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 actorโs bloated face is on the cover of New York magazine this week next to the headline โI Give Up.โ Inside, his rambling and nutty โas told toโ confessional bids adieu to โpublic life.โ Baldwin seethes about, well, everything.
Heโs mad that countless reporters and photographers have dared to cover his toxic little outbursts and violent confrontations over the years, because they ruined his โdreams of running for office at some point in the next five years.โ
Heโs 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 โF-to-M trannyโ just to reassure the โGay Department of Justiceโ that theyโre totally wrong about him.)
Heโs mad that his fellow New Yorkers donโt bow down and kiss his ring like they used to, back in the day when theyโd stop him on the corner and heap praise on his charitable activities and work as a โgreat supporter of the arts.โ
Heโs mad at MSNBC for not letting him book actress Debra Winger on his ill-fated, short-lived train wreck of a vanity talk show.
Heโs mad at liberal doyenne Arianna Huffington for an article in the Huffington Post about pimples.
And heโs especially mad, mad, mad about how angry and hateful the rest of America has become. โThe heart, the arteries of the country are now clogged with hate. The fuel of American political life is hatred,โ he fumes. Itโs all the fault, he fulminates, of Roger Ailes, Fox News, and Andrew Breitbart.
Funny guy. These complaints are coming, after all, from the hate-clogged hate-monger who called Breitbart โa festering boil on the anus of public discourseโ for exposing rapes and violence at Occupy Wall Street camps โ and who taunted Breitbartโs friends after the father of fourโs tragic death in 2012 by gleefully floating conspiracy theories on Twitter.
Bawling Baldwin canโt 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 didnโt like as a โqueen,โ derided conservative women who identity themselves as โmoms,โ mocked Filipina women as mail-order brides, smeared the entire state of Florida as a โf***ed up parallel universe,โ and savaged an American Airlines stewardess who told him to put his iPad away before takeoff. โLast flight (with) American,โ he sneered. โWhere retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950s find jobs as flight attendants.โ
This abuser of service workers and serial misogynistโs laments for a kinder, gentler America ring hollow. But theyโre 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 didnโt go anywhere.
Heโs threatened to quit Twitter at least three times, but he always comes back.
Now heโs 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 heโll never talk to an American publication about his โpersonal lifeโ ever again. If only it were true. We all know this drama queen ainโt going nowhere. He wonโt leave the spotlight. Heโs addicted to fame and dependent on infamy. Itโs all he has left.
โ Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies. ยฉ 2014 Creators.com






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