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2007-02-26 Home Front: Culture Wars
Alec Baldwin storms out of talk radio interview
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Posted by DanNY 2007-02-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

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Baldwin was 30 minutes into a planned two-hour-plus sitdown with WABC Radio's Brian Whitman when Hannity called in.

The fireworks commenced almost immediately.

HANNITY: Alec, I wanted to give you an official WABC welcome considering you were supposed to come on my program last week and you didn't show up. What happened?

BALDWIN: No, I wasn't supposed to come on your program, Sean Hannity.

HANNITY: No, actually you were supposed to come on the program because a deal was made with your agent that if you were going to come on with Brian, first you'd come on with me.

BALDWIN: I wouldn't dream of coming on your program, Sean Hannity. I'm here with Brian. I'm here with a really talented broadcaster.

HANNITY: [Crosstalk] that you are, you don't tell the truth.

BALDWIN: Why would I want to come on the show with a no-talent, former construction worker hack like you?

HANNITY: Are you the guy that said of our vice president, while we're at war, while we're leading troops in harm's way - are you the reckless, third-rate Hollywood actor who said that Dick Cheney is a terrorist? Are you the guy . . .

BALDWIN: Yes I am.

HANNITY: ... who said to stone Henry Hyde to death? Are you the guy who said our president is a CIA mass murderer? I wanted you to come on the program and defend that, you gutless coward.

BALDWIN: At first I thought this was a joke. But you can hear all the acid venom spewing hatred. It is Sean Hannity. [END EXCERPT]

The exchange got even hotter when Mark Levin joined in.

LEVIN: We've only just begun - are you 40 or 50 pounds overweight now?

WHITMAN: Oh, C'mon now . . . .

HANNITY: Once and for all you need to be challenged. You want to call our vice president a terrorist - fine. You want to talk about stoning people to death, say it on my program. If you want to be irresponsible and call our president a mass murderer while he's at war leading troops in harm's way ...

BALDWIN: And what are you gonna do about it, Sean Hannity?

HANNITY: You don't have the courage to answer questions.

BALDWIN: And what are you gonna do? And what are you going to do about it, Sean Hannity. If I come on your program, what are you going to do?

LEVIN: He's going to show that you have a two digit IQ - that's what he's gonna do.

BALWIN: What are you going to do?

LEVIN: I just told you - you've got a two digit IQ.

BALDWIN: And who's that - who's your little cabin boy there with you.

LEVIN: I'm not a cabin boy, butt-boy.

BALDWIN: What are you doing there, cabin boy? ... I now dub you Sean Hannity's cabin boy.

LEVIN: And you know what you are? You're "Brokeback" Alec. [END EXCERPT]

The confrontation continued to spiral out of control, with Whitman intermittently trying to make peace and Baldwin repeatedly urging him to move on to other callers.

BALDWIN: Listen, Sean - you incredibly ignorant boob from Long Island ...

HANNITY: Oh, ouch, Alec.

BALDWIN: No, no, no, you've spoken, let me talk, Sean. Cause you've been spewing your ...

HANNITY: You're a third-rate Hollywood egomaniac.

BALDWIN: You're a no-talent, ignorant fool from Long Island. You should go back to building houses in Hempstead.

LEVIN: Why was your [former] wife [Kim Basinger] so pissed off at you, anyway?

WHITMAN: Now, c'mon guys.

BALDWIN: OK. We're done. [Gets up and leaves the studio]

WHITMAN: Come back. Come back. Alec? They're gone. Alec? Alec has walked out of the studio. Alec, please come back.
Posted by Angenter Crolugum3645 2007-02-26 00:33||   2007-02-26 00:33|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Angenter Crolugum3645 2007-02-26 00:42||   2007-02-26 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 This *really* needs a 'no drinking' alert!

Oh wow - I wish I'd heard that...
Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-02-26 02:06||   2007-02-26 02:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Didn't Alec promise to Leave USA if Bush wins second term?
Posted by gromgoru 2007-02-26 03:00||   2007-02-26 03:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Why would I want to come on the show with a no-talent, former construction worker hack like you?

Iteresting insight on how the Left really feels about the laboring masses.
Posted by gromgoru 2007-02-26 03:02||   2007-02-26 03:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, in my circles, it's considered an achievement if a man, formerly of humble origins, rises above his birth status due to natural merit. To Alec Baldwin, the fact that Hannity was a manual laborer is contemptible and unforgivable. This is more a rich prick thing than it is a right-left thing, but when lefties do it it's hypocrisy.
Posted by gromky 2007-02-26 05:11||   2007-02-26 05:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually, Baldwin is useful because his tantrums cause people to take politicized-actors less seriously. He's not a bad actor. I saw him in an excellent TV remake of "Judgment at Nuremberg."
Posted by Sneaze 2007-02-26 05:14||   2007-02-26 05:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry Sneaze, since I saw Mr Baldwin in 'Team America', whatever he does from now on is mere sidewalk entertainment. He truly attained his zenith in that film.
Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-02-26 05:36||   2007-02-26 05:36|| Front Page Top

#9 He's going to show that you have a two digit IQ - that's what he's gonna do.


As they say in the trade , OWNED .
Posted by MacNails 2007-02-26 06:33||   2007-02-26 06:33|| Front Page Top

#10 I liked him in Hunt for Red October, but that was before his zenith in Team America.
Posted by Bobby 2007-02-26 06:41||   2007-02-26 06:41|| Front Page Top

#11 A name actor is only as saleable as the love he generates in his potential audience before they pay to see his latest opus. Talent and charisma are piece of that, but doing all the stupid red carpet interviews and Jay Leno thingies are a big part, too. Mr. Baldwin had better hope Americans really are as forgetful of history as is claimed... and that Jay Leno, et al don't find this amusing and topical enough to riff on, the way they did Mr. Gore's conferences being cancelled annually due to wintry weather.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-26 06:55||   2007-02-26 06:55|| Front Page Top

#12 I love seeing the left wingers get in tizzies. You really see their thinking and how they view people.
I still will not see anything with Alex in it.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-02-26 07:18||   2007-02-26 07:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Diet-Coke: Why does Alec hate it?
Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-26 09:06||   2007-02-26 09:06|| Front Page Top

#14 This happened once before between Alec Baldwin and Sean Hannity. I can't believe Baldwin went back to the construction worker crack a second time.
Posted by eLarson 2007-02-26 10:36|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-02-26 10:36|| Front Page Top

#15 I was about to say, eLarson, Hannity has used Baldwin's quote about a two-bit, no talent construction worker before. Is this a repeat?
Posted by BA 2007-02-26 10:37||   2007-02-26 10:37|| Front Page Top

#16 Just goes to show you how elitist the Hollywood left really is--they think they are superior to construction workers, the military, and just about everyone else that works for a living. The most significant thing Balwin ever did way marry Kim Basinger. It was downhill after that.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-02-26 12:09||   2007-02-26 12:09|| Front Page Top

#17 this exchange was on several months ago..it must have been a re-broadcast..
Posted by RD 2007-02-26 13:18||   2007-02-26 13:18|| Front Page Top

#18 This sounds like Deja Vu all over again.
Posted by doc 2007-02-26 18:04||   2007-02-26 18:04|| Front Page Top

#19 I wonder how many liberal construction workers are aware of Baldwin's comments.
Maybe we can use this to an advantage.
This hollywood led agenda is getting a bit much
Posted by Jan 2007-02-26 19:48||   2007-02-26 19:48|| Front Page Top

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