On Wednesday, apparently triggered by the Department of Justice requesting that the prospective sentence against President Trump’s former associate Roger Stone be reduced, actor Alec Baldwin, who has a vitriolic hatred for the president, launched a Twitter rant in which he compared Trump to Hitler, slammed GOP senators for their “sniveling fealty and lack of courage,” and theorized that the economy was heading downward and thus would stimulate “fascistic thinking.”
Stone was found guilty of seven charges including lying to Congress and witness tampering in the Russia investigation.
Baldwin commenced his tirade by stating, “This week, It’s official. The United States government is as lawless as the malignant dictatorships we’ve hated in our foreign policy since WWII.”
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It’s official. The United States government is as lawless as the malignant dictatorships we’ve hated in our foreign policy since WWII
&mdash; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1227680988769202176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Then he put on his thinking cap and segued to his economic prognostications: “Remember that fascistic thinking takes hold when a standard of living is threatened consistently. People think that things are changing, and downward for most Americans. And that this will become the new normal. They are wholly directed by $.”
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Remember that fascistic thinking takes hold when a standard of living is threatened consistently. People think that things are changing, and downward for most Americans. And that this will become the new normal. They are wholly directed by $.
&mdash; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1227809261297819648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Baldwin concluded with a flourish as he warned of apocalyptic events to come: “You wonder how Hitler took control of a once great country. For those of you too young to recall the War or its aftermath, simply watch how this GOP-controlled Senate behaves. Their sniveling fealty and lack of courage. And you begin to get it.”
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You wonder how Hitler took control of a once great country. For those of you too young to recall the War or its aftermath, simply watch how this GOP-controlled Senate behaves. Their sniveling fealty and lack of courage. And you begin to get it.
&mdash; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1227946723269652481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8002527/Alec-Baldwin-compares-Donald-Trump-Hitler-scathing-Twitter-rant.html">The Daily Mail</a> reported, “Last month Baldwin blasted Trump supports for what he described as the ‘colossal destruction of everything that matters’ in the USA in a lengthy Twitter rant.”
Baldwin wrote, “The desecration of those ideals and the near moral collapse of this country falls squarely in the lap of Trump’s supporters&#8230; as opposed to Trump himself, who is merely what psychology labels the ‘objective negative function’ … Like fire, floods and earthquakes, it destroys, and only destroys, by its very nature. Without prejudice. It is Trump voters, particularly those who would re-elect him who bear the blame. For the undeniable and colossal destruction of everything that matters to us as Americans that cannot be merely monetized.”
In October 2018, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alec-baldwin-tells-audience-we-need-overthrow-emily-zanotti">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Baldwin told a group of rich Democratic donors at a fundraiser in New Hampshire that &#8220;we need to overthrow the government&#8221; because of President Donald Trump. As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/alec-baldwin-calls-for-overthrow-of-trump-at-dem-fundraiser-in-new-hampshire">Fox News reported</a>, Baldwin stated, “In an orderly and formal way, and lawful way, we need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump. [This election] and the one that follows in 2020 will be the most consequential elections since the election of FDR. It is time to overthrow the government of Donald Trump — not in a violent way or unlawful way — but it must be overthrown nonetheless.”
Baldwin also theorized about potential challengers to Trump, surmising, “I’m hoping that someone that isn’t necessarily on the horizon right now would materialize. I don’t think anybody that’s a front-runner now of the top six, seven, eight names that I’ve seen, I don’t think any of them is going to have an easy time of it.&#8221;

Saturday Night Live &#8211; Season 45

Alec Baldwin Rants At Trump: U.S. Government Like ‘The Malignant Dictatorships We’ve Hated’

Alec Baldwin

Just when you thought it couldn&#8217;t happen again, &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; has embarrassed itself once more.
The once-funny late-night comedy show on Saturday ran a skit with cast member Pete Davidson playing a terrorist. He thanks President Trump (played by Alec Baldwin) for “bringing jobs back to ISIS.&#8221;
“So great to see a young Trump supporter,” Baldwin said in the sketch. “And where are you from son, New Mexico?”
“ISIS,” Davidson said, “I was a prisoner in Syria until last week when you freed me,” he said.
Davidson was referring to Trump&#8217;s decision to pull U.S. troops from northern Syria (some reports say the U.S. withdrawal led to the release of ISIS terrorists, who then led U.S. forces to the location of the ISIS leader.)
“I just want to say thank you for bringing jobs back to ISIS. And I promise that I will make ISIS great again!” Davidson said.
“Terrific! What a great guy. ISIS is back in a big, big way,” Baldwin said. “And we love that.”
Oops.
As it turned out, just hours before the show aired live, Trump took to Twitter to post a cryptic message.
&#8220;Something very big has just happened!&#8221; he wrote in a post at 9:23 p.m., about two hours before SNL aired.
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Something very big has just happened!
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On Sunday morning, in a White House address, Trump said U.S., forces had killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Islamic State leader detonated an explosive vest he was wearing just as U.S. Special Operations Forces stormed his compound.
Trump said al-Baghdadi &#8220;died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way.&#8221;
&#8220;He died like a dog, he died like a coward,” Trump said.
In his address, Trump said he sent the tweet out after the raid had been successfully completed. That means that by the time SNL aired its sketch, U.S. forces had already taken out the ISIS leader.
And even though cable news broke the news around midnight that the U.S. had killed al-Baghdadi, NBC did not break into SNL to report the story.
In an even more embarrassing twist, when SNL did its &#8220;Weekend Update,&#8221; the anchors on the fake-news skit mocked Trump&#8217;s &#8220;big news coming&#8221; tweet.
Trump on Sunday said he did not notify some members of Congress — including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and senior Democrats on the committees currently working to impeach him &#8212; about a raid on the top ISIS terrorist because he was worried about leaks.
“We notified some [and] others are being notified now as I speak,” Trump sad.
&#8220;We were going to notify them last night, but we decided not to do that because Washington leaks like I’ve never seen before,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;There’s no country in the world that leaks like we do, and Washington is a leaking machine.&#8221;
Those on the outside included Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA). Trump said that was the safest course of action.
“Washington is a leaking machine,” Trump said. “The only people that knew were the few people that I dealt with &#8230; A leak could have caused the death of all of them.”
&#8220;I told my people we will not notify them until our great people are out — not just in but out,&#8221; Trump added.
The president said he did speak with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Burr (R-NC) about the operation, but only after it had concluded.
&#8220;I wanted to make sure this was kept secret. I don&#8217;t want to have men lost and women. I don’t want to have people lost,&#8221; he said.

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OOPS: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Skit Has Terrorist Thanking Trump for ‘Bringing Jobs Back to ISIS’ — Just After U.S. Forces Had Killed ISIS Leader

Donald Trump

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After Alec Baldwin announced that he was done playing President Trump on Saturday Night Live and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee celebrated the fact, Baldwin decided to respond by taking a cheap shot at Huckabee&#8217;s daughter, White House press spokesman Sarah Sanders, by labeling her a &#8220;mouthpiece for fascism.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.mrctv.org/blog/alec-baldwin-attacks-sarah-huckabee-sanders-mouthpiece-fascism-amid-feud-gov-huckabee">MRCTV noted,</a> the series of exchanges started with Baldwin telling <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/06/06/alec-baldwin-talks-retiring-trump-snl-new-delorean-documentary/1338771001/">USA Today</a>:
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Darrell Hammond did it and is a far better impressionist than I&#8217;ll ever be. When Anthony Alamanuik (started impersonating Trump on Comedy Central&#8217;s &#8220;The President Show&#8221;), all these people were attacking me, saying, &#8220;Oh, your impression sucks and you suck. Please go away.&#8221; It also was something I thought to myself: &#8220;I really don&#8217;t have a lot invested in my Trump impersonation, so please find someone and convince Lorne (Michaels) to replace me.&#8221; I&#8217;m completely down with that. Winning the Emmy for that show aside, it was not some career goal of mine.So if (Atamanuik) wants the job, it&#8217;s his. He can have it. I&#8217;ve done that. I mean, I had a lot of fun with (the cast), and when Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider wrote (Trump sketches in 2016 and 2017), that was new, it was fresh and the ratings were good. But I feel like I&#8217;m done with that now. I&#8217;m so done with that.
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Huckabee tweeted, &#8220;Alec Baldwin announced that he&#8217;s &#8216;so done&#8217; playing <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realDonaldTrump</a> on &#8216;Saturday Night Live.&#8217; Good news for viewers who are &#8216;so done&#8217; with &#8216;SNL&#8217; &amp; unfunny vicious Trump bashing instead of comedy. For refreshing variety, try my show instead tonight!&#8221;
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Alec Baldwin announced that he&#8217;s &#8220;so done&#8221; playing <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> on &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221;. Good news for viewers who are &#8220;so done&#8221; with &#8220;SNL&#8221; &amp; unfunny vicious Trump bashing instead of comedy. For refreshing variety, try my show instead tonight! <a href="https://t.co/MTf4xbnNsG">https://t.co/MTf4xbnNsG</a>
&#8212; Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1137355743483584513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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That prompted Baldwin to take a shot at Huckabee&#8217;s daughter, writing, &#8220;Who knows what the future holds? I tell what it should hold. That you, who have sucked a govt paycheck out of the economy while you were a dreadful Lt gov and then gov and that daughter of yours, a mouthpiece for fascism, that you go away. Just&#8230;go away.&#8221;
He added, &#8220;And your show is dreadful. You have no charm, insight or intellect.&#8221;
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Who knows what the future holds? 
I tell what it should hold. That you, who have sucked a govt paycheck out of the economy while you were a dreadful Lt gov and then gov and that daughter of yours, a mouthpiece for fascism, that you go away. 
Just&#8230;go away. <a href="https://t.co/ipnR7jeRkW">https://t.co/ipnR7jeRkW</a>
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1138033841245970433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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And your show is dreadful. You have no charm, insight or intellect. <a href="https://t.co/ipnR7jeRkW">https://t.co/ipnR7jeRkW</a>
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1138034075745341440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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If Baldwin has problems with fascism, he might want to check his endorsement of the Hollywood boycott of Georgia after the state passed a fetal heartbeat bill, an action that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45437/stephen-baldwin-blasts-brother-alec-boycotting-paul-bois">irritated his brother Stephen</a> enough for him to tweet publicly criticizing his brother. As far as his big announcement that he was through playing Trump, he&#8217;s been threatening to stop for two years. In March 2017, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/14204/alec-baldwin-explains-why-hes-giving-trump-james-barrett">stated</a>, &#8220;Trump just overwhelmingly lacks any sportsmanship, he remains, bitter, and angry, and you just want to look at him and go, &#8216;You won!&#8217; His policies aside, which you can hate, I thought he would have just relaxed.&#8221; He continued, &#8220;The maliciousness of this White House has people worried&#8230; that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m not going to do it much longer, the impersonation, I don&#8217;t know how much more people can take it.&#8221;

