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This story is both pathetic (for Alec Baldwin's daughter), and funny as H + E + double hockey-sticks!

The story was broken here by TMZ. Basically, TMZ has broadcasted this guy (Alec Baldwin) becoming unhinged at his 11 year-old daughter (it's in mp3 format).

Anyway, thought I'd get all of your input about what a great guy he is - eh?

Makes me glad I've pegged Hollywood types long ago.

Thoughts?

-BT

Because of his recent tirade, he has temporarily lost his visitation. Fame & money does not corrolate to happiness does it?

Wasn't Alec Baldwin the one that promised to move out of the country a few years ago..... He's got a history of running his mouth. You can leave at any time Alec.

Stewy, yes he is......I'm still waiting.

Sounds like his daughter would be better of without him, and I used to think my step dad was rough!

she probably is a little brat and needs some whoopin'! I say stay out of the guys life. Let him scold his child if he wants. Another example of our media's priorities being completely messed up!

By the way. Does he even ride a bike?

Hey! Give the jerk a BREAK here.

He learned everything he knows about being a dad at the Ryan O'Neal School Of Parenting!!!!

Actually...I'll never understand this syndrome that "the ex-wife or ex-husband was the biggest jerk I ever met"!

What the heck does this say about some people's(oohhh...not limited to "Hollywood Celebs", BTW) ability to perceive the "true persona" of those they meet and "fall in love" with.(compounded afterward by poppin' out a few little brats of their own, of course)

I love to tell these folks....look INWARD, you fool. THERE'S your friggin' problem!

(ahh..."The Sanctity of Marriage")

You have to take a test to get a driver's license,
but any a-----es can have a kid.

alec baldbutt is a loser in every aspect of his so called life. He has no credibility as a political talking head which he attempts from time to time and he has no socially redeeming values whatsoever.

Suicide would be a working option for him in so far as it would relieve him of his grandiose infamy.

Ask me how I really feel.

Obviously, we don't know the WHOLE story - just the sensationalistic part the media enjoys so much.

True - but nobody should be saying those types of things to their kid. I'm not condoning a lack of discipline or limits, but personal insults from a parent to a kid are never appropriate, IMO.

You got THAT right, LJ!!!

To borrow a little shtick from that dude Bill Maher....

...To help keep the population down of children growing up in "broken homes"...

NEW RULE No.1

Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, regardless of race, color, creed, WHATEVER, will now have a NORPLANT birth-control device inserted into their right thigh at age 12, that will then be removed at age 30.(just about the time most people start to "figure it out" about life in general)

THIS will give them a few years(about 10) to get MARRIED to the RIGHT PERSON, and have just enough time to only pop out about two of three little rugrats(this will also help keep the population of this planet down, of course).

If by that time you STILL haven't figured out how to choose that right person to spend the rest of your life, you're deemed "A Hopeless Case" and IMMEDIATELY will be taken out of the gene pool and given a motorcycle to ride...WITHOUT a HELMET!!!

(now...have I p*ssed off just about EVERYBODY here?.....GOOD!)

We really don't know too much about the situation. The daughter could very well be an aspiring Paris Hilton at 11!

I think "again" is the key word here. I would be pissed too if I made an effort every day to call a certain time and she doesn't have it on time and again. I think the name calling might be a bit much but inconsiderate and the like are probably accurate and the little girl should be told that she is being so. The pig comment is a bit over the top.

True, and I agree the media plays the stories to fit their needs to sell product. I saw the footage of Rodney King getting out of the car throwing punches at the police. Only one source showed that segment. I also saw the footage of one ATF agent killing another ATF agent at the Waco mess. Only PBS had the 'stuff' to show that, and later pulled it.

On the other hand, I'll stand by my opinion of no personal attacks against children. The audio makes it clear this happened. If they're brats, someone made them a brat. That doesn't open the door to making it right to get into name calling.

Call me crazy, but I also believe that no parent should bash the other parent in front of the kids, regardless of the circumstances.

I'm the father of two daughters. Seems that on a fairly regular basis they do something that warrants a strong response from dear old dad, and I'm not afraid to lay down the law. I guess I'm fortunate that there is still an element of fear involved. However, I would NEVER belittle or berate them in this manner.

The thing that I find interesting is Mr. Baldwin ejoys exploiting his celebrity to spew forth his political agenda, usually in an extremely condescending fashion. Perhaps he should re-evaluaute his own character before advising others on how to conduct their lives.

Well, I guess we're just a little TOO LATE for the NORPLANT injection for THAT dern Hollywood Liberal, huh Doug???!!!

