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 15:03:19 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 91 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> <17c9e4bd7c6b53cc$8511$1354752$c8d58268@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 21:03:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2fa3cf4b5ca53a2933bc1cfc88195451"; logging-data="4060365"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1//0IfWLkt+vbWzIA40XrLY6CbrALw2yBA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mx3DiaLCDD8LU2rxzFPU+6SthKc= In-Reply-To: <17c9e4bd7c6b53cc$8511$1354752$c8d58268@news.newsdemon.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 5851 On 4/26/2024 1:30 PM, 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. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 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   "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or 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. > > > Speak for yourself.  Just because you are sympathetic to an asshole > doesn't mean the bulk of the audience was.  The reviewers weren't > either.  The NRA transformed themselves into a bunch of sick fucks, and > Heston was the head asshole before he did us the favor of dying.  Fuck > you for even thinking that and being in full dipshit mode.  I used to > hang out with a guy who owned guys and I remember watching this thing > they showed kids with a character called Eddie Eagle, teaching kids > about gun safety.  The NRA had merit then, that was back in the early > 90s.  Then they reinvented themselves into a lobbying organization so > the gun industry could profit by selling more and more guns.  They are > scum.  If you don't get this I feel sorry for you. I suppose this becomes a matter of how one feels about torture.