Alec Baldwin Attacks Sarah Sanders: She’s A ‘Mouthpiece For Fascism’

Mike Huckabee

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

On Monday, Hollywood actor and ardent Trump-hater Alec Baldwin sparked speculation that he might be making a 2020 presidential bid after he fired off a couple of tweets expressing such interest.
Baldwin, who was recently arrested for physical assault in New York, said that beating President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election would be &#8220;so easy.&#8221;
&#8220;If I ran for President, would you vote for me?&#8221; asked the actor. &#8220;I won&#8217;t ask you for any [money]. And I promise I will win. Beating Trump would be so easy. So easy. So easy.&#8221;
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If I ran for President, would you vote for me?
I won&#8217;t ask you for any $.
And I promise I will win.
Beating Trump would be so easy.
So easy.
So easy.
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1115255818281205761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In a follow-up tweet, Baldwin noted that posing such questions on social media saves him &#8220;millions&#8221; of dollars &#8220;in polling.&#8221;
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These tweets save me millions in polling.
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1115262442332930050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The actor of &#8220;The Departed&#8221; fame frequently plays an angry, dumbed-down version of Trump on sketch-comedy show &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; and has been vocal in his hatred for the billionaire. In December, for example, Baldwin labeled Trump a &#8220;curse&#8221; that must be exorcised from the United States.
&#8220;Trump is a curse, brought down on us as punishment [for] our sins. The slaughter of Native Americans, slavery, Japanese internment, Vietnam. Every hateful, misogynistic, racist notion, intertwined w our better nature, Trump embodies those,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;He is us. Now we can face it + exorcise it.&#8221;
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Trump is a curse, brought down on us as punishment 4 our sins. The slaughter of Native Americans, slavery, Japanese internment, Vietnam. Every hateful, misogynistic, racist notion, intertwined w our better nature, Trump embodies those. He is us. Now we can face it + exorcise it.
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1074391907869057024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/alec-baldwin-tweets-beating-trump-would-be-so-easy-if-he-ran-for-president">noted</a> by Fox News, Trump and Baldwin exchanged words back in February.
&#8220;Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!&#8221; the president tweeted on February 17.
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Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097116612279316480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Baldwin responded, &#8220;I wonder if a sitting President exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?&#8221;
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I wonder if a sitting President exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1097319232151449600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Suffice it to say, the two are not fond of one another.
But if Baldwin really were to throw his hat into the ring with other Democratic challengers, his hot-headed behavior might be an issue with the American voters &#8212; or at the least fodder for President Trump, who has a knack for effectively mocking and permanently branding his opponents in a single soundbite.
Baldwin was arrested in November for punching a man over a parking spot in New York. He was charged with assault.
&#8220;It looks like it was a dispute over the parking spot, and the person in custody punched him,&#8221; said New York Police Department Det. Sophia Mason, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alec-baldwin-police-custody-punching-man-parking-spot-1157630">according</a> to The Hollywood Reporter.
Baldwin later addressed the incident on Twitter, writing, &#8220;Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today&#8217;s story. However, the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. I wanted to go on the record stating as much. I realize that it has become a sport to tag people w as many negative charges and defaming allegations as possible for the purposes of clickbait entertainment.&#8221;
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1- Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today&#8217;s story. 
However, the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. 
I wanted to go on the record stating as much. 
I realize that it has become a sport to tag people w as many negative
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1058493203639427073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Is Alec Baldwin Running For President In 2020? Here Are The Tweets Causing Speculation.

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A bit of a family feud has erupted on Twitter between openly conservative Christian actor Stephen Baldwin and his leftist brother Alec Baldwin over the latter brother&#8217;s signing a petition in protest of Georgia&#8217;s new pro-life law.
Last week, many Hollywood luminaries <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45265/moral-paragons-50-actors-sign-letter-alyssa-milano-hank-berrien">announced a boycott against the state of Georgia</a> &#8212; a state sometimes referred to as the &#8220;<a href="http://time.com/longform/hollywood-in-georgia/">Hollywood of the South</a>&#8221; &#8212; due to legislators passing a fetal &#8220;heartbeat bill&#8221; that would protect unborn babies from abortion beginning at the moment doctors detect a heartbeat. One petition pushed by actress Alyssa Milano featured Alec Baldwin&#8217;s signature among other notable names such as Colin Hanks, Sean Penn, and Sarah Silverman.
Though Stephen Baldwin and his brother Alec have disagreed on politics for some time, the two have largely remained amicable on social media. For Stephen, however, his brother boycotting a state simply for wanting to protect unborn babies was the final straw, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/stephen-baldwin-goes-on-twitter-rant-after-brother-alec-signs-alyssa-milano-driven-abortion-petition">Fox News</a>.
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Avoided tweets like this
long as I could now
to overwhelming
Love will ultimately wins
Jesus
but for so long I&#8217;ve sat back &amp; trusted God as my own family members have
perpetrated the spirit of hate &#8230;
through abortion
Mockery &amp; blindness
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&#8220;The Usual Suspects&#8221; actor added several hashtags about Hollywood and going to hell alongside a flame emoji.
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avoided tweets like this 
long as I could now 
to overwhelming 
Love will ultimately wins 
Jesus 
but for so long I&#8217;ve sat back &amp; trusted God as my own family members have perpetrated the spirit of hate &#8230; 
through abortion 
Mockery &amp; blindness <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#sad</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Alec?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Alec</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hates?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hates</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pray?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#pray</a>
&#8212; Stephen Baldwin (@StephenBaldwin7) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenBaldwin7/status/1112739761561710593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hollywood?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hollywood</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#sad</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/goingtohell?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#goingtohell</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pray?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#pray</a>
&#8212; Stephen Baldwin (@StephenBaldwin7) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenBaldwin7/status/1112716619132751872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Alec Baldwin has yet to respond to his brother&#8217;s public criticism. Indeed, Hollywood&#8217;s protest against Georgia has often been marked by vile hatred and typical pro-abortion distortions, with Hollywood stars routinely characterizing the heartbeat bill as a patriarchal power grab. The <a href="https://www.nbc-2.com/story/40219593/hollywood-comes-out-in-opposition-to-georgias-heartbeat-bill">letter</a> which Alec Baldwin signed read:
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This dangerous and deeply-flawed bill mimics many others which have already been deemed unconstitutional. As men who identify as small-government conservatives, we remind you that government is never bigger than when it is inside a woman&#8217;s body or in her doctor&#8217;s office. This bill would remove the possibility of women receiving reproductive healthcare before most even know they are pregnant and force many women to undergo unregulated, hidden procedures at great risk to their health.
We can&#8217;t imagine being elected officials who had to say to their constituents, &#8220;I enacted a law that was so evil, it chased billions of dollars out of our state&#8217;s economy.&#8221; It&#8217;s not the most effective campaign slogan, but rest assured we&#8217;ll make it yours should it come to pass.
This is the precipice on which you stand.
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In an op-ed for <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/03/alyssa-milano-heartbeat-bill-georgia-commentary-hollywood-1202582521/">Deadline</a>, the petition&#8217;s leader, Alyssa Milano, viciously called the heartbeat bill a &#8220;forced pregnancy bill.&#8221;
&#8220;It should instead be called a &#8216;forced pregnancy bill&#8217; &#8212; because it would outlaw abortion before a woman even knows that she is pregnant,&#8221; Milano said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the most anti-woman bill of its kind in the country, and it sends the exact wrong message about the kind of state Georgia&#8217;s leaders wish to create. In short, HB 481 would make Georgia the most regressive state in the country.&#8221;
Actress Ashley Bratcher, who plays Abby Johnson in the movie &#8220;Unplanned,&#8221; fired back at Milano as a &#8220;proud Georgian&#8221; who respects her state&#8217;s decision to stand up for unborn children.
&#8220;One problem, you&#8217;re forgetting about the rights of women within the womb. If feminism is all about equal rights, then where are her rights?&#8221; Bratcher openly asked Milano.

