Alec Baldwin, Known Racist and Gay-Hater, To Host MSNBC Show

What will the show be called?

I have a suggestion. Given the fact that it is only a matter of time before Alec Baldwin calls his critics "coons," "queens," or implies they're dykes, MSNBC should just cut out the middleman and call the hour-long program what it will eventually be called anyway:

A Heartfelt Apology to Our Gay and Minority Viewers
with Alec Baldwin

Paula Deen lost everything, but Alec Baldwin has paid no price at all for his serial deployment of forbidden slurs. Know this, and Know That They Protect Their Own.

Because people who are on TV are Dumb, and Dumb is Easy, and Easy is Holy, so by the commutative property of mathematics, People On TV are Holy.

Paula Deen Was on TV Too: A commenter notes this. Yes, I was trying to make a point about Baldwin being mobbed up with the NBC tv and corporate crew -- he hosted Saturday Night Live twenty or more times and so knew all the people in the building. I imagine he got heavily drunk with suits a time or two.

Plus, being a Handsome Person from Hollywood, he was infusing their lives with a little frisson of celebrity when he would gift them with his presence, and apparently they still haven't gotten over being star-struck.

People in the media are starf***ers. That's why they're there. They want to be Among the famous, or famous themselves, and anyone who wants to be famous himself considers fame a virtue and therefore Alec Baldwin has virtue.

Or at least he had it during the 80s and 90s. Close enough.

posted by Ace at 01:40 PM

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