Alec Baldwin: the bully who symbolises the hypocrisy of liberal Hollywood

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• Adam White

3 NOVEMBER 2017 • 3:20PM

Through his uncanny portrayals of Donald Trump on the US comedy institution that is Saturday Night Live, Alec Baldwin has become one of the most prolific faces of “the resistance” -- a major liberal voice for a divided America buried under conservative political dominance. But this is also something of a disaster, Baldwin arguably being one of the least helpful figures to become the face of anything, let alone celebrity liberalism.


The past week has been a particularly rough one for Baldwin. The 30 Rock star has not only faced backlash for comments made in a Los Angeles Times piece about his friend and frequent collaborator James Toback, one of the film industry power players to face a litany of sexual assault allegations of late, but also for a speech in which he confessed to having bullied women during his career.


Speaking at a Paley Center dinner honouring his career in film and television, Baldwin said, “I certainly have treated women in a very sexist way. I’ve bullied women. I’ve overlooked women. I’ve underestimated women. Not as a rule.


“From time to time, I’ve done what a lot of men do, which is... when you don’t treat women the same way you treat men. You don’t.”



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Long time observers of Baldwin will not find this admission surprising. Particularly in light of repeated homophobic slurs and some very public displays of anger. Then there was the infamous audio recording leaked to TMZ in 2007 in which Baldwin was heard angrily screaming at his daughter Ireland, then 12.



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Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump during an episode of Saturday Night Live CREDIT: WILL HEATH/NBC/NBCU PHOTO BANK VIA GETTY IMAGES
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[FONT=&quot]“I don’t give a damn that you’re 12 years old or 11 years old, or a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the a-- who doesn’t care about what you do,” he yelled. “I’m tired of playing this game with you. You have insulted me for the last time. You’ve made feel like sh-- and you’ve made me feel like a fool over and over again. I’m going to straighten your a-- out. You are a rude, thoughtless little pig.”


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[FONT=&quot]Baldwin blamed the episode on being “driven to the edge by parental alienation”, claiming that lawyers for his ex wife Kim Basinger, who he was involved in a bitter custody battle with at the time, had deliberately leaked the tape to defame him.


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[FONT=&quot]According to Basinger, Baldwin’s alleged anger was a major factor in her decision to file for divorce back in 2001, the actress calling him a “tin-pot tyrant and bully” in her divorce papers. She said last year that the only reason she met Baldwin in the first place was because she made a film with him in 1991 rather than star in the thriller Sleeping with the Enemy, which eventually became a Julia Roberts vehicle.


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[FONT=&quot]“Isn’t it funny that I turned down Sleeping with the Enemy and then I went on to sleep with the enemy!" she joked to The Edit.[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Baldwin denied Basinger’s claims, alleging that she had turned their daughter against him, as well as claiming that Basinger wasn’t being truthful about his alleged mood swings and anger.

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[FONT=&quot]“I’m sure she would tell you ad nauseam, she might even be more chatty about the warning signals she saw in me,” he told Diane Sawyer in 2008 (via ABC News). “The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.”

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[FONT=&quot]Baldwin and Basinger are reportedly on peaceful terms today, while their daughter Ireland is a successful model, but in that aside, Baldwin has gained a reputation as a prolific rager. Specifically with the paparazzi.

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[FONT=&quot]2012 was a particular nadir, with Baldwin involved in several physical altercations with press photographers in New York City, including one in which he hid himself beneath a large white sheet. The paparazzi may not have seen his face, but the fists confirmed it was Baldwin.[/FONT]

 

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[FONT=&quot]Other incidents that same year included one in which Baldwin tweeted his anger at an “uptight queen” barista he encountered in a Manhattan Starbucks. 2013 also saw his late night talk show Up Late with Alec Baldwin axed after just five episodes following an incident in which Baldwin called a paparazzi photographer a “c---sucking f-g.” He later apologised.


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[FONT=&quot]In fact, Baldwin has made a habit of creating public spectacles that pull focus from his professional life, not least this last year, in which he has had great comic success playing Trump and voicing the improbably profitable Boss Baby, but also repeatedly put his foot in his mouth.

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[FONT=&quot]Speaking to the Los Angeles Times this week, Baldwin said he had no idea of the extent of his friend James Toback’s alleged misconduct. Toback, a filmmaker who worked with Baldwin on both the documentary Seduced and Abandoned and his most recent film The Private Life of a Modern Woman, has been accused by over 300 women of sexual harassment.

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[FONT=&quot]Baldwin denied having had any knowledge of Toback’s sexual interests, before adding, “I never knew of anything where Jimmy assaulted or bullied or pressured. I’ve never heard anything other than that Jimmy was somebody who hit on a lot of women in a very vague way.”[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]That is arguably fair. But then Baldwin added this curiously specific aside: “Jimmy is one of these guys whose attitude is, ‘If I bed 10 of every 100 women I approach, then if I want to sleep with a 100 women, I’ve got to ask 1,000 women.’ It’s all very much like that. A quantitative thing. And knowing that with Jimmy, 300 doesn’t surprise me.”


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[FONT=&quot]He also appeared to link the recent outpouring of sexual harassment claims to liberal America’s inability to bring down Donald Trump, who himself has been accused by multiple women of harassment.


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[FONT=&quot]“There is some veneer to it of complexity because they can’t get the guy they really want to get,” Baldwin said. “Trump is a sexual predator. On the record, there’s all kinds of evidence that Trump has behaved this way, and he’s the president of the United States and that being just one of the things that is horrifying people about Trump, his opinions, his behaviour, his methodology and there’s nothing you can do about that. You cannot touch him.”


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[FONT=&quot]Baldwin’s interview was widely criticised on social media, with filmmakers Judd Apatow and James Gunn and actress Selma Blair raising eyebrows at his comments. Blair has been one of the most high-profile stars to accuse James Toback of sexual harassment.


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I love how @AlecBaldwin is blocking on Twitter all my sisters who were sexually harassed and raped by his buddy #JamesToback.
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[FONT=&quot]Asia Argento, an Italian actress who

accused Harvey Weinstein of rape, has additionally taken Baldwin to task this week for his friendship with Toback, tweeting a photograph of both men having a drink with convicted child rapist filmmaker Roman Polanski, and later tweeting, “I love how @AlecBaldwin is blocking on Twitter all my sisters who were sexually harassed and raped by his buddy #JamesToback.” Baldwin has not yet responded to the allegation.[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Baldwin has toned down his public anger in recent months, the last recorded physical encounter with a paparazzi photographer occurring in May 2016. He’s also credited his newfound peace to wife Hilaria, with whom he has three children under the age of four. Based on his Paley Center speech, he’s also newly familiar with introspection. But he remains problematic as a cultural figure, someone whose liberal politics clash uneasily with his past behaviour.


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[FONT=&quot]And in a culture that is proving every day that historical infractions, both big and small, can be exhumed to destroy you when you least expect it, it may be advisable for Baldwin to take a step back from the limelight. Whether you lean left or right, you’ll likely agree that you don’t need to take a public stance on everything.[/FONT]

 

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Scumbag liberal maggot calls his own 11 yr old daughter a brainless, rude little pig over and over.

 

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Typical Hollywood pieces of shit.
Glad their finally getting exposed.

 

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Trump-Hating “Actor” Alec Baldwin Appears Devastated As He Lists $29 Million Hampton Home Before Facing Possible Criminal Charges Over “Rust” Shooting​

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