Alec Baldwin's voice-mail tirade
If you call your 11-year-old daughter a "rude, thoughtless little pig," you might turn a few heads. If you add that she "doesn't have the brains or the decency" of a human being, you'll get even more unwanted attention.
But if you then call your daughter's mom a "thoughtless pain in the (expletive)," and that mom is Kim Basinger, you're the talk of Hollywood.
In other words, not a good day for Alec Baldwin. But it would probably be a typical day for his character on 30 Rock. Maybe he's having trouble getting out of character when filming ends.
Comments
I don’t know when I have been so upset about the lack of professionalism, common sense, respect, and limits the media will go to for ratings.
The harm of Alec Baldwin’s phone tirade to his daughter is only outdone by his opposition in this nasty, protracted custody battle who released it, and the media who have aired it over and over – every single word of it! It never should have been said. Having been said, making it public was equally wrong and shows the tit-for-tat madness this child is enduring. That it was aired, shows the media’s total disrespect for decency.
None of any of these people, not Baldwin nor Basinger this innocent 11-year-year old’s mother or father…nor the press…has any concern for the child who is being humiliated over and over and over again! The parents involved have their reasons, albeit bad ones, for being so upset. The media is without any redeemable excuse whatsoever to exploit people shamelessly.
Fox’s Inside Edition brought on their “expert” – a psychologist to explain the permanent lifelong damage the phone call will do to this child. How can you air those words while knowingly contributing to, and exacerbating publicly the personal harm already experienced by this child? Replaying it is like repeatedly raping and flagging this vulnerable child in the public square. What happened to not releasing victims’ names??? What happened to any decorum whatsoever? Sweeps week sweeps it all away!
Children should never be subjected to such hate – on the part of either, much less both – of their parents. Both parents, and the media should be found guilty of child abuse!
Posted by: Mirah | April 23, 2007 11:04 AM