Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The Alec Baldwin Left Hook Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:25:39 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: <1144903136.735583756.202196.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <2060261334.735593780.114012.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <17c9c7d3b228c3dc$71931$3085566$c4d58e68@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:25:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2fa3cf4b5ca53a2933bc1cfc88195451"; logging-data="3989521"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18/ZgEPvvCAxr4bbYsk5uCKkc7pRf42OTk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:7PzSnJWaw5Mt56ceJjwr2BM8fY4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <17c9c7d3b228c3dc$71931$3085566$c4d58e68@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 4641 On 4/26/2024 4:40 AM, trotsky wrote: > On 4/25/24 1:53 PM, moviePig wrote: >> On 4/25/2024 12:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> On Apr 23, 2024 at 2:49:02 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" >>> wrote: >>> >>>> moviePig wrote: >>>>>   On 4/23/2024 1:04 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>>>   BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>   For once I'm on Alec's side. This girl deserved a Baldwin Shot >>>>>>> to the jaw. >>>>>> >>>>>> https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1782537868654592000/pu/vid/avc1/320x568/fUPEunTyWUNbP57L.mp4?tag=12 >>>>>>   https://apple.news/A9M48T4LsTYOCvCmG3eY14Q >>>>>>   "The agitator, who hosts a show on social media called Crackhead >>>>>> Barney & >>>>>>   Friends and is known for ambush interviews" >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.bowiecreators.com/project/crackhead-barney-and-friends-nyc-interview-fds-festival-performance-lausanne >>>>>>   "shooting and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the >>>>>> RUST movie >>>>>>   set in 2021 using a gun he did not know was loaded." >>>>>>   Nice to know they've made that determination. >>>>>>   "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or >>>>>>   redistributed." >>>>>   There's dissonance in a law that forbids him from striking her >>>>> but says >>>>>   nothing about her emphatically asking for it. >>>> The article says he hit her phone, not her. >>>> >>>> But then the article also says he didn’t know the gun was loaded. >>> >>> Do you realize how much of an obnoxious, stupid, blithering, idiot >>> scumbag you >>> have to be to make Alec Baldwin seem sympathetic; to create a video >>> that makes >>> me feel sorry for Alec Baldwin? 'Cause usually when I watch an Alec >>> Baldwin >>> video, the emotions I'm accustomed to feeling are irritation, revulsion, >>> scorn. I didn't think it was possible for someone to do or say >>> anything that >>> would make me side with Alec Baldwin, but here we are. >>> >>> In any interaction with Alec Baldwin, you automatically get the >>> benefit of the >>> doubt because you are not Alec Baldwin and he is. In order to >>> squander that >>> advantage, you have to go out of your way to be as unpleasant as humanly >>> possible. And she managed to do it in less than a minute. I mean, >>> really, >>> quite an achievement. >> >> It was almost reminiscent of BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE's finale, where >> Michael Moore hounds gun-advocate Charlton Heston around his own home. >> Later we learned that Heston was dealing with Alzheimer's, but even on >> its own the scene undercuts any humane aspect to Moore's message. > > > I mean really, you can convolute the fuck out of things but to whine > about a fuckhead who smiles about people being required to pry the gun > out of his "cold dead hands" (or skeletal bones, as the case may now be) > vs the granddaddy of mass shootings is out of whack even by your > standards.  How do you put two and two together and keep coming up with > fifty million? The point is that Moore's visible torture of a decrepit old man evoked an instinctive viewer-response that transcended policy/politics. It was a simple failure of technique, costly to his persuasiveness.