That started out as an interesting read, but then the cussing got worse and worse, then he started rambling and lashing out, it became really pitiful and whiny in the later parts.
In the end, it came off like a long, drunken phone call.
“It came off like a drunken phone call.”
Good call there, but unlike you, I had to read the whole thing. Here’s what you missed:
He compared Mika to Margaret Dunning ( who was the comic foil in the Marx Brothers movies ). That had to hurt.
“Morning Joe was boring. Scarborough is neither eloquent nor funny.”
He said Phil Griffin, head of MSNBC, “couldn’t give a flying f**k about content.”
“The problem with everybody on MSNBC is none of them are funny, although that doesn’t prevent them from trying to be.”
“I watched MSNBC prior to working there . . . It turned out to be the same s**t all day long.”
He called Anderson Cooper the “self-appointed Jack Valenti of gay media culture.”
Baldwin didn’t realize that calling a TMZ guy a “toxic little queen” would be offensive or considered homophobic.
He said Maddow basically runs MSNBC, and he called her “a phony who doesn’t have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air.”
He regards the media as “superfluous at best and toxic at its worst.” The media measures you by “how you are on your worst day.”
“The heart, the arteries of the country are now clogged with hate.”
He considered running for office. Says he would have decentralized the schools and changed the paparazzi laws.
He would “reduce NY’s shameful tax burden.” Says he doesn’t “think liberal or progressive; just common sense.”
“Shia LaBeouf went to a film screening recently and he wore a bag over his head and the bag says I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE. And there was truly a part of me that felt sorry for him, oddly enough.”
“Warren Beatty, who is mystifyingly intelligent and wise, said to me: Your problem is a very basic one, and it’s very common to actors. And that’s when we step in front of a camera, we feel the need to make it into a moment.”
It sounded to me that the kind of show he wanted to put on MSNBC was kind of like Buckley’s Firing Line or the Dick Cavett show - albeit without the wit and intelligence.
Bye bye Alec, we hardly knew ye.