I’m usually pretty luke-warm about Sean Hannity’s radio show, but I utterly tremble in anticipation of his weighing in on this one…

Blacklake on April 20, 2007 at 11:47 AM

I don’t usually listen to Hannity, but I was running errands during lunch hour and heard him:

He started off saying that he interpreted Baldwin’s message as a threat of physical violence, then talked about how everyone missed all the obvious signs that the Virginia Tech shooter had serious issues, and circled back saying something to the effect that something has to be done – this time we have clear evidence that he is unbalanced, and something has to be done.

The prognosis for his head-ectomy is not good. I believe it may be too firmly lodged. What a tool.

Despite AB’s behavior, it is KB who is out of line. She clearly released the voicemail to get back at AB. SHE doesn’t care about the child. Now everyone knows how her dad went off on her. Even if it wasn’t out of control, would any preteen want to be chastised in front of her peers let alone the whole country?!

I also think it wasn’t so horrendous. The pig part was too much. Maybe you all will say I had an abusive mother, but this sounded like a pretty normal scolding when I had tweaked my parent, on purpose, one too many times.

By the way, I did not see anyone post that he had apologized. Whether becuase it got leaked or not, he did apologize. Now we have to see if KB will do the same for leaking the voicemail.

PS I think the daughter is in California so it would have been 7pm her time.

The Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Zaslow has an outstanding column on the “most praised generation” as it heads off to the workplace. And yes, this is the time for my weekly harangue about how you should be subscribing to the Journal’s on-line edi…

The Army is pitched as a chance to start your life over. To do something meaningful. To be somebody. To be a part of something where guns and aggression and codes of honor are taken out of the illegal gang arena and shifted over to “serving the American people.”

I’m thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would, all right now, all of us together would go down to the Baldwin mansion and we would stone Alec Baldwin to death. We would stone him to death. We would stone Alec Baldwin to death and we would go to his home and we’d kill his ex-wife and their children. We would kill their families.

/new tone

While what he did is despicable, the mother and her lawyer leaked this sealed material in violation of a court order.

Entelechy on April 20, 2007 at 1:42 AM

Keep in mind, she wasn’t the only one to have access to this.

As to the court order, why should it be kept private? When someone calls you and leaves you a message, they have no right to privacy. And who’s to say that it wasn’t made public before it was given to the judge? I’m certainly not going to go by what Alec’s spokesman says.

- The Cat

While what he did is despicable, the mother and her lawyer leaked this sealed material in violation of a court order.

UPDATE: A friend of Alec Baldwin’s just contacted TMZ to say that the actor called Ireland last week and apologized for his outburst. The friend added that Ireland is the most important thing in the world to Alec and that he is frustrated because over the last six years, Kim has “tried everything” to alienate Ireland from him.

Seems to me that Alec “Schwetty Balls” Baldwin is doing a great job of alienating his daughter all by himself. Why is he playing the blame game? Typical liberal, it’s always someone elses fault. Perhaps this wouldn’t have happened if he’d just been a man, instead of a little boy, and moved out of the country like he threatened to do if Bush were to be reelected in 2004.

What an a$$hole of a father to say anything like that to his little girl.

…he just sounds an angry dad worried about his daughter.

WORRIED!?!?
“You have insulted me for the last time…You have humiliated me for the last time with this phone…”
AB: “Parenting – it’s all about the children me.”

Alec needs a crash course in why it’s not nice to beat your wife and kids. Maybe Adam Baldwin could take him aside and give him a loving, brotherly punch to the face until Alec realizes why hitting loved ones isn’t done.

this would come of course after we speculate that he also rapes his daugter. that would be established with a post which would go something like, “one thing i can’t help but notioce is that this doesn’t sound like a father scolding his daughter at all. it sounds more like an angry ex-boyfriend…”

yadda yadda, a couple of amens and all that’s left is to make bawldwin emblematic of his entire political class. this is accomplished by exporting the meme to every other forum imaginable. you could go to, for instance, a hiliary08 video on youtube and leave a comment something roughly like, “i can’t believe you’re supporting a candidate of the party of alec rapes and beats his daughter bawldwin.”

this being a paralel fantacy world where the right posesses the left’s energy to repeat the meme a trillion million times from every livejournal page and college mailserve, the effect is quite defeating, because the first forty hits for a google search of “alec bawldwin” would already return pages mentioning primarily the incident with the daughter.

but all of this would require the sort of monomaniacal, focussed permanent rage against anything which diverges from one’s point of view which the left possesses and we, i’m thankful to say, do not. i mean, this thread is dead already. the comparable kos thread would be at 600 comments by now.

So shines a light in a dim world. Thanks for saying that.

Glynn on April 19, 2007 at 10:51 PM

What jummy/Glynn said

BTW any word on a preview function?

Glynn on April 19, 2007 at 10:51 PM

What jummy/Glynn said

i’ll say this: if i saw a man abusing his eleven year old daughter like this on a public street, i’d do what i could to make sure that girl rested safely in protective custody that night. the father maybe in the hospital.

jummy on April 19, 2007 at 10:07 PM

So shines a light in a dim world. Thanks for saying that.