Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:37:52 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The Alec Baldwin Left Hook 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> <17c9e4bd7c6b53cc$8511$1354752$c8d58268@news.newsdemon.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:46:16 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 66 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-jEBokciUr8i81lkN9IfhnpX/npbEdApcO2vOW0b/iyE7dum8jm7/PMdNmyGI4e/gzipQet8UpZ9ubYy!9CYbZXvtg84DMGm7nJiXd9/sS6pkUX5lk49JoLmoPFwZ7JSpxSaoWnR75t+umQjlGKQAA9g3GxPv!xfs= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4564 In article <17c9e4bd7c6b53cc$8511$1354752$c8d58268@news.newsdemon.com>, trotsky wrote: > On 4/26/24 11:25 AM, moviePig wrote: > > 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. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> "The agitator, who hosts a show on social media called > >>>>>>> Crackhead Barney & Friends and is known for ambush interviews" > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> "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. > >>>>>> 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. > > I used to hang out with a guy who owned guys "That's surprising!" said no one.