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.
Just hope he’ll write it in France.
Seems Baldwin is more of an expert on psychological abuse of young daughters.
Alec Baldwin tends to demonstrate why they award custody of the kids to the mothers. This ain’t gonna help change that equation.
http://www.celiberal.com/showCeliberal.php?id=1
They voted on one article of impeachment already. And I come back from Africa to stained dresses and cigars and this and impeachment. I am thinking to myself, in other countries they are laughing at us 24 hours a day and I’m thinking to myself, if we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, [starts to shout] all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! [crowd cheers] Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families. [stands up, yelling] What is happening in this country? What is happening? UGHHH!
I wish anyone—anyone at all—besides Baldwin would write such a book. American men are subject to the most terrible abuses from the court system, and the fact needs to be addressed. American fathers are demonized. I say this as a woman who sees it in friends and family members. But for Baldwin to write this absolutely sets the cause back years.
He’s just yapping.
Soon enough, he’ll knock up Tina Fey or some other NY bimbette and Ireland will be off of his radar.
I wouldn’t know. I’m not married (and not by choice). :-|
And he's hoping what?... That people will get confused and mix him up with a poor, innocent, divorced father, forgetting that he's a divorced maniac? Alec Baldwin is to divorced fathers what Pol Pot is to former presidents.
>Yeag,,,his recent outburst wa really “researdh” for his book.<
Just wait until that little 11 year old daughter grows up and writes HER book on “Children of Divorce”. (And it looks like it might be a heavy book.)
Baldwin has shown himself not mature enough to have a rational thought, let alone a tender way with innocent and impressionable children. Even if his ex has colored the child’s feelings about her father, and I’m not saying she has, Baldwin has no business taking it out on his daughter.
So a guy who beats his wife and mentally abuses his daughter is going to write a book about the injustices of the family court system?! Yeah right.
Wow! another thing Baldwin is an expert in. No, two things. Now he’s a writer, and an expert on divorce based on his one, partial experience.
Can’t wait to read it (barf).
Alec Baldwin has been an a**hole for quite a long time. Before, he was merely a political a**hole who ridiculed all that was right and good. Now we realize that those who ridicule all that is right and good, also ridicule their own children. Alec Baldwin is the very picture of selfish shallowness, who only laments his loss of a genuine family relationship because it limits his chances to do a Lexus commercial. It is better that he goes off to that retirement spa and gripes to the masseuse as he stiffs the waiter who brought him his fresh cheese and whine. No tiny violins for you, Alec. Only an embarrassing fading star, forgotten somewhere in France among the jaded nobodys.
I was engaged to my soulmate (for 3 years), but didn’t expect she’d abandon me. It’s been 3 1/2 years now since she left, and I haven’t found anyone since (and fast approaching my mid 30s, it gets worse by the day). As they say, perhaps it’s a good thing there’s no gun in the house, or I might’ve had it for a snack. A lot of the time, I have quite the appetite for it.
I would much rather read a book from a really wronged dad, rather than something from this narcissistic blow hard who’s out to deflect criticism of his verbal abuse of his daughter.
Rosie O’Donald and Alec Baldwin — now that’s a pair made for hate!
Let's not forget Alec is a complete f***ing ass and a pathetic excuse for a man and even worse for a father.
Alternate title: "Liberal claims injustice in liberal policies"
Why, that rude little pig.
You wrote: “I was engaged to my soulmate (for 3 years), but didn’t expect she’d abandon me. “
Three years seems a rather long time to be engaged. Long enough to make me wonder what it was you were engaged to do.
Further, if she’s been in absentia for 3.5 years, I would say it’s not likely she was your soulmate.
Your hint that you’ve been/are contemplating suicide due to your lack of a love life doesn’t make me want to pity you, which it seems that you’re soliciting from the readers of this thread. Instead of mooning over your past or what might have been, put in the same effort to find someone special. Once you find her, marry her.
We’ve all loved and lost, my FRiend. Please don’t let someone else dictate your joy and lust for life.
Baldwin isn’t so bad after all. This will put him out of favor with the radical man-hating feminazis.
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Well, that would explain why he ran to Rosie for a forum.
But what explains his feeling Rosie's thigh? :-)
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