Alec Baldwin: 'I've Had the Entire Internet Shoved up My
*ss'
by Christian Toto 31 Mar 2014,
1:07 PM PDT
The latest stop on Alec Baldwin's "I'm retreating
from public life" tour took him to Adam Carolla's popular podcast.
On The Adam Carolla Show's March
26 edition, Baldwin called in seemingly
unannounced to chat up the host, "Bald" Bryan and Alison Rosen.
Baldwin wasn't plugging any new project, nor was he eager to
answer questions from Carolla. Instead, he used his air time to vent about
journalism (again), feign indifference regarding the many unpleasant stories
about him and, mostly likely, continue to do damage control on his career.
"I've had the entire Internet
shoved up my ass for the past few months. Is there anything you can recommend
for that?" Baldwin said, laughing.
Carolla tried to ask what specific
issue was bugging him at the moment, but Baldwin
wouldn't bite.
"It's not even worth going
into ... in the end, who cares?" Baldwin
said. Obviously, Baldwin cares deeply, either
for personal reasons or fear his career could be hurt by the fallout.
The podcaster treated his guest
with great care and deference, while Baldwin
complained about the crush of commentary in the culture today.
"All of journalism, from one
end to the other, it's all opinion and analysis. The facts are lost," Baldwin said.
The two then discussed how people
in the public eye can be called terrible names--sexist, racist, for
example--without actually doing something to prove they feel that way in their
hearts.
"We're living at a time when
you can be called an arsonist without striking a single match," Carolla said.
"You used to have to earn it."
Baldwin briefly admitted he had done and said things "in the
zip code" of being a hater. He quickly backpedaled, insinuating he had
simply criticized certain people who happened to be gay, and then was labeled a
homophobe as a result.
Nonsense.
Ironically, the channel Baldwin briefly called home makes it its business to
hammer people who criticize President Barack Obama as racist for the crime of
disagreeing with his policies. Yet Baldwin
never seemed too concerned about that before or after his lightning-fast MSNBC career.
In short, Baldwin
is angry he's getting caught in a P.C. language trap his fellow liberals have
been using for years against their ideological enemies. Yet while the Left
conjures up "code words" and other mystical attempts to change plain
language into hate speech, Baldwin actually
uses hate speech. Often.
Alec Baldwin
Alec
Baldwin is a director at People for
the American Way, and was the host for Up
Late With Alec Baldwin.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for People for the American Way, and the International Rescue Committee.
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Harold E. Ford Jr. is an overseer at
the International Rescue Committee, a
political commentator at MSNBC, and
a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Up Late
With Alec Baldwin was an MSNBC program.
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