Posted on 04/30/2007 8:15:52 PM PDT by familyop
Los Angeles - Hollywood star Alec Baldwin, who has provoked a furor over harsh words to his daughter in a phone message, plans to write a book about the injustices done to divorced fathers, a media report said Saturday.
Baldwin, whose ex is actress Kim Basinger, stated his intention about the book on the ABC television talk show, The View, in the midst of a discussion about 'parental alienation,' The New York Times reported.
To have enough time to write the book, Baldwin mused that he might leave the successful TV comedy series, 30 Rock.
Baldwin left an abusive voicemail on his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland's, phone recently, calling her a 'thoughtless little pig.' The voice recording was leaked to the media, sparking a nationwide debate in the celebrity gossip columns about the conduct of actors.
The couple separated in 2000 after seven years of marriage, but continue to fight over custody of Ireland.
Basinger has denied allegations that she was behind the leaking of the audio track, and has called Baldwin 'unstable and irrational.' The internet website TMZ.com published the conversation.
After hearing the tape, a judge temporarily barred Baldwin from having any contact with Ireland, and a full hearing on the matter is set for next week.
He can thank the ultra left woman’s movement this. Schadenfreude.
This is obscene and I hope no publisher will take him up on this proposal. There are so many fathers who have behaved perfectly and still been subjected to horribly unjust treatment. They don’t deserve to have an unstable hothead purporting to speak for them, and inevitably weakening the case for better legal protections for fathers. Baldwin is a poster-boy for the “screw the fathers” trend in our legal system.
Much as I despise Alec Baldwin, everything he says about fathers’ rights and the FemiNazi dominated divorce and family courts is accurate. I would actually read his book.
Maybe he will now become a conservative, since that he realizes that he is a victim of liberal court-enabled parental alienation.
Well said
I've been through a custody battle and the first thing I learned was "always assume your conversations are being recorded". But to leave a voice mail, that is beyond stupid. I think he really is a danger to the girl if he can't keep it together on the phone, God help her if she ticks him off when they are alone.
Yeah ... his recent outburst was really “research” for his book.
For the way he treated Ireland, his nickname henceforth should be “Potato Famine.”
I haven’t seen more generalized hatred and blame against fathers than in a personal letter from Brownback a long time ago. Another Republican politician once said that regardless of what Republicans do to fathers, fathers will continue to vote for them. He was right. Our Republican congressmen followed their harems and their hypocrisies to vote in favor of the Clintons’ VAWA and “Child Support” Act. But I’ve continued to vote Republican—even when many Freepers voted for the Clintons in the mid-90s. ...don’t know why for sure. Maybe my votes were for our defense, alliance with Israel, delusion that they would kill family breaking social programs, and the like. It’s bad that we’re not taking care of business with Iran and are giving Israel the shaft through Rice.
I was a single parent father and fought my battles alone. I sure as hell would have no use for Alex Baldwin trying to represent my cause. Yes there is a lot of injustice in divorce and custodial laws. But Baldwin is a poor excuse for leading the cause. His telephone rant to his daughter was disgusting.
I can imagine the injustices he’s experienced. I mean, he breaks his hand on Kim’s face, and HE has to pay the medical bills? It was her face that broke HIS hand. That’s just beyond the pale.
I can imagine the injustices he’s experienced. I mean, he breaks his hand on Kim’s face, and HE has to pay the medical bills? It was her face that broke HIS hand. That’s just beyond the pale.
Interesting post. Maybe this will be a road to Damascus conversion for him. I say everyone has their own defined line that the libs eventually cross. That line is not always in the same place for each of us. Once the libs cross that line, the blinders are removed. Maybe Alec’s blinders have been removed.
Amen, except that I would say that Alex is more of a poster-boy for the “he had it coming to him” trend...
“Alex, shut up and, well just shut up!”
Will it be in French?
It’s still all about him.
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