Stephen Baldwin Blasts Brother Alec For Boycotting Georgia Over Abortion Law

Abortion

Georgia

On Monday, Donald Trump Jr., who may be turning his Twitter account into a cottage industry for taking on leftists, fixed his eye on a new target, actor Alec Baldwin, who stated on Twitter that he was concerned that President Trump&#8217;s reaction to an SNL skit satirizing him would constitute a threat to his safety and that of his family.
Trump Jr. tweeted, &#8220;The guy that punches people in the face over a parking spot, has aggressively harassed paparazzi, and humiliated his daughter berating her over the phone eye etc is worried about a tweet that doesn&#8217;t even mention him? Okay. Spare everyone your bulls*** Alec!&#8221;
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The guy that punches people in the face over a parking spot, has aggressively harassed paparazzi, and humiliated his daughter berating her over the phone eye etc is worried about a tweet that doesn&#8217;t even mention him? Okay
Spare everyone your bullshit Alec! <a href="https://t.co/l0E8GN9UKk">https://t.co/l0E8GN9UKk</a>
&#8212; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1097669159750533121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump Jr. added, &#8220;Oh, Don&#8217;t forget the homophobic slurs&#8230; this clown is such a mess it&#8217;s hard to keep track.&#8221;
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Oh, Don&#8217;t forget the homophobic slurs&#8230; this clown is such a mess it&#8217;s hard to keep track. <a href="https://t.co/zZraVRsnb2">https://t.co/zZraVRsnb2</a>
&#8212; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1097669988964429824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump Jr. was reacting to Baldwin, who tweeted at the Twitter site representing his foundation, &#8220;&#8220;I wonder if a sitting President exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?&#8221;
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I wonder if a sitting President exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1097319232151449600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Baldwin&#8217;s tweet was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43592/alec-baldwin-says-trumps-snl-collusion-tweet-may-james-barrett">triggered</a> by President Trump tweeting, &#8220;Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!&#8221;
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Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097116612279316480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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President Trump immediately followed that tweet with another, tweeting in all caps, &#8220;THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!&#8221;
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THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097117499336855553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Alec Baldwin-Donald Trump Sr. feud goes back years; in December 2016, Baldwin impersonated Trump on SNL, triggering Trump to tweet, &#8220;Just tried watching Saturday Night Live &#8211; unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can&#8217;t get any worse. Sad.&#8221;
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Just tried watching Saturday Night Live &#8211; unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can&#8217;t get any worse. Sad
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/805278955150471168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Baldwin replied, &#8220;Release your tax returns and I&#8217;ll stop. Ha.&#8221;
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&#8230;<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>
Release your tax returns and I&#8217;ll stop. 
Ha
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/805284113741729792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2016</a></blockquote>
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By March 2017, Baldwin was saying he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/14204/alec-baldwin-explains-why-hes-giving-trump-james-barrett">thinking of giving up</a> his impersonation of Trump, asserting, &#8220;Trump just overwhelmingly lacks any sportsmanship, he remains, bitter, and angry, and you just want to look at him and go, &#8216;You won&#8217; His policies aside, which you can hate, I thought he would have just relaxed.&#8221;
Also in November 2017, Baldwin was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/23103/baldwin-launches-anti-trump-parody-book-picture-ben-shapiro">releasing his new book</a>, &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story Of My Fantastic First Year As President Donald J. Trump (A So-Called Parody).&#8221; The book had excerpts like this one:
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My third birthday party, fantastic time, leaning over the Carvel cake to blow out the candles, my hair catches on fire. Mom yells, &#8220;Fred, no,&#8221; just as Dad pushes my face into the cake to put it out and starts laughing like a maniac, one of the only times I remember him laughing. The other thing I know is that you always remember the downs much, much more clearly and much, much longer than the ups, like each one is one of those video jiffies from Twitter playing over and over and over in your mind, and you can&#8217;t delete them.
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That same month, Baldwin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/23619/alec-baldwin-trump-we-cant-be-mean-enough-guy-james-barrett">explained</a> that the reason he kept impersonating Trump was as a favor to Trump-haters, stating that the early plan was just to play the role on &#8220;about three shows and be out,&#8221; but audience response made him feel obligated to continue. He said, &#8220;I&#8217;m the first person who wakes up everyday and goes, we&#8217;re done, we&#8217;re done &#8212; I&#8217;m sick of this,&#8221; but added that he so received much praise for the role, as people gushed statements such as &#8220;you&#8217;re getting us through this,&#8221; that he felt obligated to continue.
By December 2017, Baldwin had left any complaints about playing Trump behind, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24909/alec-baldwin-wants-make-his-trump-impersonation-emily-zanotti">making plans</a> to turn his impersonation of Trump into a one-man show with the help of SNL producer Loren Michaels. Baldwin told Howard Stern, &#8220;&#8221;We may take the book and make it into a one-man show on Broadway. What Lorne did do is give me permission to write this book which was up to him to do. &#8230; My rendering of him is his intellectual property. His people made it, his people wrote it; I just showed up.&#8221;
In October 2018, Baldwin had gone full anti-Trump zealot, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37129/alec-baldwin-tells-audience-we-need-overthrow-emily-zanotti">telling</a> a Democrat fundraiser in New Hampshire, &#8220;In an orderly and formal way, and lawful way, we need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump.&#8221;

Alec Baldwin Says President Trump Is Endangering Him. Donald Trump Jr. Tweets Blistering Response.

Donald Trump Jr.

Actor Alec Baldwin &#8212; who frequently appears on Saturday Night Live to perform his mocking impersonation of Donald Trump and loathes the president so much that he actually wrote a book about it &#8212; asked Sunday if Trump slamming SNL for once again lambasting him constitutes a &#8220;threat&#8221; against Baldwin and his family.
&#8220;Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC!&#8221; Trump tweeted early Sunday morning. &#8220;Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!&#8221;
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Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097116612279316480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Though Trump is clearly just hammering his standard &#8220;Fake News Media&#8221; theme, Baldwin framed it as a potential personal threat &#8212; apparently based on the premise that Trump&#8217;s &#8220;followers&#8221; are supposedly prone to violence.
&#8220;I wonder if a sitting President exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?&#8221; Baldwin tweeted through his Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation account.
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I wonder if a sitting President exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1097319232151449600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Baldwin&#8217;s suggestion that Trump&#8217;s supporters are violent comes just a few months after Baldwin was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38705/ahole-stole-my-spot-alec-baldwin-charged-assault-joseph-curl">charged with assault</a> over an ugly parking place incident in which he reportedly admitted to police that he &#8220;did push&#8221; a man for supposedly taking his parking spot. &#8220;He&#8217;s an a**hole. He stole my spot. I did push him,&#8221; Baldwin allegedly said, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6429441/Alec-Baldwin-set-court-date-parking-spot-assault-case.html">Daily Mail</a> reported at the time. &#8220;I observed the defendant push me and then strike me across the left side of my face with his closed right hand, resulting in pain to my face,&#8221; the alleged victim said, according to court papers.
Baldwin then took to Twitter to complain about what he is faulting Trump for complaining about: unfair media coverage over the claim that he &#8220;punched&#8221; the man, which he denies.
&#8220;Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today&#8217;s story,&#8221; he said in a series of tweets. &#8220;However, the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. I wanted to go on the record stating as much. I realize that it has become a sport to tag people w as many negative charges and defaming allegations as possible for the purposes of clickbait entertainment. Fortunately, no matter how reverberating the echos, it doesn&#8217;t make the statements true.&#8221;
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1- Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today&#8217;s story. 
However, the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. 
I wanted to go on the record stating as much. 
I realize that it has become a sport to tag people w as many negative
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1058493203639427073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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2- negative charges and defaming allegations as possible for the purposes of clickbait entertainment.
Fortunately, no matter how reverberating the echos, it doesn&#8217;t make the statements true.
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1058493772768645121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Despite his popularity on the show, Baldwin&#8217;s pals at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37952/hilarious-snl-jokes-about-alec-baldwin-after-his-joseph-curl">SNL hit him</a> obliquely over the incident, dropping a line about &#8220;disgraced former actor Alec Baldwin, seen here molesting a young Boy Scout&#8221; the day after the arrest.
A few days after the embarrassing parking lot blow-up, Baldwin learned that his new interview show on ABC was getting a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38101/recently-arrested-alec-baldwin-gets-some-bad-news-james-barrett">demotion</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;ABC&#8217;s patience with The Alec Baldwin Show has ended,&#8221; The Hollywood Reporter&#8217;s <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/alec-baldwin-show-bumped-saturdays-december-abc-1158835">Lesley Goldberg</a> reported in early November. &#8220;The network has pulled its remaining episodes of the pretaped talk show from its home on Sundays at 10 p.m., effective Nov. 18. Unaired new episodes of the series, hosted by Baldwin, will resume airing on in its new time slot on Saturdays, starting Dec. 8 at 10 p.m. Production on all the remaining episodes has already been completed.&#8221;
Baldwin, who once was among Trump&#8217;s circle of celebrity pals, has become one of the most vocal of his critics, consistently taking opportunities in public settings to condemn and mock Trump and even writing a satirical book about the president.

