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 actorโ€™s bloated face is on the cover of New York magazine this week next to the headline โ€œI Give Up.โ€ Inside, his rambling and nutty โ€œas told toโ€ confessional bids adieu to โ€œpublic life.โ€ Baldwin seethes about, well, everything.

Heโ€™s mad that countless reporters and photographers have dared to cover his toxic little outbursts and violent confrontations over the years, because they ruined his โ€œdreams of running for office at some point in the next five years.โ€

Heโ€™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 โ€œF-to-M trannyโ€ just to reassure the โ€œGay Department of Justiceโ€ that theyโ€™re totally wrong about him.)

Heโ€™s mad that his fellow New Yorkers donโ€™t bow down and kiss his ring like they used to, back in the day when theyโ€™d stop him on the corner and heap praise on his charitable activities and work as a โ€œgreat supporter of the arts.โ€

Heโ€™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.

Heโ€™s mad at liberal doyenne Arianna Huffington for an article in the Huffington Post about pimples.

And heโ€™s especially mad, mad, mad about how angry and hateful the rest of America has become. โ€œThe heart, the arteries of the country are now clogged with hate. The fuel of American political life is hatred,โ€ he fumes. Itโ€™s 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 โ€œa festering boil on the anus of public discourseโ€ for exposing rapes and violence at Occupy Wall Street camps โ€” and who taunted Breitbartโ€™s friends after the father of fourโ€™s tragic death in 2012 by gleefully floating conspiracy theories on Twitter.

Bawling Baldwin canโ€™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 didnโ€™t like as a โ€œqueen,โ€ derided conservative women who identity themselves as โ€œmoms,โ€ mocked Filipina women as mail-order brides, smeared the entire state of Florida as a โ€œf***ed up parallel universe,โ€ and savaged an American Airlines stewardess who told him to put his iPad away before takeoff. โ€œLast flight (with) American,โ€ he sneered. โ€œWhere retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950s find jobs as flight attendants.โ€

This abuser of service workers and serial misogynistโ€™s laments for a kinder, gentler America ring hollow. But theyโ€™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 didnโ€™t go anywhere.

Heโ€™s threatened to quit Twitter at least three times, but he always comes back.

Now heโ€™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 heโ€™ll never talk to an American publication about his โ€œpersonal lifeโ€ ever again. If only it were true. We all know this drama queen ainโ€™t going nowhere. He wonโ€™t leave the spotlight. Heโ€™s addicted to fame and dependent on infamy. Itโ€™s 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