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In a confrontation with Trump impersonator Jason Scoop, the famously hot-tempered Alec Baldwin behaved more or less the way you’d expect him to: he threatened to kill Jason Scoop, although he did so more quietly and calmly than some might have predicted. Still, Baldwin’s quietly spoken threat to murder a comedian is noteworthy in light of the fact that he did, after all, kill a woman in 2021, and because of the media’s reaction, or lack thereof. If Baldwin had been a Trump supporter who threatened to murder a leftist comedian, do you think the media might have reacted differently?
Viewing the video of the confrontation that Scoop posted on X Monday, it’s actually easy to feel sympathetic toward Baldwin, at least until the notorious bully opens his mouth. Scoop repeatedly chides him for his “murder” of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins; whatever one may think of the America-hating and far-left Baldwin, he has never been charged with murder over the shooting of Hutchins and has maintained that it was a “tragic accident.”
Anyone might lose his cool over being repeatedly accused of a murder. Baldwin started out by quite reasonably pointing out that his children lived in the building outside of which Jason Scoop was accusing him of murder, and clearly, as he maintains that no murder occurred, Baldwin didn’t want his kids to hear him being accused in this way. But Alec Baldwin being Alec Baldwin, he very quickly crosses the line.
“If this camera wasn’t here,” Baldwin tells the fake Trump, “I’d snap your f**kin’ neck in half and break your f**kin neck, right, as you know that, don’t you?” A bit later, Baldwin issues a new threat: “I’ll take that camera and I’ll shove it up your a**.” And so all in all, it was just another day in the life of Alec Baldwin.
Fox News found this incident newsworthy, and it was. Baldwin is a high-profile actor, as well as one of the most prominent and vociferous critics of President Trump. Many have insisted that he got off far too lightly over his shooting of Halyna Hutchins and that this leniency was yet another example of the Biden regime’s two-tier justice system, which repeatedly gave leftists a slap on the wrist for the most heinous of crimes while framing patriots for “insurrection” and treating praying Catholics and angry parents at school board meetings as terrorists.
And so Fox News published a report on Monday, duly reporting that Baldwin “appeared to nearly come to blows with a comedian Sunday night near his apartment in Manhattan. Baldwin, 66, appeared to be unloading luggage from a vehicle in New York City when a Donald Trump impersonator noticed the Emmy Award-winning actor. After a vocal back-and-forth between the pair on the street, Baldwin physically threatened to snap the comedian’s ‘neck in half.’”
Over at CNN, however, it’s a different world. The most trusted name in news apparently did not consider a story about a famous actor issuing a death threat to be worthy of notice, but it did run a story on Monday about Alec Baldwin. The headline was “Alec Baldwin was diagnosed with PTSD after ‘Rust’ shooting, his wife says on new reality show.”
The story doesn’t mention the confrontation with Jason Scoop; Scoop posted his video about an hour and a half after the CNN story appeared. Nevertheless, the CNN story could have been written to order by someone who was trying to reprieve Baldwin’s reputation after the Scoop confrontation. CNN quotes Baldwin’s wife, the fake Hispanic “Hilaria,” saying: “Everyone who is close to Alec has see his mental health decline. He was diagnosed with PTSD.”
Why, the poor lamb. It’s nice, however, for Baldwin, in the midst of this mental health decline, to have CNN so assiduously running interference for him. That’s the perks of being a leftist, and it also leads to a question: if Alec Baldwin were an America-First Trump supporter, and Jason Scoop were a far-left provocateur, do you think CNN would have ignored the incident? Neither do I.
Alec Baldwin is a living manifestation of leftist privilege, of the perks one enjoys if one toes the line and proves useful in the left’s war on free society and quest for authoritarian control. He is Exhibit A of the double standard not only in the justice system, but in the media, and new confirmation of the fact that the establishment media news outlets are really just propaganda arms of the far left.
And so now this man who has already killed one woman can threaten to kill a man and walk away scot-free. Because, as we all know, the real problem is Donald Trump, and Baldwin has been solidly anti-Trump. That’s how the system works.
Yes. I get it now. Alec Baldwin is turning into Joe Biden.
Except that Alzheimer Joe is a frail, old, loudmouthed pussy and asshole who was a loudmouthed pussy and asshole when he was young, and Alec Baldwin is a loudmouthed old guy who isn’t a pussy, just an asshole.
How old are you? I always say we should cut hgh school and college aged kids some slack for using that kind of language. I went through a phase of using it myself. If you’re over about 26, it’s time you grew up.
I have no problem with this language, despite my own extensive vocabulary. At bottom, it accurately places the writer’s anger for all to see, and does not require any further exposition. I would rather see this than a pseudo-intellectual screed that might blur the lines between the writer’s feelings and his/her sense of decorum. Policing this kind of speech negates the emotional state of the writer, and if we mute that we tend to also ignore intent. Get off your high horse and look a little deeper. People are hurting, and this is how many of them express themselves in the absence of concrete solutions to today’s problems.
Well written. I appreciate that.
I agree with Ginger,, in “Black Beaity,” that bad words were made for bad things.
Miranda, you are just Sooooooooooo sophisticato. How can us lowlifes possibly go on?
I believe Jeff is in his 50s or early 60s. So I don’t think he is going to listen to you.
I’m 60 (shit) so you’re right, I wouldn’t change if I could at this point. Besides, I like it when the chicks I’m with cuss. It relaxes me.