Alec Baldwin Says Trump’s SNL ‘Collusion’ Tweet May Be Threat To His Family

&#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; took aim at President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;national emergency&#8221; declaration Saturday night, and the President himself noticed.
In the show&#8217;s cold open, actor Alec Baldwin made a return appearance as the President, giving a press conference on the White House lawn, declaring a &#8220;national emergency&#8221; over the border wall.
&#8220;I&#8217;m here to declare a very urgent, important national emergency,&#8221; Baldwin said, in character as Trump. &#8220;This is a big one, so I don&#8217;t want to waste any time, but first I&#8217;d like to blow my own horn.&#8221;
Baldwin then launched into a tirade about the President&#8217;s recent wellness checkup, embellishing the President&#8217;s health stats, and calling himself &#8220;shredded.&#8221; The actor closed with another impression of Trump.
&#8220;We need wall because wall works,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Wall make safe. You don&#8217;t have to be smart to understand that. In fact, it&#8217;s even easier if you&#8217;re not.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to sign these papers for the emergency then I&#8217;ll immediately be sued, then the court won&#8217;t rule in my favor, then it&#8217;ll go to the Supreme Court, then I&#8217;ll call my buddy Kavanaugh, then I&#8217;ll say it&#8217;s time to repay the Donny, then he&#8217;ll say &#8216;new phone, who this?'&#8221; Baldwin went on.
It&#8230;wasn&#8217;t great. But it was the first of several jabs at Trump throughout the show, with guest host Don Cheadle sending his own messages to the President in the form of two shirts, one reading &#8220;Protect Trans Kids,&#8221; and another, a hockey jersey, with the Russian initials for the USSR, &#8220;CCCP,&#8221; on the front, and &#8220;Trump 45&#8221; printed on the back, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/don-cheadle-uses-clothing-to-advocate-for-trans-youth-criticize-trumps-russia-connection-while-hosting-saturday-night-live">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;As Cheadle thanked the audience during the show&#8217;s closing remarks, while flanked by Clark Jr. and cast members like Leslie Jones, he wore a red and white CCCP hockey jersey emblazoned with the number 45. When he turned around, Trump&#8217;s name was visible at the top, with an inverted &#8216;R,'&#8221; the network reported.
Cheadle is, of course, no stranger to the &#8220;resistance.&#8221; He&#8217;s an open critic of the President on Twitter, and has been outspoken in his advocacy for climate change and against the administration&#8217;s immigration policies.
The full display left the President seething. Sunday morning, Trump tweeted directly at SNL, asking why Republicans were fair game on the show, but Democrats &#8212; who&#8217;ve had a pretty lousy two weeks &#8212; were left almost entirely untouched.
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Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097116612279316480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!&#8221; the President tweeted.
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THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097117499336855553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!&#8221; Trump added.

Trump Lashes Out At SNL After Alec Baldwin Sketch, Accuses Network Of ‘Collusion’

Poor Alec Baldwin.
The Actor With The Terrible Temper (TAWTTT) appeared at a New York court on Monday morning, where he was formally charged with attempted assault in the third degree and harassment in the second degree.
On November 2, Baldwin reportedly wanted to park his Cadillac Escalade in front of his Manhattan building, so he had a family member stand in an open spot, the <a href="https://pagesix.com/2018/11/02/alec-baldwin-arrested-for-punching-driver-over-parking-spot/">New York Post</a> reported. When a driver in a black Saab pulled into the spot, &#8220;Baldwin went ballistic on him, cops and witnesses said,&#8221; according to the Post.
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&#8220;What do you think you&#8217;re doing!&#8221; Baldwin fumed, according to another witness, a construction worker who also declined to be named. &#8220;Alec was yelling &#8216;Shut the f&#8211;k up!&#8217;&#8221; the hardhat added.
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And then there was punching, police said. &#8220;Yelling escalating to shoving, and finally the tantrum-throwing thespian, 60, belted the victim, 49, cops said.&#8221; Baldwin was arrested for misdemeanor assault, held for a while, then released.
On Monday, TAWTTT entered a plea of not guilty during his court appearance, where he did not speak. His lawyer said video of the alleged assault will vindicate Baldwin.
&#8220;There is incontrovertible video evidence that has been turned over to the district attorney&#8217;s office that proves beyond all doubt that Mr. Baldwin never punched anyone,&#8221; lawyer Alan Abramson said. &#8220;We&#8217;re confident that once this matter is fully investigated, it will be resolved swiftly and appropriately in court. &#8230;
&#8220;Mr. Baldwin did not commit any crime and we are confident that once this matter is fully investigated it will be resolved swiftly and appropriately in court,&#8221; he added.
But there&#8217;s more to the story.
&#8220;While the actor has maintained that he never punched anyone over the parking spot, prosecutors said he did tell a police officer that he pushed the man,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6429441/Alec-Baldwin-set-court-date-parking-spot-assault-case.html">Daily Mail</a> reported.
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&#8220;He&#8217;s an a**hole. He stole my spot. I did push him,&#8221; Baldwin allegedly said. &#8230;
Police were told a driver pulled into a Manhattan parking space that one of Baldwin&#8217;s relatives was holding for him, and the two men started quarreling and pushing each other.
Wojciech Cieszkowski told police that Baldwin punched or slapped him over the parking spot.
&#8220;I observed the defendant push me and then strike me across the left side of my face with his closed right hand, resulting in pain to my face,&#8221; Cieszkowski stated after the incident, according to court papers.
The 49-year-old man was taken to a hospital complaining of jaw pain and redness around his neck.
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<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/alec-baldwin-due-in-court-over-parking-spot-punch-assault-case">Fox News</a> reported at the time that the New York Police Department said that Baldwin, who had no identification on him, &#8220;refused to [identify] himself, became belligerent, cursing and yelling. He was then placed in handcuffs.&#8221;
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Baldwin went on a Twitter rant after that arrest, posting the arresting officer&#8217;s name and badge number. The actor tweeted that he was taken into custody while &#8220;photographers outside my home ONCE AGAIN terrified my daughter and nearly hit her with a camera. The police did nothing.&#8221;
He then added, &#8220;New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.&#8221;
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After the alleged incident, Baldwin also took to Twitter to deny the allegations.
&#8220;The assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. I wanted to go on the record stating as much,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter, saying the &#8220;negative charges&#8221; were &#8220;clickbait entertainment.&#8221;
&#8220;Fortunately, no matter how reverberating the echos, it doesn&#8217;t make the statements true,&#8221; Baldwin wrote.
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1- Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today&#8217;s story. 
However, the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. 
I wanted to go on the record stating as much. 
I realize that it has become a sport to tag people w as many negative
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1058493203639427073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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2- negative charges and defaming allegations as possible for the purposes of clickbait entertainment.
Fortunately, no matter how reverberating the echos, it doesn&#8217;t make the statements true.
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1058493772768645121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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‘That A**hole Stole My Spot’: Alec Baldwin Charged With Assault, Admitted He Pushed Victim, Report Says

