Actor compares 2000 election to Sept. 11-Alec Baldwin says disputed vote damaged democracy

Tallahassee Democrat ^ | Posted on Fri, Mar. 08, 2002 | By Bill Cotterell

[God'sgrrl]

The one thing I'll never forget: Baldwin appeared on Politically Incorrect and the subject was the Bush tax refund, a conservative asked him whether or not he thought it would be nice to have some extra cash in his pocket: Alec said "oh yeah, that small amount is already burning a hole in my pocket."

If you ask me, I think he's a greedy rich millionaire with no campassion. The only thing he's concerned about is getting a prochoice leftist in office so he can mess around and not worry about it. That tax refund was a nice blessing from Bush. My husband works and I stay at home with the kids.

[Stallone]

Baldwin, you piece of $hit, go #uck yourself.

There. Feel better already.

[Stallone]

Baldwin is the case-in-point of the danger of mixing Hollywood celebrity with politics.

Politically Incorrect placed Nobel Prize thinkers in the same forum as children playing 'pretend' with the inevitable result that the viewing public equalized the validity of their political insight.

And it played into the enormous self-importance of the celebrity idiots.

By trading their celebrity cache to Clinton in return for 'access' to the wheels of government, both 'benefitted' at the expense of the American public.

Ron Howard's views on Somalia are a waste of air time.

What Sandra Bernhard has to say about anything does not in the least interest me, let alone 'its' views on American foreign or domestic policy.

By the way, Baldwin is still a piece of $hit who can go #uck himself.

[lawdude]

"Alec Baldwin says disputed vote damaged democracy"

Damn good thing we are NOT a democracy!

[RummyChick]

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[abclily]

What is Alec Baldwin's background? He has studied history? Political science? World affairs? What qualifies him to wear a flight suit? Is this man insane? Or just a stupid puppet?

[summer]

Gov. Bush made two terrific judicial appointements recently, one new judge is a highly qulaified Korean immigrant, who came to FL at age 11, and the other is a black male. But all we hear about is Alec. Maybe you could even things out by bumpinig this thread: re: Jeb

[Charles Henrickson]

Mr. Conductor has lost his sparkle.

Mr. Conductor has lost his clout at the box office.

Mr. Conductor has lost his place in the script.

[Windy-Dave]

To all the mental cripples who love their so called democracy. America Is a Constitutional Republic who elects REPRESENTATIVES that WORK FOR US! Not The OTHER WAY AROUND!A democracy is the purest form of REPRESSION! No wonder dictators and despots love to espouse and tout our form of government as a democracy! Conservatives believe in principles that work for all citizens rights equally and allows free expression.

Get it right, tommy-teddy & alec quit lying and confusing the facts!

[Charles Henrickson]

Mr. Conductor has lost his wife.

[felinesforever]

Alec Baldwin is mentle. And he SUCKS!!!!!

[let freedom sing]

Only in a democracy, can a vote be disputed. Baldwin should shut his mounth and leave the country-- like he said he would.

[McGavin999]

He said the White House and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, along with the governor and other Republican leaders, are banking on the news media and voters staying distracted by the war on terrorism.

Yeah, that's right you moron. Three thousand dead Americans is just a distraction! You need to crawl back into your hole Baldwin before you make one of your idiotic comments to the kind of people who will punch your lights out.

[Ipberg]

I thought the South Park mission to the Baldwin estate had succeeded. Damn.

[CWRWinger]

IMO, people watch too many movies as an escape from reality. It makes them 'feel good'. The media of movies may cause some to blur the distinction between what is played out on a screen and reality. They then see a movie star making a political statement and assign to that actor the credibility which was given to him on the big screen by the screen writer, producer, PR guy, etc. When in reality, the screen star is nothing but a zero with the circle rubbed out, like old Alec here.

I don't go to movies (haven't for a long time) and I don't own a TV. Both are a waste of time and money. Both are used by overwhelmingly left-wing establishments to promote their propaganda and brainwashing and unbalanced perspective of what life is about. And life is not about what idiots like Alec are about.

Besides, this lopsided, left leaning take on life which comes out of Hollywood, is loaded with BAD yankee philosophy and thinking and culture.

[Hotline]

he's a lie-beral big mouth with money, face-recognition, access to the media, and a message that is simpatico with those who provide him the air-time. And that's what our free press has become.

He is all that, and he also had the (good for him, bad for us) fortune to speak at the A&M breakfast supposedly commemorating a successful march on Tallahassee two years ago. That's the only reason he got column inches.

I know Bill Cotterell, the reporter on this particular piece. While I don't agree with everything he writes, he's usually pretty fair. He covers the capitol, and was probably tossed this assignment because it's a "hollywood star" -- something we don't see a lot of here in our little armpit of the state -- and wrote the only news he saw in that room.

Alec Baldwin is news only because Alec Baldwin *was* news -- in a car-wreck, turn-your-head-to-stare kind of way -- when he said he'd leave the country if Bush were elected. Note they don't ask him to comment on Middle Eastern policy, or the economy, or anything that really matters. Nor would they...he's only an "expert" on hating Bush and making a spectacle of himself about the subject.

And that's the only reason they invited him to speak, too.

[Senator Goldwater]

My sentiments exactly.