Regular readers here know that Alec Baldwin is the Patron Saint of this blog and the inspiration for PETAB, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Alec Baldwin. I like to keep up with Alec’s exploits because his silly liberal rants are chock-full-o-funny, but now I’m finding myself in unfamiliar territory with Baldwin — I feel sorry for him.
Alec has made news not only for his acting, but for saying during the Clinton impeachment hearing that, in the good old days, Henry Hyde’s family would be “stoned to death.” He said if Bush was elected, he’d leave the country. Well, Bush was elected, Baldwin’s still here, and Kim Basinger left Alec. Somebody got confused. Whatever.
Baldwin also suggested that the new Yankee Stadium be built at Ground Zero in New York — presumably so it would be known in years to come as “The house that Thorazine built.”
Now it sounds like Alec’s going after his own family. Any of us with kids know of the frustrations. Heck, there are days when I’ve seen “Mommy Dearest” and thought to myself, “yeah, so what’s the problem?” Those engaged in custody battles know of the frustrations to an even greater degree. But the difference between “tough parenting” and “perpetuating the problem” can be heard in a voicemail that has been made public, presumably by Alec’s ex, Kim Basinger.
Neither the call, nor the release of the tape (direct link to the audio is here), was a particularly humane thing to do, so I can’t take sides on this one. Calling your eleven year old daughter a “thoughtless little pig” because she’s being alienated from her father by her mother isn’t obviously textbook parenting, but there are always two sides to every story, and the path to Lunacy is often paved with past injustice. Unfortunately for Alec, judges often don’t care about both sides or pavement, as his visitation rights have been suspended and he can’t have contact with his child. In other words, “business as usual” it sounds like.
The Baldwin/Basinger divorce has been a public and particularly nasty one. In watching the ongoing battles between Kim and Alec and trying to decide which one is the nut, I’m reminded of the guy on the basketball court in the movie “White Men Can’t Jump” who’s trying to decide which story to believe, and finally concludes, “Both you motherf*$%#*s are crazy.”
Unfortunately, as is usually the case, the kid is caught in the middle. This will be the case universally until the term “civil divorce” is no longer an oxymoron.
(h/t to Kitty)
Note for MensNewsDaily readers: My entire blog is now at DougPowers.com
Rate this post:
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading ...
Stumble It!
Joi said,
To make it worse the child and mother make sure the message his message is released to the net for public humiliation. I don’t particularly like Alex Baldwin’s political positions, but I don’t agree this message should have been posted on the net.
Should the mother continue to raise this child? No. Parental Alienation is child abuse. I understand that Mr. Baldwin is at his wits end, and one can tell by his frustration regarding his helpless position. There are no options available for him so he vents.
Do I agree with what Mr. Baldwin said? No. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but I do understand Mr. Baldwin’s frustration regarding his situation and his continued alienation from his daughter.
April 20, 2007 at 7:42 am
Menck said,
April 20, 2007 at 9:48 am
Mike LaSalle said,
The real truth about Alec Baldwin is not that he’s a louse. It’s the fact that Alec Baldwin offers a long history of archetypal roles (on screen and off) that are associated with left wing politics. As far as I am concerned Baldwin is here to offers a case study of left-wing manhood.
Of course Hollywood’s media is rife with smug tales of Bill Clinton’s and Alex Baldwin’s public virtues - and - along with Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, and a few other outspoken rubes - have set them up as good examples of manhood for American youth to emulate.
Yet the yawning gulf between their supposed good intentions for the world and their actual behaviors as human beings - much less as men - is rarely captured and framed for us in the symbolic languages of the mass media.
This is a clean catch by TMZ. Unlike NBC decision to go with the rantings of a maniac as it it were top news, TMZ has given us a rare glimpse into the unalloyed pysche of leftwing manhood in its glory.
April 20, 2007 at 10:39 am
Robert Stevens said,
It is hard , damn hard, not to get mad. And it is frustrating trying to get the theives, terrorist and tyrants, who run a system blatenly biased against men, to understand why you feel that way. They just don’t give a shit.
Only time will fix the problem,as more and more men stand up and start protesting the God awful treatment we have been a victim of , will anything change. It take the passage and strict enforcement of some new civil rights laws. You can’t pass a law against “parental alienation syndrom” but you can take away the environment that creates it. Once the woman no longer has total control and the state has to ajudicate such matter more fairly. Once the state is required to enforce and protect a fathers rights and there are stiff penalties for violating those rights, things will change.
It will be much like the “racial civil rights movement”. First laws will be passed, then it take years of cases and coming down hard on those that violate them. After a while, a long while, attitudes and behavior will change.
I can’t wait until saying the D word ( deadbeat) will be politically incorrect and causes some man hating celebrity to lose their job. It will be no longer ok to violate anyone’s right to be a parent. And the feminism will end up on the ash heap of history , a bad idea that finally died out.
April 20, 2007 at 1:25 pm