Alec Baldwin may generally enjoy the special protections of a Hollywood liberal when it comes to crass comments and outrageous behavior, but it appears that the lethal mixture of horrible ratings and an embarrassing arrest was a bit too much for ABC to keep propping up his self-described &#8220;good show.&#8221; Baldwin&#8217;s new show is the only new addition to ABC&#8217;s lineup this season to be relocated to another time slot, and one that is clearly a &#8220;demotion.&#8221;
On Friday, the infamously ill-behaved Baldwin was arrested on charges of assaulting a guy Baldwin says stole his parking spot. &#8220;It looks like it was a dispute over the parking spot, and the person in custody punched him,&#8221; New York Police Department Det. Sophia Mason <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alec-baldwin-police-custody-punching-man-parking-spot-1157630">said</a>. The man in custody, Mason confirmed, was Baldwin, who was booked at the 6th Precinct station.
The arrest earned some mockery from one of his friends at SNL &#8212; which featured a line about &#8220;disgraced former actor Alec Baldwin, seen here molesting a young Boy Scout&#8221; the day after the arrest &#8212; but ABC didn&#8217;t bother making any public comments about the situation, except to say that it would be airing &#8220;The Alec Baldwin Show&#8221; as usual on Sunday at 10 p.m.
But, while the network hasn&#8217;t drawn much attention to the ugly incident, execs have decided it&#8217;s about time Baldwin&#8217;s ratings-challenged show gets relocated to a less preferable spot.
&#8220;ABC&#8217;s patience with The Alec Baldwin Show has ended,&#8221; The Hollywood Reporter&#8217;s <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/alec-baldwin-show-bumped-saturdays-december-abc-1158835">Lesley Goldberg</a> reported Tuesday. &#8220;The network has pulled its remaining episodes of the pretaped talk show from its home on Sundays at 10 p.m., effective Nov. 18. Unaired new episodes of the series, hosted by Baldwin, will resume airing on in its new time slot on Saturdays, starting Dec. 8 at 10 p.m. Production on all the remaining episodes has already been completed.&#8221;
What will air in its place? &#8220;Shark Tank&#8221; repeats, says Goldberg, that is until some holiday programming takes over for a few weeks.
While certainly Baldwin&#8217;s ugly display over his &#8220;stolen&#8221; parking space didn&#8217;t help matters, the real issue with the show is that its ratings have been awful, earning just 1.5 million total views this week, down from its already dismal 2 million views in October.
As The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37973/abc-nbc-give-alec-baldwin-pass-unlike-roseanne-joseph-curl">Joseph Curl</a> noted earlier this week, this isn&#8217;t the first time Baldwin has been involved in a meltdown (formatting adjusted):
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Who can forget the time the &#8220;30 Rock&#8221; actor launched homophobic slurs at a photographer that was taking pictures of him on a public street, calling him a &#8220;c**k-sucking fag.&#8221; And he called a British journo a &#8220;toxic little queen.&#8221; It&#8217;s been a longtime habit of Baldwin, his homophobic rants. Way back in 1992, he called a horse-drawn carriage driver a &#8220;faggot.&#8221;
Then there was the time Baldwin said he hoped a female reporter would &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/tarapalmeri/status/1058434277707255809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1058434277707255809&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2F37973%2Fabc-nbc-give-alec-baldwin-pass-unlike-roseanne-joseph-curl">choke to death</a>.&#8221;
Another time, Baldwin got a ticket riding a bike the wrong way down a one-way street. But he also got belligerent, ripping the police with a spew of profanity, and he ended up in handcuffs (yet again). The list goes on: He was kicked off a flight in 2011 when he refused to turn off his cellphone (he was too busy playing &#8220;Words With Friends&#8221;). On his way out he bashed a bathroom door in a rage. Then there was the time he left a message on an answering machine for his 12-year-old daughter (or 11, he wasn&#8217;t sure) calling her a &#8220;rude, thoughtless little pig.&#8221;
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Despite all that baggage, Baldwin has continued to enjoy the respect and admiration of his fellow limousine liberals &#8212; and more so than ever lately because of his willingness to keep rolling out his pouty Donald Trump impersonation and his hard work producing his even less-funny satirical book mocking Trump. Small price to pay for a lifetime pass to be a jerk to everyone outside the bubble.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37973/abc-nbc-give-alec-baldwin-pass-unlike-roseanne-joseph-curl">ABC, NBC Give Alec Baldwin A Pass, Unlike Roseanne Barr, Megyn Kelly</a>

Recently Arrested Alec Baldwin Gets Some Bad News About His TV Show

It&#8217;s wonderful to be a liberal in Hollywood &#8212; you can get away with anything.
Take Alec Baldwin. He was arrested on Saturday and charged with assaulting a fellow Manhattanite who he claims stole his parking spot. But NBC &#8212; where he stars on &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; playing President Trump &#8212; didn&#8217;t do a thing (other than to make a crude joke on SNL about the attack). And ABC aired &#8220;The Alec Baldwin Show&#8221; on Sunday night as scheduled, offering up no comment at all.
Being a limousine liberal is a get-out-of-jail-free card, and one that Baldwin has played many times.
Who can forget the time the &#8220;30 Rock&#8221; actor launched homophobic slurs at a photographer that was taking pictures of him on a public street, calling him a &#8220;c**k-sucking fag.&#8221; And he called a British journo a &#8220;toxic little queen.&#8221;
It&#8217;s been a longtime habit of Baldwin, his homophobic rants. Way back in 1992, he called a horse-drawn carriage driver a &#8220;faggot.&#8221;
Then there was the time Baldwin said he hoped a female reporter would &#8220;choke to death.&#8221;
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Alec Baldwin also told me &#8220;I hope you choke to death&#8221; when I was on assignment, staking out his house <a href="https://t.co/JAgMkGGwDM">https://t.co/JAgMkGGwDM</a>
&#8212; Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) <a href="https://twitter.com/tarapalmeri/status/1058434277707255809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Another time, Baldwin got a ticket riding a bike the wrong way down a one-way street. But he also got belligerent, ripping the police with a spew of profanity, and he ended up in handcuffs (yet again). The list goes on: He was kicked off a flight in 2011 when he refused to turn off his cellphone (he was too busy playing &#8220;Words With Friends&#8221;). On his way out he bashed a bathroom door in a rage. Then there was the time he left a message on an answering machine for his 12-year-old daughter (or 11, he wasn&#8217;t sure) calling her a &#8220;rude, thoughtless little pig.&#8221;
So, it&#8217;s pretty clear Baldwin has an anger problem. And a homophobia problem. And he&#8217;ll never be named Father of the Year.
But the way Baldwin has been treated has been far different than the treatment of Roseanne Barr and Megyn Kelly, who were big stars for ABC and NBC, respectively. Both were drummed out quickly amid charges of racism &#8212; and it looks, at least right now, as if both have lost their careers.
Yet Baldwin suffers no consequences for his action &#8212; none. Of course, the comments from Barr and Kelly were more incendiary, but they both appeared to be first-time offenders.
NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; meanwhile, made light of Baldwin&#8217;s arrest.
In the show&#8217;s &#8220;cold opening,&#8221; various actors parodied a Fox News segment reporting on the migrant caravan that is currently moving through Mexico toward the U.S. souther border. At the end of the skit, Kate McKinnon, playing Fox host Laura Ingraham, says: &#8220;When we come back, an update from disgraced former actor Alec Baldwin, seen here molesting a young Boy Scout.&#8221; On screen was a photo of Baldwin in a previous skit with Adam Sandler titled &#8220;Canteen Boy.&#8221;
Baldwin has not apologized for the alleged attack over the weekend, but in past incidents, he got away with brief mea culpas.
After he threatened a gay Daily Mail reporter, George Stark, saying &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna f*** &#8230; you &#8230; up,&#8221; he issued a statement to the Gay &amp; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) stating: &#8220;My anger was directed at Mr. Stark for blatantly lying and disseminating libelous information about my wife and her conduct at our friend&#8217;s funeral service. As someone who fights against homophobia, I apologize.&#8221;
And he was good to go.
After he called a photographer a &#8220;c**k-sucking fag,&#8221; he also apologized &#8212; but made more excuses.
&#8220;I did not intend to hurt or offend anyone with my choice of words, but clearly I have &#8212; and for that I am deeply sorry,&#8221; he said.&#8220;Words are important. I understand that, and will choose mine with great care going forward.&#8221;
He then added: &#8220;What I said and did this week, as I was trying to protect my family, was offensive and unacceptable.&#8221;
Now, maybe Baldwin will learn that punching people is also &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221; One way to do that would be to send him to jail if he&#8217;s convicted of assaulting a man.
But he&#8217;ll have his day in court in New York City, and he&#8217;ll be right back on the streets, spewing his homophobic rants and sometimes punching people. Because the rules simply don&#8217;t apply to Hollywood liberals.

ABC, NBC Give Alec Baldwin A Pass, Unlike Roseanne Barr, Megyn Kelly

Gay Rights

&#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; made light of its star Alec Baldwin after the actor was arrested and charged with assault for allegedly punching a man over a parking spot.
In the once-funny show&#8217;s &#8220;cold opening,&#8221; various unfunny actors parodied a Fox News segment reporting on the migrant caravan that is currently moving through Mexico toward the U.S. souther border. At the end of the predictable skit, Kate McKinnon, playing Fox host Laura Ingraham, says: &#8220;When we come back, an update from disgraced former actor Alec Baldwin, seen here molesting a young Boy Scout.&#8221; On screen was a photo of Baldwin in a previous skit with Adam Sandler titled &#8220;Canteen Boy.&#8221;
The skit came one day after Baldwin, star of &#8220;30 Rock&#8221; and currently playing President Trump on &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; wanted to park his Cadillac Escalade in front of his Manhattan building, so he had a family member stand in it. When a driver in a black Saab pulled into the spot, &#8220;Baldwin went ballistic on him, cops and witnesses said,&#8221; the New York Post reported.
Said the Post:
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&#8220;What do you think you&#8217;re doing!&#8221; Baldwin fumed, according to another witness, a construction worker who also declined to be named. &#8220;Alec was yelling &#8216;Shut the f&#8211;k up!&#8217;&#8221; the hardhat added.
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And then there was punching. &#8220;Yelling escalating to shoving, and finally the tantrum-throwing thespian, 60, belted the victim, 49, cops said.&#8221; Baldwin was arrested for misdemeanor assault, held for a while, then released.
The driver of the Saab, Wojciech Cieszkowski, broke his silence on Saturday to talk about the &#8220;punch.&#8221; Asked by a Post reporter how he was feeling, he said: &#8220;You know, sore, but I&#8217;ll be fine.&#8221;
And Cieszkowski, an avid runner who ran the Boston Marathon in 2013 &#8212; in which three people were killed by terrorist bombs and another 264 injured &#8212; told the Daily News he had no idea who the driver attacking him was.
Baldwin took to Twitter to deny the allegations.
&#8220;The assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. I wanted to go on the record stating as much,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter, saying the &#8220;negative charges&#8221; were &#8220;clickbait entertainment.&#8221;
&#8220;Fortunately, no matter how reverberating the echos, it doesn&#8217;t make the statements true,&#8221; Baldwin wrote.
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1- Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today&#8217;s story. 
However, the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. 
I wanted to go on the record stating as much. 
I realize that it has become a sport to tag people w as many negative
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1058493203639427073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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2- negative charges and defaming allegations as possible for the purposes of clickbait entertainment.
Fortunately, no matter how reverberating the echos, it doesn&#8217;t make the statements true.
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1058493772768645121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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But Donald Trump Jr. had some fun at Baldwin&#8217;s expense.
&#8220;I guess Don Lemon was referring to Alec Baldwin when he said white men are the biggest terror threat,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to the CNN host&#8217;s on-air commentary from Monday.
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I guess Don Lemon was referring to Alec Baldwin when he said white men are the biggest terror threat. <a href="https://t.co/i0splf1U6K">https://t.co/i0splf1U6K</a>
&#8212; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1058774371798519809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Trump also slammed the actor for homophobic slurs he uttered about a Post photographer.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t forget the homophobic slurs. Other than all of those things and all of those chances he&#8217;s been given he seems wonderful,&#8221; Trump said.
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Don&#8217;t forget the homophobic slurs. Other than all of those things and all of those chances he&#8217;s been given he seems wonderful. <a href="https://t.co/XvVVTsoEUy">https://t.co/XvVVTsoEUy</a>
&#8212; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1058470706244141058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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HILARIOUS: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Jokes About Alec Baldwin After His Arrest For Punching Driver

