Opinion: Columnists Alec Baldwin, the drama queen By Michelle Malkin | FEBRUARY 26, 2014 AT 11:17 AM Topics: Television Photo - 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. (AP Photo) Bad boy-turned-bellyacher Alec Baldwin threw a 5,000-word, seven-page pity party for himself in... 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 actors 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. Hes 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. Hes 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 theyre totally wrong about him.) Sign Up for the Politics Today newsletter! Hes mad that his fellow New Yorkers dont bow down and kiss his ring like they used to, back in the day when theyd stop him on the corner and heap praise on his charitable activities and work as a great supporter of the arts. Hes mad at MSNBC for not letting him book actress Debra Winger on his ill-fated, short-lived train wreck of a vanity talk show. Hes mad at liberal doyenne Arianna Huffington for an article in the Huffington Post about pimples. And hes 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. Its 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 a--s of public discourse for exposing rapes and violence at Occupy Wall Street camps -- and who taunted Breitbarts friends after the father of fours tragic death in 2012 by gleefully floating conspiracy theories on Twitter. Bawling Baldwin cant 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 didnt 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 misogynists laments for a kinder, gentler America ring hollow. But theyre 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 didnt go anywhere. Hes threatened to quit Twitter at least three times, but he always comes back. Now hes 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 hell never talk to an American publication about his personal life ever again. If only it were true. We all know this drama queen aint going nowhere. He wont leave the spotlight. Hes addicted to fame and dependent on infamy. Its all he has left. MICHELLE MALKIN, a Washington Examiner columnist, is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Share this article on Facebook or Twitter Print this article
Posted on: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:00:00 +0000
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