Thats what I was trying to say blackdog, the name calling was too much but I can see where she might have needed to be told she was being inconsiderate. He simply went about it the wrong way. Tough and stern but not belittling or degrading to me would be the right way if it was a repeated thing. Especially if it was me and I was making time out of my schedule during a busy day to be sure to call at a certain time! Then the phone is off repeatedly!! I would be pissed too but wouldn't call names.

He is an atypical sleazy hollyweird loser with an anti-American agenda. His is not so much liberal as he is just plain idiotic.

he is indeed the result of a downrange DNA breakdown somewhere in his lineage.

Like I said suicide would be good for him as an out.

Now HERE'S a guy I'll bet never yells at HIS kid?

That reminds me! Do you have any Kevin, or were you smart like me to figure out that they deserve you being the best as much as you can be, day in a day out, and thus that will take a awful lot of patience which I knew I didn't possess near enough of to be a good dad?!

Just wonderin'!

Believe me, I know kids can be little hellions, - and I have no doubt Alec Baldwin's little girl is a handful. But, so as to demonstrate absurdity by being absurd, the rhetorical questions I would pose is this, "should a parent act childish as a method of inducing maturity in their child?" Would that tactic "straighten out" the daughter in question?

The answer to that questions reveals Alec Baldwin to be a stupid idiot.

-BT

I think besides that fact that Mr.Hollywood here "lost it", and took it out on his kid, AFTER I'll just bet the GORGEOUS(but evidently clueless when it comes to picking spouses) Ms. Bassinger had prompted their little "tennis ball" of a child into NOT answering Mr.Baldwin's(scheduled around his "busy schedule", I'll also bet) phone calls.

And, I'll bet the other half of the "adults" here sent this recording out to her publicist in an effort to discredit(maybe rightfully) the other half.

Once again...some people just don't deserve to have kids, but they're too "in love" at the time to see it! I feel sorry for all the little "tennis balls" out there, myself. Be they in Hollywood OR Grand Island Nebraska!

hrumph...people!

(DOGS is better people, ya know....I likes them?!)

He's from Long Island. This morning on the radio they had people calling in with Alec stories. ALL of them were about what a tool he is. He honestly thinks his stuff don't stink, and walks around like people should bow down to him, at least that's what everyone was saying...

About the only good thing is that his family has some sort of charity fund of some sort for (I think) breast cancer research, cause theur mom had it. Otherwise I could do without him too...

Sad when a "parent" sounds like a pouty, self-centered child.

I couldn't get the link to open, since I am at work and some things are blocked. But no one is a perfect parent. There are things I know I could have done different with my son. But as an actor I like Baldwin's movies. He was a great Patrick Ryan in "Hunt for Red October"

So true!! Granted, like others have said, we don't know the whole story... Some kids do everything in their power to drive their parents nuts, and they generally have more energy than their parents... But he said some truly hurtful things, not just annoying...

PES,

It might have been enlightening for you to open that link.

But, suffice to say it is probably not a good idea to call your daughter a "thoughtless little pig," or say "you've made me feel like s**t" and threatened to "straighten your a$$ out."

Nevertheless, your point is well taken, and I understand.

-BT

3 things I know...#1 80% of news nowadays is just gossip...#2Most "Experts on raising kids never had any...#3People say stupid crap everyday,why does anyone care what Alec Baldwin says

So, he called her "a rude, thoughtless little pig,", which she probably is. How terrible of him to try to teach his child to behave, might ruin her rotten little personality.

I see only one solution to all this, and that is...

I need to go spank Kim Basinger

(DOGS is better people, ya know....I likes them?!)
Thanx Dwight!

or maybe Kim Bassinger could spank me I have been a bad boy! Or maybe we could spank each other or maybe I could watch her and spank.... Oh never mind! LOL

HEY! In YOUR picture here YOU look like a freakin' RAT to me, Ian!

What?! Is THAT supposed to be Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's version of a CHIHUAHUA, or somethin' NOW???!!!

(I KNOW they look a little alike and all, but GEEEEZ!)

Seen it a lot. Parents get divorced and start using the kids as weapons against each other. Not limited to "Hollywood types" at all.
Ol' Alec is an arse to be sure, talking to his 11 year old daughter like that, but I'll bet she (and her mom) know just how to push his buttons and what reaction to expect.
So, now the world knows he's an arse. Well, we always knew so now we just know more.
There have always been abusive, self-centered parents. It just used to be kept in the closet.
I don't know if celebrities are are more likely to be that way, but I expect it might come with the territory.

Joan Crawford.
Ryan O'Neil.
Bing Crosby.
Murray Wilson.
Hank Williams.
How many others have been abusers?

Nipsey Russell

Thank Goodness,
That Alec is such a horse's arse.
Maybe it'll divert our attention away from the horror that
just went on at VT.

Oh yeah, who was the father of that stripper's baby?

I think his name is Charlie