Holy Frijoles my post from yesterday generated a lot of email. Apologies to folks who had email bounce back. My email box filled up around 1:00 AM.

Anyway, reactions are all over the map. For example, there’s a lot of this:

YOU ASK “WHAT DID THIS KID DO TO DRIVE BALDWIN NUTS? THIS KID!!!! THIS WASN’T THIS “KID’S FAULT!”….. TALK ABOUT INSENSITIVE!!! I HAD A FATHER JUST LIKE BALDWIN…SAYS ONE THING IN FRONT OF COMPANY AND WAS A DEMONIC SEXUAL ABUSER WITH ME…. BALDWIN SHOWS HIMSELF TO BE AN ANGRY SELF-CENTERED COWARD…IT’S EASY TO RAIL AGAINST A CHILD “A KID, AS YOU JUST STATED.”……. I AM SO FURIOUS AT YOU RIGHT NOW… I CANNOT EVEN FIND THE WORDS TO EXPRESS THE ANGRY ….

And, there was a lot of this:

Jonah –
You say:
“Again, my point isn’t to defend Baldwin . . . .”
I’d say most of your regulars readers would acquit you
of the charge of being an uncritical apologist for
Alec Baldwin.
Seriously, I’m impressed, but not surprised, that as
usual you are making a strenuous effort to be fair.
Maybe that’s why the moonbats hate you so much.
Best regards,

And there was everything in between. I stand by what I wrote, but let me just put it this way. It’s outrageous and repugnant for Baldwin to talk to his daughter that way. But ugly divorces are really ugly and dysfunctional families have a lot of dysfunction. I have been bee-bopping and scatting all over Alec Baldwin for almost a decade. My only point was that taking this one episode and thinking you understand everything that’s going on in that family is foolish. It’s like clipping a ten second scene from a very long movie and thinking you know everything that’s going on.