The New York Post, whose reporters know home-towner Alec Baldwin best, had this fantastic front page on Saturday.
LIVID! FROM NEW YORK! IT&#8217;S ALEC BALDWIN.&#8221; The sub-headline was even better: &#8220;Rageaholic punches man over parking.&#8221;
The lead, like so many the Post has nailed with snarky perfection, killed:
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The Bloviator strikes again! Notorious hothead Alec Baldwin slugged a driver in the face when the motorist pulled in to park at a spot that was being held for Baldwin, cops said.
&#8220;He just got into an altercation with someone over a parking [spot],&#8221; said one witness to the Friday afternoon fight outside Baldwin&#8217;s building in the Village, and would only identify himself as Albert. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a scene from &#8216;Goodfellas.&#8217;&#8221;
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You can almost hear Baldwin saying, &#8220;Funny how? Funny like I&#8217;m a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I&#8217;m here to f**king amuse you? What do you mean funny? Funny how? How&#8217;m I funny?&#8221;
In case you were, for some reason, enjoying your weekend and not, for some other insane reason, paying attention to everything some pretentious, egomaniacal, self-absorbed Hollywood actor does, here&#8217;s what happened (according to police reports):
Baldwin star of &#8220;30 Rock&#8221; and currently playing President Trump on &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; wanted to park his Cadillac SUV in front of his Manhattan building. So, as any bazillionaire would do, he stationed a family member in an empty spot to hold it for him.
But parking in New York City is war. (See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egsdc7tZ_xc">this Seinfeld clip</a>: &#8220;You can&#8217;t just sneak in from the back like that?!&#8221;).
That, though, is just what some ninja in a black Saab did.
&#8220;When the Saab driver hopped out to feed the meter, Baldwin went ballistic on him, cops and witnesses said.&#8221;
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&#8220;What do you think you&#8217;re doing!&#8221; Baldwin fumed, according to another witness, a construction worker who also declined to be named. &#8220;Alec was yelling &#8216;Shut the f&#8211;k up!&#8217;&#8221; the hardhat added.
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And then there was punching. &#8220;Yelling escalating to shoving, and finally the tantrum-throwing thespian, 60, belted the victim, 49, cops said.&#8221; Baldwin was arrested for misdemeanor assault, held for a while, then released.
Wojciech Cieszkowski, an avid runner who ran the Boston Marathon in 2013 &#8212; in which three people were killed by terrorist bombs and another 264 injured &#8212; broke his silence on Saturday to talk about the &#8220;punch.&#8221; Asked by a Post reporter how he was feeling, he said: &#8220;You know, sore, but I&#8217;ll be fine.&#8221;
But so is Baldwin. He&#8217;s fine. Because every time Baldwin does something like this, off he walks.
The Post, again:
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The last time we saw Alec as his true self, it was May 2014. He was busted after unleashing a torrent of profanities on two uniformed cops who stopped him for riding his bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street in lower Manhattan.
Other greatest hits include his being booted off a flight in 2011 after he refused to turn off his cellphone while playing a game, then bashed a bathroom door in a fit of pique. His brawls with photographers smaller than he is are legendary. And then there was the gay-bashing. He called a British journo a &#8220;toxic little queen&#8217;&#8217; on Twitter and berated a photographer as a &#8220;c&#8212;k-sucking fag.&#8217;&#8217; (He said he called him a &#8220;fathead.&#8217;&#8217; Right.) &#8230;
Alec has been running roughshod over ordinary people for years. But in each case, he is never punished, and his lunatic anger is never halted. He&#8217;s gotten away with it so long, regular rules of behavior simply do not apply.
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Everyone (at least the liberal media) is up in arms over President Trump, saying his rhetoric prompts violence. But Baldwin (who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J0-ZatDHug">once said</a> to his 12-year-old [or 11-year-old daughter, he wasn&#8217;t sure] that she was a &#8220;rude, thoughtless little pig&#8221;) just keeps getting away with his violent ways, a lot like photog-punching Sean Penn.
And you can bet that Baldwin will walk on this latest charge, which he has denied.
&#8220;The assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. I wanted to go on the record stating as much,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter, saying the &#8220;negative charges&#8221; were &#8220;clickbait entertainment.&#8221;
&#8220;Fortunately, no matter how reverberating the echos, it doesn&#8217;t make the statements true,&#8221; Baldwin wrote.
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1- Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today&#8217;s story. 
However, the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. 
I wanted to go on the record stating as much. 
I realize that it has become a sport to tag people w as many negative
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1058493203639427073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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2- negative charges and defaming allegations as possible for the purposes of clickbait entertainment.
Fortunately, no matter how reverberating the echos, it doesn&#8217;t make the statements true.
&#8212; HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/1058493772768645121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Liberals couldn&#8217;t care less. Baldwin will be back on SNL in no time. Because for liberals, the ends always justify the means.

For Violent Homophobe And Virulent Liberal Alec Baldwin, The Law Simply Does Not Apply

So it turns out Alec Baldwin has a hot temper. Who would&#8217;ve thought?
According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alec-baldwin-police-custody-punching-man-parking-spot-1157630">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, the man who plays President Trump as a loudmouth idiot on &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; has been &#8220;arrested in New York for punching a man over a parking spot&#8221; and will be charged with assault.
The incident occurred in front of 28 East 10th St.
New York Police Department Det. Sophia Mason said of the encounter, &#8220;It looks like it was a dispute over the parking spot, and the person in custody punched him.&#8221;
Mason confirmed to THR that the suspect in custody was Alec Baldwin and was being held at the 6th precinct station. Representatives of Alec Baldwin have given no comment at this time.
That the 60-year-old Alec Baldwin was arrested for punching a man over something as ridiculous as a parking spot should come as a shock to no one, given the man&#8217;s history.
In 1995, Baldwin was arrested for<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1995-10-27/local/me-61811_1_alec-baldwin"> allegedly assaulting</a> a photographer for taking photographs of his then-wife Kim Basinger and their three-day-old daughter.
In 2011, Baldwin<a href="https://nypost.com/2011/12/06/alec-baldwin-thrown-off-aa-flight-at-lax-for-playing-game-on-phone/"> became unruly</a> on an American Airlines flight when an attendant asked that he power off his phone for takeoff. He became so belligerent that he had to be removed from the plane, delaying several passengers&#8217; flights.
In 2013, Baldwin lost his show on MSNBC when he called a photographer a &#8220;<a href="http://www.tmz.com/2013/11/14/alec-baldwin-pap-photog-chase-apartment/">c***s***ing f**</a>.&#8221; The homophobic slur did not derail his career.
The actor&#8217;s politics are every bit as heated as his temper, which are often to the left. Recently, he spoke of the need to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37129/alec-baldwin-tells-audience-we-need-overthrow-emily-zanotti">overthrow </a>the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37129/alec-baldwin-tells-audience-we-need-overthrow-emily-zanotti">government</a>&#8221; at a Democratic fundraiser.
&#8220;In an orderly and formal way, and lawful way, we need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump,&#8221; Baldwin said.
&#8220;[This election] and the one that follows in 2020 will be the most consequential elections since the election of FDR,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It is time to overthrow the government of Donald Trump &#8212; not in a violent way or unlawful way &#8212; but it must be overthrown nonetheless.&#8221;
The actor also recently stepped into some interesting waters when he told The Hollywood Reporter that &#8220;black people love me.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to say this and I don&#8217;t want to get it wrong either, because everything is a minefield of bombs going off, but ever since I played Trump, black people love me,&#8221; the actor said. &#8220;They love me.&#8221;
&#8220;Everywhere I go, black people go crazy,&#8221; Baldwin said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re most afraid of Trump. I&#8217;m not going to paint every African-American person with the same brush, but a significant number of them are sitting there going, &#8216;This is going to be bad for black folks.'&#8221;
What is most amazing about Baldwin is that no matter how many times he finds himself in hot water, he always seems to bounce back to the point of getting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37202/alec-baldwins-new-abc-talk-show-dismal-failure-joseph-curl">his own talk show</a> on ABC, which has been doing poorly in the ratings.
&#8220;According to Nielsen, the premiere of &#8216;The Alec Baldwin Show&#8217; on ABC garnered just a 0.4 rating among adults 18-49, the demographic most coveted by advertisers. The Baldwin-hosted chatfest was the lowest-rated program in the demo of any broadcast network &#8212; including the CW,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/alec-baldwins-abc-talk-show-tanks-in-ratings-ranks-below-cw-on-sunday-night">Fox News</a> reported recently. &#8220;By comparison, NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Sunday Night Football&#8217; matchup between the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs earned a 6.1 rating among adults 18-49, CBS&#8217; &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; &#8212; which featured an interview with the president &#8212; drew a 1.9 rating and the CW premieres of &#8216;Supergirl&#8217; and the reboot of &#8216;Charmed&#8217; each drew a 0.5 rating.&#8221;

Alec Baldwin Allegedly Punched Someone Over A Parking Spot. Now He’s Charged With Assault.

