Friday, May 09, 2008
Alec Baldwin wants to run for office
Outspoken liberal actor Alec Baldwin wants to run for political office. I think we all need to encourage him:
Baldwin told "60 Minutes" he would be ready to face the public and the press, in part because of the scrutiny that accompanied his divorce and custody battle with actress Kim Basinger.
In April 2007 a voicemail by Baldwin to his daughter in which he called her a "thoughtless little pig" was widely reported in newspapers, magazines and on television.
"If you go through the things I have gone through with the media like this thing with my daughter, there's only one thing that comes to mind initially -- that is how my daughter must have felt to have this played out in public," Baldwin said.
Still, he seemed no less outspoken now than he was before his divorce. He had earlier called his ex-wife's lawyer a "300-pound homunculus with a face like a clenched fist."
"I was being kind," Baldwin told interviewer Morley Safer.
Yes, it is hard to think of a greater boon to righty blog traffic than Alec Baldwin in an actual political campaign.
4 Comments:
By 
, at
Fri May 09, 10:05:00 AM:
"60 Minutes?" There can't be two other entities that deserve each other better, that fit so well together, as Baldwin and CBS.
By , at
Fri May 09, 12:27:00 PM:
Someone has to put the "BS" into it before it becomes "CBS".
Run, Forest, run! Er, Alec.
Whatever.
-David
By 
Viking Kaj, at
Fri May 09, 12:44:00 PM:
Boy, I already thought Hillary was the ultimate boon to righty blog traffic.
Is there any chance we can get Oprah to run for something other than Queen of the World?
By , at
Sun May 11, 11:43:00 AM:
Alec Baldwin is scum he sure to run as a demacrook since he is a jerk
