Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!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: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:53:31 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <1144903136.735583756.202196.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <2060261334.735593780.114012.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.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: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:53:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fe77adb71738f178d58fa0cc18f3108e"; logging-data="3327916"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX187zdJhwvbT0FJR4c+IKFED6iaHzJJ68T0=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:xHmWDVZqs8lVVq5spubV70kcjHk= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3778 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 "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or 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.