I don’t disagree with his post, but what I do find ironic is that Baldwin is a big union guy. Whenever celebrity unions — like SAG, the NFL, MLB, etc. — go on strike, there’s always support from the real unions. But with real union jobs at stake, Baldwin shows where his true union colors lie. Hybrid batteries before people:

I feel horribly for every single man and woman who will suffer as the result of this heartbreaking turn of events. I was the voice of Chevy Tahoe TV spots for five years in the early 90’s. I drove a Tahoe then and loved it. Now, I drive a Prius. I’ve owned Mercs, Chevys, Fords and Jeeps. I’m in the market for a new car now. I’ll probably get a hybrid from a Japanese company, manufactured at a transplant factory in the American South. (Read the excellent recent article in the New Yorker by Peter Boyer about the path the Big Three and the UAW took to get here.) I’d like to buy an American car, but I’d feel like a fool doing that now. The leadership of the biggest automakers made sure of that.
There can be only one legitimate response to this crisis. Let energy conservation and fuel efficiency rule the day. Let the carmakers go under. In the same way we have subsidized Big Oil by destabilizing the governments of petroleum rich countries, or outright invading them, we have subsidized Detroit long enough. Just as every barrel of oil is undervalued because we do not factor in that portion of the defense budget that helped bring that oil to market, so we have undervalued our government’s, and therefore our, complicity in producing cars that not only were inferior, but drove Detroit itself right off a cliff.

If Baldwin feels so strongly on this, why not add a clasuse to his 30 Rock contract that NBC cannot accept advertiser dollars from any of the evil industries, like “Big Oil.” And maybe the American car companies should question their advertising spending on NBC, if NBC’s stars are going to root for their demise.