NY Post
Time for another story about Alec Baldwin embarrassing himself
The “30 Rock’’ star grabbed the reporter, Tara Palmeri, by her arm and told her, “I want you to choke to death,” Palmeri told police, for whom she played an audiotape of the conversation.
Actor Alec Baldwin allegedly called a black Post photographer a racial epithet, a “crackhead’’ and a “drug dealer’’ during a confrontation on an East Village street yesterday morning, prompting police to intervene.
He then called G.N. Miller — a decorated retired detective with the NYPD’s Organized Crime Control Bureau and a staff photographer for The Post — a “coon, a drug dealer,’’ Miller’s police statement said.
At one point, Miller showed Baldwin ID to prove he’s a retired NYPD cop, which Baldwin dismissed as “fake.”
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Racial epithets aren’t racial when you’re liberal, they’re more like verbal missteps and should be forgotten.
Bishop on February 18, 2013 at 10:08 AM
Not to defend Baldwin, but, since when are ‘crackhead’ and a ‘drug dealer’ considered racial epithets?
Pork-Chop on February 18, 2013 at 10:08 AM
Many of his friends on the left would rather he order a drone strike on her. That’s the accepted method of “dispatching” folks these days…..
ted c on February 18, 2013 at 10:10 AM
More proof that Hollywood doesn’t offer anything worth emulating.
beatcanvas on February 18, 2013 at 10:10 AM
That’s what the folks outside the consulate in Benghazi wanted on 9/11 too…..
matter of fact, well, nevermind…
ted c on February 18, 2013 at 10:11 AM
“Coon!?!” This d-bag is going to get away with “coon!?!”
George Allen had to be destroyed because of “macaca,” which I still don’t even understand, but Alec Baldwin will get a pass on “coon.”
Amazing.
Kensington on February 18, 2013 at 10:12 AM
By all means, let us continue to allow our liberal betters to educate us on the treatment of people in society. /
ted c on February 18, 2013 at 10:13 AM
You missed “coon”?
Kensington on February 18, 2013 at 10:13 AM
Make room at the podium Senator Menendez, Baldwin will be receiving his War On Women Iron Cross as well. Oak Leaves and Swords included for his vigorous actions in the Race Hate Campaign as well.
forest on February 18, 2013 at 10:15 AM
Alec Baldwin’s views on Alec Baldwin.
ted c on February 18, 2013 at 10:15 AM
I was thinking that too, but I noticed the wording, where they said “a racial epithet, a “crackhead’’ and a “drug dealer’”, meaning that he said the epithet (read: the nword) PLUS crackhead and drug dealer. I’m just glad he’s not on our side, embarrassing us every two years.
thebrokenrattle on February 18, 2013 at 10:15 AM
It’s like he can’t help himself…
JohnGalt23 on February 18, 2013 at 10:17 AM
His wife is currently getting sued by some dude in her Yoga class. No, really….stop laughing, she’s getting sued by some dude in her Yoga class…
ted c on February 18, 2013 at 10:18 AM
Rhetorical Flourish.
blatantblue on February 18, 2013 at 10:19 AM
At least he didn’t say that, “Back in the day, you’d be fetching us coffee.” did he? Whew….that’d be something. /
ted c on February 18, 2013 at 10:21 AM
Is that how it works with our intellectual betters? The cops show the Liberal Betters their IDs while the rest of us proles show the cops our IDs??? WTF?
ted c on February 18, 2013 at 10:22 AM
I’ll take it that NBC approves of Baldwin’s aggressive racism and misogyny unless Baldwin is canned by 4:00pm.
An example needs to made of NBC.
forest on February 18, 2013 at 10:23 AM
Ok, apparently, coon, not the nword
thebrokenrattle on February 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM
When will Capital One fire their spokesman..?
d1carter on February 18, 2013 at 10:25 AM
NBC condones, pays for, and supports racists within their compound! They support this. The only penance is that Alec Baldwin is thrown from the 30th floor of Rockefeller Center. Anything less is unacceptable.
Justice for Retired Cops Now!
Freedom from Our NBC Corporate Racist Oppressors!
…or something…
ted c on February 18, 2013 at 10:26 AM
Where is Whoopi to help explain this away away?? We cannot interpret Alec Baldwin’s statements without the filter of the democratico-liberal-entertainment complex for we are nowhere nears intelligent enough to do that. Nuance, my friends,….nuance.
ted c on February 18, 2013 at 10:29 AM
The cop obviously wasn’t as clean and articulate as Bark.
Bishop on February 18, 2013 at 10:29 AM
It’s all a right wing conspiracy. Liberals never ever make threatening, demeaning or racist comments, nor do they think them.
Besides, if he did say those things he was simply being satirical. That’s why the greatest artistes are all liberal.
Besides, the NY Post leans conservative so those two had it coming to them anyway.
Drained Brain on February 18, 2013 at 10:31 AM
Alec is a Party member and and enthusiastic supporter of Comrade Chairman O. So he has a free get-out-of-racism-charges card he can use whenever he wants. If there was a “misunderstanding” he will apologize and all will be forgotten by the next Party meeting.
farsighted on February 18, 2013 at 10:31 AM
as long as Alec issued a few “ha-ha-has” he can say it was just a comedy act. Anyone failing to recognize it as comedy is an idiot and has no business being within 30 feet of this great artiste./
ted c on February 18, 2013 at 10:34 AM
Everyone knows Alec Baldwin rides the edge of lunacy, among other things living in the bizzaro world’s ‘do you know who I am’.
But what’s with the clown show reporting team lying in wait for Baldwin’s dog walk, complete with some dickhead flashing his officially issued retired cop card. You know what a retired cop is? Not a cop.
This is nothing less than vulgar meets vulgar or a jerks meetup, as far as I’m concerned.
Dusty on February 18, 2013 at 10:48 AM
Seriously, Baldwin was really great on 30 Rock playing an egotistical, self-absorbed gasbag.
But was it acting?
Northside on February 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM
So in other words, it’s a day ending in “y”.
HerneTheHunter on February 18, 2013 at 10:53 AM
This seals it. Alec Baldwin is running for office.
steebo77 on February 18, 2013 at 10:54 AM
this is compassion folks….. liberal compassion on display….
ted c on February 18, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Just another reason why I love NY…what might cause a small crowd to gather in other cities doesn’t warrant even a second look here.
That photog should have ran with that accusation…loudly proclaiming that Baldwin owed him $10,000 bucks for the crack he bought last month.
JetBoy on February 18, 2013 at 11:42 AM
I don’t think he currently works for NBC.
Kensington on February 18, 2013 at 12:59 PM