Black people may &#8220;love&#8221; Alec Baldwin, but it turns out TV watchers don&#8217;t.
Baldwin, who plays President Trump on &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; has a new show on ABC that debuted last Sunday. It did not go well &#8212; even though he had actor Robert De Niro on for what turned into a nonstop Trump-bashing fest.
&#8220;According to Nielsen, the premiere of &#8216;The Alec Baldwin Show&#8217; on ABC garnered just a 0.4 rating among adults 18-49, the demographic most coveted by advertisers. The Baldwin-hosted chatfest was the lowest-rated program in the demo of any broadcast network &#8212; including the CW,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/alec-baldwins-abc-talk-show-tanks-in-ratings-ranks-below-cw-on-sunday-night">Fox News</a> reported.
&#8220;By comparison, NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Sunday Night Football&#8217; matchup between the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs earned a 6.1 rating among adults 18-49, CBS&#8217; &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; &#8212; which featured an interview with the president &#8212; drew a 1.9 rating and the CW premieres of &#8216;Supergirl&#8217; and the reboot of &#8216;Charmed each drew a 0.5 rating,&#8221; Fox said.
The &#8220;Baldwin Show&#8221; episode featured De Niro, who told the &#8220;30 Rock&#8221; actor that he was &#8220;so offended&#8221; by Trump and &#8220;Republicans in general.&#8221;
&#8220;Everything he says about other people, &#8216;You&#8217;re a loser. You&#8217;re a this. You&#8217;re a that,&#8217; is everything he&#8217;s saying about himself,&#8221; DeNiro said. &#8220;He&#8217;s so transparent. He&#8217;s projecting.&#8221;
Baldwin was in the news just a few days ago when he told The Hollywood Reporter that &#8220;black people love me.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to say this and I don&#8217;t want to get it wrong either, because everything is a minefield of bombs going off, but ever since I played Trump, black people love me,&#8221; the actor said in a story published last Wednesday. &#8220;They love me.&#8221;
&#8220;Everywhere I go, black people go crazy,&#8221; Baldwin said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re most afraid of Trump. I&#8217;m not going to paint every African-American person with the same brush, but a significant number of them are sitting there going, &#8216;This is going to be bad for black folks.&#8217; &#8220;
Maybe Baldwin should invite Kanye West to his new ABC show.

Alec Baldwin’s New ABC Talk Show A Dismal Failure, Gets Pathetic Ratings

Sunday night, Alec Baldwin told a group of high-dollar Democratic donors that &#8220;we need to overthrow the government&#8221; because of President Donald Trump.
Speaking at a fundraiser in New Hampshire, less than a day after reprising his role as Trump on &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; Baldwin tried to convey a sense of urgency to the crowd of mostly &#8220;candidates, officials and activists,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/alec-baldwin-calls-for-overthrow-of-trump-at-dem-fundraiser-in-new-hampshire">Fox News reports</a>, by suggesting merely winning seats in Congress isn&#8217;t enough.
&#8220;In an orderly and formal way, and lawful way, we need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump,&#8221; Baldwin told the crowd to raucous applause.
&#8220;[This election] and the one that follows in 2020 will be the most consequential elections since the election of FDR,&#8221; Baldwin added. &#8220;It is time to overthrow the government of Donald Trump &#8212; not in a violent way or unlawful way &#8212; but it must be overthrown nonetheless.&#8221;
Baldwin did let the audience in on a little secret though, suggesting that neither he nor SNL producer Lorne Michaels expected Trump to win the 2016 Presidential election, and that the pair are still in disbelief that Hillary Clinton lost by several states.
In his speech, Baldwin claimed he was hired to play Trump for &#8220;&#8216;just three shows,&#8221; and that Michaels told him that after the election &#8220;he&#8217;ll be gone.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;Three shows. It will be fun,&#8217; he said,&#8221; Baldwin quipped, quoting Michaels.
For all his talk about overthrowing Trump, though, Baldwin told reporters, after the event, that he&#8217;s not confident that any of the Democratic front-runners &#8212; who appeared for the first time in a CNN primary poll over the weekend &#8212; are well-equipped to beat the New York real estate developer.
&#8220;I&#8217;m hoping that someone that isn&#8217;t necessarily on the horizon right now would materialize,&#8221; Baldwin said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think anybody that&#8217;s a front-runner now of the top six, seven, eight names that I&#8217;ve seen, I don&#8217;t think any of them is going to have an easy time of it.&#8221;

Alec Baldwin Tells Audience ‘We Need To Overthrow The Government’ At Dem Fundraiser

Democratic Party

During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, actor Alec Baldwin bizarrely bragged about how much &#8220;black people love me&#8221; now that he plays President Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to say this and I don&#8217;t want to get it wrong either, because everything is a minefield of bombs going off, but ever since I played Trump, black people love me,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/alec-baldwin-trump-hollywood-why-is-get-him-1150441">said</a> Baldwin, adding, &#8220;They love me. Everywhere I go, black people go crazy. I think it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re most afraid of Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to paint every African-American person with the same brush, but a significant number of them are sitting there going, &#8216;This is going to be bad for black folks,'&#8221; the 60-year-old said.
Baldwin instantly united the Internet, with all sorts of people mocking the actor. Some highlighted how Baldwin&#8217;s comments were ironically reminiscent of the man he loathes so much: Trump; while others took offense over his racial generalization and his so-called &#8220;white privilege.&#8221;
Here are some of the reactions:
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We had one of our big Black bar-b-ques in Wakanda last night, and we couldn&#8217;t stop talking about how much we Blacks just loves us some Alec Baldwin
<a href="https://t.co/hoxuRYzMg9">https://t.co/hoxuRYzMg9</a>
&#8212; Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) <a href="https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1050085568674025473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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That moment when Alec Baldwin actually started turning into Trump <a href="https://t.co/19GdLtomNf">pic.twitter.com/19GdLtomNf</a>
&#8212; Ira (@ira) <a href="https://twitter.com/ira/status/1050083934170624000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Alec Baldwin is announcing his candidacy for the Governor of ThisAintItville. <a href="https://t.co/Kv9dX6LauW">https://t.co/Kv9dX6LauW</a>
&#8212; Phillip Henry (@MajorPhilebrity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MajorPhilebrity/status/1050036344054079488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Is that so <a href="https://t.co/c5UK58XXNF">pic.twitter.com/c5UK58XXNF</a>
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This is the Trumpiest thing ever uttered by someone who isn&#8217;t Trump.
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Good God. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhitePrivilege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WhitePrivilege</a>
&#8212; BriziDoesIt (@PersianKiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/PersianKiss/status/1050056096302473216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The president has previously smacked Baldwin for his mean-spirited portrayal of him on the SNL stage. In March, for example, Trump wrote in a tweet, &#8220;Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony. Alec, it was agony for those who were forced to watch. Bring back Darrell Hammond, funnier and a far greater talent!&#8221;
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Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony. Alec, it was agony for those who were forced to watch. Bring back Darrell Hammond, funnier and a far greater talent!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/969529668234829825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Alec Baldwin Gets Savaged Online After Bizarre Comments On How Much ‘Black People Love Me’

