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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: The Alec Baldwin Left Hook
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:53:31 -0400
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On 4/25/2024 12:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2024 at 2:49:02 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>   On 4/23/2024 1:04 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>   BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> 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   "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or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.