In Which @ABFalecbaldwin Finally Gets the Kind of Attention He Deserves

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Alec Baldwin has advantages any man could envy: Wealthy, famous, good-looking, intelligent and talented, Baldwin has been a successful actor since debuting on the NBC soap opera The Doctors at age 22. His breakthrough as a major movie star came in the 1990 film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s classic Cold War thriller, The Hunt for Red October, and Baldwin was also memorable for his role as the brutal company representative Blake in 1992’s Glengarry Glen Ross. For his role as Jack Donaghy on NBC’s comedy 30 Rock, Baldwin won two Emmys, three Golden Globes, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Why, then, is Alec Baldwin so miserable and angry?

And why does it seem that, every time this high-profile progressive celebrity has a run-in with paparazzi, he starts shouting hateful slurs?

Baldwin has been suspended from his MSNBC news show, and has issued a weird public statement via Huffington Post:

I never used the word faggot in the tape recording being offered as evidence against me. What word is said right after the other choice word I use is unclear. But I can assure you, with complete confidence, that a direct homophobic slur (or indirect one for that matter) is not spoken. In the wake of referring to a tabloid “journalist” as a toxic queen, I would never allow myself to make that mistake again, nor would I expose my wife and family to the attendant ridicule. My friends who happen to be gay are baffled by this. They see me as one who has recently fought for marriage equality and has been a supporter of gay rights for many years. Now, the charge of being a “homophobic bigot,” to quote one crusader in the gay community, is affixed.

As someone who is directly opposed to the “gay rights” agenda which, in this case, Baldwin uses as a sort of Teflon shield against the accusation of “homophobia,” let me note that this situation exposes the bizarre Orwellian nature of political correctness. As long as you are supportive of a political agenda, Baldwin seems to believe, this exempts you from any criticism about your words and deeds that may seem like hypocritical betrayals of your avowed politics.

It’s like Al Gore living in a gigantic energy-sucking mansion and traveling by CO2-spewing jets and limos, even while he gets rich by preaching about global warming to the lowly plebians.

Alec Baldwin may be a misogynistic bully — but he’s pro-choice! He may scream hateful slurs — but he’s for “marriage equality”!

And our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president can drone-strike terrorists while running a vast surveillance state, yet as long as he gives lip service to the “progressive” cause, nobody on the Left is supposed to notice these mind-boggling contradictions.

Despite all his advantages, Alec Baldwin seems strangely unhappy, and his latest angry outburst has made him a laughingstock, the butt of endless jokes in a painful ritual of public humiliation. His career will probably survive this embarrassment. Like Charlie Sheen, Baldwin is such a marketable commodity in show business that it is nearly impossible for him to destroy his acting career.

Nevertheless, his humiliation could be a teachable moment — if not for him, at least for others who are watching this public meltdown with a mixture of horror and glee. Whether you like Alec Baldwin or you despise Alec Baldwin, you can learn from Alec Baldwin.

Everyone wants success. Everyone wants praise and admiration. Most people get far less success, praise and admiration than they want, while a few people seem to get much more than they deserve.

Alec Baldwin has in his lifetime reaped more success, praise and admiration than most people could ever imagine. His estimated net worth is $65 million, his reported salary is $300,000 per TV episode and he was once married to Kim Basinger, for crying out loud.

But it’s never enough, is it? Somewhere deep inside Alec Baldwin there is a gaping void, an abyss in his soul, and from that dark chasm erupt the geysers of hatred that have brought him to shame.

Perhaps some readers could suggest a cure, and perhaps we should be all grateful, for there but for the grace of God go you or I.

(Via Memeorandum with more blog commentary from Legal Insurrection, Twitchy, Weasel Zippers, Gateway Pundit, Ed Driscoll and Conservatives4Palin.)

 

 

76 comments

  10. Guess that’s why he’s an actor. He can play anyone in front of a camera. Can’t play himself at all in real life. He’s a disaster.

  11. And note, Amazon is flogging Baldwin’s acting stuff because we’re talking about him. Shameless capitalism for the win!

  13. I tend toward the view that paparazzi are subhuman scum, and so when Sean Penn punched one, its kind of hard to slam him, even if he is a commie idiot.

  14. Some very famous actors, Baldwin is a prime example, seem to have a lot of “trouble” with paparazzi while others, even in the big city, manage to find ways to live at least somewhat private lives. With the former the problem is often a bad case of Dramatis Queenitis. They love the attention from the paparazzi when it serves their purposes and strokes their ego, then have a hissy fit when the bastards won’t go away on command. Baldwin could almost certainly avoid much of the “unwanted” attention if he and his wife worked at lowering their profiles a bit, however, I suspect the spotlight is just too seductive for them.

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