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Subject: Re: The Alec Baldwin Left Hook
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:25:39 -0400
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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" <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   "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or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.
> 
> 
> 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.