The past few days, with a few carefully timed trips from the room, you might never know that Ukraine and Venezuela were in tumult, that civilians were dying by the thousands in Syria, that powerful and near-powerful nations are lining up to fill the leadership role the U.S. under Obama has renounced.
You wouldn’t know that this is a nation in crisis itself, but for little Bobby Jindal’s “poisonous” remarks in the Rose Garden the other day.
This is the news of the world according to Margaret Dumont or, more aptly, Holly Golightly. Astonishing, the vacuous people and topics that shape our times.
So interesting - it started out as a news show and has morphed into a weird reality show, as you say. And it’s all about their personal problems - Mika’s ridiculous and embarrassing food troubles! Joe’s mentally-challenged son! Mike Baricle’s weight problem and old-fogy glasses! Clarence Page’s odd, Kermit the Frog voice! Michael Steele’s inability to get another job! Nicole Wallace trying to get her arms as cut as Michele Obama’s! Endless mindless chatter while - as you say - the Ukraine and Venezuela blow up and the Cubans have been denied meat in their diet.
Yes and the fake Republicans-—Joe and Steele and the weirdly innocuous Nicole Wallace-—are much, much worse than the lefties who fill the screen, who at least have their hatred as motive force.
There’s not a single host or even guest that one would care to have at the dinner table, with the exception of an occasional actor or athlete.
And isn’t it impossible not to notice how sexless they all are? Jon Meachem? The plasticine Mika? Even the buffed and stridently gay Steven Roberts (he of the sneering “sanctity of sperm” comments) who looks and acts like a Stepford Husband, or Wife, such as the evening demands. And...”Willie” Geist?
If you haven’t seen it already you should google the appearance on the show of the comedian Russell Brand, a brainy, hearty, real human being who clearly felt he had been dropped in amongst some clan of bumbling, evil mannkin-pods.
Did Ken Doll Steve replace Ken Doll Donnie? What grown man uses a diminutive? Gay men do, of course. Or maybe he’s metrosexual. Oddly enough, I can only stand about 15 minutes of it before switching to a movie - at eight o’clock in the morning!
Have you checked on Ronan Farrow? Since you seem to enjoy media, you might want to dvr an episode. It’s got to be seen to be believed. The kid gives nepotism a bad name!
Well, Donnie’s supposed to be the babe magnet, right?
The big swordsman?
He is such a tool—of what variety, for what job, I can’t imagine—that I was stunned to learn he actually DOES run a large p.r. firm, which has been responsible for a number of recent Super Bowl ad campaigns.
He is such a hapless emulator of that kind of greezy 50s bad boy dreamboat...I hate to admit it but I am old (and foolish) enough to envy some of those horrid expensive suits!
I am a masochistic news junkie...but I draw the line at Ronan even if NBC won’t...ha...time to go shovel snow Ms M...have a great day!
Thomas Roberts, sorry.
Forgive me the angry sperm talker new to Morning Joe is THOMAS Roberts not Steven...Steven Roberts of course is Cokie Roberts’ husband which opens an entirely new can of...well, soda, or something....
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