PTSD — Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD — Pussified Sexually Transmitted Disease
* ••• the second being PSTD …
Actually, that’s very funny
(Allan Goldstein’s comment.)
No, I don’t think so. I picked up that foul language from the chicks I know and it’s part of me now. I could go back to normal if I stopped seeing them but that isn’t going to happen. Foul language is a part of life. Sorry if it offends you but…….
Baldwin violated 3 primary rules when handling a pistol…
AB did not check to see if it was loaded!
AB pointed the weapon at a person!
AB pulled the trigger! Baldwin should be in jail!!!😕
Young is a lefty dipshit but he has some great songs. Baldwin probably has this one as his theme song.
There are a whole lot of songs about girls being murdered by their sweethearts: “Pearl Bryan;” “Lula Vyers;” “Tom Dooley;” “,Banks of the Ohio;” many country-western numbers.
…this was to be for a film called “Rust” … and ends up putting us in mind of Neil Young (he of ‘Rust Never Sleeps’), who began his solo string of classics with “Down By The River”. …
Circles within circles
You may very well be right, but I would still like to kmow what live ammunition was doing on a movie set.
Finally! The 3 rules of gun safety! 🙂
Just another leftest Hollywood Hate Monger to add to our Boycott List the very same Alec Baldwin who wanted Hyde and his whole family Stoned the very same Baldwin who ruined Classic kinds book(Cat in the Hat)with a rotten Movie and dose stupid ads for PETA and wrote book about Child Care fir Single Fathers that wasn’t a Best Seller and we can add another name to our Boycott List
Someday, Alec Baldwin is going to threaten someone who is making a western movie and has a loaded finger.
There’s something I always thought was strange about Alec Baldwin killing Halyma Hutchins, may she rest in peace. If I understand correctly, he shot hervwith a gun he thought was loaded with BLANKS. What was LIVE AMMUNITION doing on a movie set?
As the esteemed ACE over at Ace of Spades HQ so perfectly puts it “Our Speech is violence but their violence is speech.” And of course their Speech is absolutely permissible regardless of content and intent.
Alec Baldwin? Who cares.
“Put that coffee down. Coffee is for closers”
Alec, you ain’t no closer. Just a loudmouthed loser.
See what happens when you drop the ‘c’?
Witty, but he was actually pretty good in that svene.
Was Sven in that scene? I must have missed him.
Gee, you could have upvoted me for that comment. Guess I wasn’t witty enough, huh.
Dear Intrepid: You are right. It was careless of me not to notice the typo.
You have to admit, he made a great asshole in “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Apparently, he has a lot of practice in his real life.
That was a great movie. David Mamet is as good a writer as he is a director. Or was. The guy hasn’t made anything since 1010. Too bad.
2010, not 1010. He’s old but not that old.
Thanks for clearing that up. Now please inform the SSA that he was not actually born in the ‘900s.
He did a send up of that scene for SNL where he played Kris Kringle who comes to Santa’s workshop with new tools and lectures the workers about how they won’t get them because they have fallen behind with the old tools.
Other than that and the actual movie I have no use for Baldwin.
Mamet hasn’t done much since he became a Conservative and wrote ‘The Secret Knowledge’ a few years back in 2012.
Mamet has been on a journey. He still might come out with another classic.
I didn’t read his book but I read his article “Why I am no Longer a Brain Dead Liberal.”
I saw his last movie “Red Belt” which is low-key and good. He always brings out the best in his actors, just like Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, the Coen Brothers and Michael Bay do. Yes, Michael Bay. He may be an action movie director but he’s a great director.
I guess I’ll have to watch the few shorts Mamet made up until 2010 unless he makes another movie. He can still do it. He’s 78 but that’s 10 years younger than Martin Scorsese, who’s making a movie that looks cool with Dwayne Johnson and Leonardo DiCaprio. Hell, Clint Eastwood is 94 and that guy will probably die on a movie set. So hopefully Mamet will write another screenplay and direct a movie again.
These candy pants Hollywoods are completely unimpressive. Some of them are entertaining, even skilled, actors yet without a script the lot should stay in tinsel town quietly and out of sight.
I couldn’t care less about their ignorant, unstudied opinions.
Dear Mr. Spencer: Are you perhaps overreacting? Everybody says to somebody “I’ll kill you.” You never said it? Scoop was being pretty obnoxious, and that’s putting mildly.
I couldn’t agree more. Why indeed would someone goad a weak and troubled person like that? Some people are volatile and need to be left alone.
i cannot stand the man and his language was a tad to colorful. however he was being harassed by this idiot and frankly i think i would. have lost my temper as well
This is why we should not allow violent murderers on streets. Perhaps the threatened will apply that action to Baldwins felon neck?
Baldwin came off like an absurd but dark cartoon character not unlike Jeff Dunham’s puppet Achmed the Dead Terrorist. Baldwin may as well have shouted, “Silence. I keel you!” Behind Baldwin’s bravado stands a pathetic little man.
What if Baldwin’s neck is snapped first ?!
If Baldwin is going to be Intolerant and Hostile then HE MUST LEAVE and the Exits on the Left
What relevance does Alec have? I only know of him b/c he killed that lady.
I could not name a single, well, anything, he has done. If he is an actor. I must be watching the wrong shows. Has he been on Andy Griffith?
What he really is, is a loud mouth assh*le who believes people care about his opinion, Here in flyover red country, nobody cares what he says.
Hasn’t made a single movie worth bothering with to see