Alec Baldwin blames gay activists for US show being pulled

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Alec Baldwin blames gay activists for US show being pulled

Rory Carroll in Los Angeles
theguardian.com, Wednesday 27 November 2013 01.45 GMT

The actor Alec Baldwin has blamed "the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy" for the decision by MSNBC, the US cable news channel, to cancel his weekly show after he used offensive language to a photographer.

Baldwin, who was caught on camera apparently calling a photographer a "cocksucking fag", acknowledged he had to take "some responsibility" for his actions but blamed activists for the network's decision on Tuesday to pull the plug on his six-week-old talk show, Up Late with Alec Baldwin.

"You've got the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy – Rich Ferraro and Andrew Sullivan – they're out there, they've got you," he told the news site Gothamist. Ferraro is a spokesman for the mainstream campaign group Glaad, and Sullivan is a popular blogger whose views are not widely regarded as extremist.

"Rich Ferraro, this is probably one of his greatest triumphs," Baldwin said. "They killed my show. And I have to take some responsibility for that myself."

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/27/alec-baldwin-gay-activists-show

[hollysmom]

1. personally, I thought it was that he was a loose gun. But if he can whine and blame,then

I guess it makes him happy, not mature, but happy.

[Lex]

2. He keeps doing the same thing over and over.

He knows he should control himself and his mouth, but he doesn't. I can't muster up any sympathy for him.

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. Dan Savage did...

[Lex]

6. Good for him. nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

9. Well then the consensus is not unanimous...

[Lex]

10. of course it isn't

and I'm not sure it was asserted otherwise?

I like the guy but "the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy" (as Baldwin put it) isn't responsible for his troubles. He is.

[VanillaRhapsody]

12. He also said that...

[NYC_SKP]

5. Same here, but I'm not going to hate-list him, either. nt

[rocktivity]

4. Rocktivity Blames Baldwin's Big Ignorant Mouth

For ATTRACTING The Gay Activists!!!


rocktivity

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. The ingratitude! Imagine: being called "cock-sucking faggots" and not even being grateful! n./t

[VanillaRhapsody]

13. The paparazzi putting the camera on his wife and baby should be grateful?

[Smarmie Doofus]

20. Lots of Hollywood-type dudes and dudettes wrestle w. paparazzi ( their life's blood, btw) ....

... all the time. I haven't heard Sean Penn, Shia LeBoeuf , et al , et al, et al go to the "faggot" place.

And few paparazzi-wrestlers are as outspokenly left/liberal as Alec.

[defacto7]

8. Now there's a guy who really takes responsibility

for his bad behavior. He takes it as if he's a real person, he does.

[joeybee12]

11. But he's a celebrity!

We have to excuse celebrities for behavior that what get us lowly plebes fired! We have to! Western Civilization depends on this!

[VanillaRhapsody]

14. Actions speak louder than words...is he an advocate in deed?

[Lex]

15. Words mean something too. nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

16. Yes....but he is hardly a Rick Santorum saying those words...of which

and he has apologized for. He is a strong and verifiable advocate He was angry when a papparazi put a camera in his wife and baby's face. He spewwed things he later regretted...and apologized for...He is an old New Yorker and I remember how surprised I was when I lived there at the language...Like what Savage said...in his youth that was what you said in anger to someone you wanted to insult. It flew out his mouth in a rage over his family...he is paying the price for it. I don't think he deserves being tossed under the bus when his actions show different.

[Lex]

17. It's actually worse when it's a liberal

spewing those things. I hold him to a higher standard than freaking Rick Santorum. What would people say if he shouted the "n word"? That people said that in his youth when they were mad? No sale.

[VanillaRhapsody]

18. oh good grief...

Would the person saying the N word be an outright advocate? Would the person saying those words be harrassed by a papparazzi and then apologized for it? The AA issues have been on the fore front for much much longer than the LGBT issues have been.....in much less than his entire adult life...as the issues of AA. Ed Shultz used an insulting term about women...he apologized and hasn't been tossed into the annals of public purgatory for it...

[Lex]

19. I hope Alec recovers from it, but he does it over and over and over.

Not a good sign.