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For its new, already <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/32905/its-official-joker-origin-film-and-leads-not-jared-james-barrett">controversial</a> stand-alone &#8220;Joker&#8221; origin film, Warner Bros. appears to have gone out of its way to infuse some anti-Trump undertones into the film &#8212; bringing in Trump-mocking Alec Baldwin and Trump-cursing Robert De Niro.
Along with Joaquin Phoenix (the Joker) and Zazie Beetz (Sophie Dummond), Baldwin will be joining the production to play Bruce Wayne&#8217;s father &#8212; but not the earnest and revered Thomas Wayne, as portrayed in previous films. No, this Thomas Wayne sounds a whole lot more like Baldwin&#8217;s blond-wigged, pouty-lipped SNL character.
As <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/alec-baldwin-joins-joker-movie-as-bruce-waynes-father-1137843">The Hollywood Reporter</a> puts it, the dark Joker film will deliberately &#8220;veer off-center from the traditional Batman canon,&#8221; including in its portrayal of Baldwin&#8217;s Thomas Wayne, who is written as &#8220;a cheesy and tanned businessman who is more in the mold of a 1980s Donald Trump.&#8221;
De Niro, who hardly goes a week without making a headline or two for yet another foul-mouthed slam on Trump, is also now listed among the cast on <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7286456/">IMDb</a>, though his character has not yet been revealed. Other actors on the project include Marc Maron, Frances Conroy (rumored to be playing Penny), and Josh Pais (Hoyt Vaughn).
&#8220;Hangover&#8221; director <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680846/?ref_=ttfc_fc_dr1#director">Todd Phillips</a> is directing and co-writing, along with writer <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0798788/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr2">Scott Silver.</a>
The film is a bit of a risk on several levels, as it is a significantly darker and more low-budget film (only $55 million) than the usual blockbuster superhero movie. In a previous report announcing Phoenix as having landed the lead, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/joaquin-phoenixs-joker-origin-movie-officially-a-go-1126127">THR</a> noted that the studio has described the film as &#8220;darker and more experimental in tone and content&#8221; and an &#8220;exploration of a man disregarded by society [that] is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.&#8221;
Warner Bros. has made another risky decision related to the film: It&#8217;s reportedly planning to move forward on another Joker film starring Jared Leto, who played the role in &#8220;Suicide Squad.&#8221;
When the Joker origin film was first announced, fans and critics quickly began voicing their concerns about the idea of a mystery-killing origin film about the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32905/its-official-joker-origin-film-and-leads-not-jared-james-barrett">overexposed</a>&#8221; character.
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New ‘Joker’ Film Sure Sounds Like It’s Going Full Anti-Trump

After dedicating over a year to mocking his former pal, Alec Baldwin feels &#8220;one thousand percent&#8221; confident that he can &#8220;absolutely&#8221; beat Donald Trump in 2020.
In a moment reported by The Daily Beast&#8217;s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/alec-baldwin-thinks-he-could-absolutely-beat-trump-in-2020">Matt Wilstein</a>, Baldwin told shock jock Howard Stern Monday that, should he choose to, he could easily take out Trump in the next election.
Stern set up the moment by bringing up who the Democrats should run against Trump in 2020.
&#8220;I can only think of a couple of people who could beat Trump,&#8221; said Baldwin (video below).
&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a name for you: Alec Baldwin,&#8221; said Stern.
&#8220;If I ran, I would win. I would absolutely win. One thousand percent I would win,&#8221; said Baldwin, underscoring later, &#8220;If I ran for president, I would win. Hands down, I would win.&#8221;
&#8220;It would be the funniest, most exciting, craziest campaign,&#8221; the actor added.
As for why he won&#8217;t run, Baldwin cited his desire to spend time with his kids, his wife, who apparently wouldn&#8217;t be so thrilled about the idea, and his new show on ABC, &#8220;The Match Game.&#8221;

As he often does when addressing the topic of Trump, Baldwin quickly dropped the comedy and got serious. The reality is, he said, no one really knows who is going to end up being Trump&#8217;s Democratic opponent. If he ever decides to run, however, he&#8217;d embrace &#8220;very common sense&#8221; positions and do &#8220;obvious&#8221; things.
&#8220;I&#8217;d love to run for that kind of position to just have things be very common sense,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are so many things that this country needs to do that are so obvious.&#8221;
Baldwin also told Stern that he&#8217;d heard that Melania Trump secretly loves his impersonation of her husband, because, the actor suggested, she knows &#8220;what a maniac he is.&#8221;
Clip below via &#8220;The Howard Stern Show&#8221;:
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Last November, Baldwin demonstrated just how much time he&#8217;s sat around thinking about Trump when he published a remarkably unfunny <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/23103/baldwin-launches-anti-trump-parody-book-picture-ben-shapiro">&#8220;so-called parody&#8221; book </a>about Trump, &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story Of My Fantastic First Year As President Donald J. Trump.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a little taste of it:
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My inauguration, the actual legal takeover of the government with the Bible and then the speech, felt totally fantastic. Everybody watching, everybody listening, not just the 2 million or 3 million there on the Mall but like a billion people all over America and all over the world, on TV and online &#8212; probably on radio in Africa and India &#8212; so many watching, so many listening, no laughing, no talking (just me talking), total respect, even the haters terrified into a kind of respect, everyone focused on President Donald J. Trump.
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Though he&#8217;s repeatedly hinted that he might be done impersonating Trump, he&#8217;s still frequenting SNL to reprise the role for the show&#8217;s equally obsessive Trump mockery.
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Guess Which Trump-Obsessed Celebrity Thinks He Can Beat Him In 2020

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Remember when &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; had a field day mocking Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush?
That abruptly ended with the arrival of President Barack Obama at <a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1600+Pennsylvania+Ave.+NW&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g">1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW</a>. The show attempted a few barbs at the country&#8217;s first black president. Then, even the comedian who portrayed Obama on the show, admitted the writers <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/jay-pharoah-snl-obama/">&#8220;gave up&#8221; on mocking the president</a>. 
Today, &#8220;SNL&#8221; won&#8217;t go near Democratic targets. When they do, it&#8217;s sparingly at best. A rare example of left-leaning satire came with the funny faux commercial for &#8220;Woke&#8221; jeans.

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Every comic gun they possess now is trained on President Donald Trump (and all things GOP, for that matter). And people, from former cast members to liberal news outlets, are starting to notice. 
&#8220;SNL&#8221; alum<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/matthew-mcconaughey-rob-schneider-lesson/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1526606477685000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEUAfmb26yb0KQnIsuh5rMEOxq8Eg" href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/matthew-mcconaughey-rob-schneider-lesson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Rob Schneider</a> complained that &#8220;SNL&#8217;s&#8221; liberal crusade is<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/rob-schneider-thinks-saturday-night-live-ruining-joke-article-1.3956596&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1526606477685000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGoURyaOO0NrobyrNphRrJ6l0C2Tg" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/rob-schneider-thinks-saturday-night-live-ruining-joke-article-1.3956596" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> hurting the laughs</a>. Comedy demands empathy and surprise, he argued. Try finding either on &#8220;SNL&#8221; circa 2018. 
&#8220;The fun of &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; was always you never knew which way they leaned politically,&#8221; he told the Daily News. &#8220;You kind of assumed they would lean more left and liberal, but now the cat&#8217;s out of the bag they are completely against Trump, which I think makes it less interesting because you know the direction the piece is going.&#8221; 
Schneider added &#8220;SNL&#8221; player Alec Baldwin&#8217;s take on President Trump is another problem. 
&#8220;To me, the genius of Dana Carvey was Dana always had empathy for the people he played,&#8221; Schneider said about Carvey, the &#8220;SNL&#8221; alum known for his President George H.W. Bush impression. &#8220;Alec Baldwin has nothing but a fuming, seething anger toward the person he plays,&#8221; he explained. 
Now, the left-leaning Vice.com is<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgexy/snl-cold-opens-are-unfunny-elitist-pieces-of-liberal-propaganda&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1526606477686000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEGEpEd3FOnnhzgk9GbUKhMvQxOtg" href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgexy/snl-cold-opens-are-unfunny-elitist-pieces-of-liberal-propaganda" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> doubling down on Schneider&#8217;s comments.</a> 
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SNL, I come as a friend: Your cold opens are terrible, cringeworthy pieces of self-satisfied liberal propaganda that are sometimes so bad they seem like parodies of themselves&#8230; 
The show has shifted to the point where its politics are indistinguishable from the Democratic Party&#8217;s&#8230;. 
If it wanted to wade into edgier waters, it could make some jokes about free speech on campus. SNL actually has done some recent tweaking of the left&#8212;&#8221;Girl at a Bar&#8221; stands out for its evisceration of male feminists&#8212;but most of its political material winds up in the cold opens, and the cold opens are nothing but anti-Trump vitriol all the time. 
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This is from a liberal scribe, mind you. 
This doesn&#8217;t have to remain a problem. Here are seven ways &#8220;SNL&#8221; can bounce back from its current direction. 
1. A Full Apology 
The show&#8217;s creators have insisted for years that it<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2014/02/03/lorne-michaels-snl-republicans-democrats/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1526606477686000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGnjRCxQOgfPUtcmFO7IZTa_WPS-Q" href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2014/02/03/lorne-michaels-snl-republicans-democrats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> doesn&#8217;t have a political bias</a>. That&#8217;s been a laughable claim ever since Obama took the oath of office. Let Lorne Michaels, the show&#8217;s driving force, hit the publicity circuit with an orchestrated mea culpa. Apologies are all the rage anyway in our depressingly woke world. 
2. Show the Cold Open the Door 
Yes, it&#8217;s an essential part of the show. So was <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/time-david-letterman-leave-late-night/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1526606477686000&amp;usg=AFQjCNErccXE9I98OONJtfr8x6t2hp_p0g" href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/time-david-letterman-leave-late-night/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">David Letterman&#8217;s</a> Top 10 list. After a while everything goes stale. Why not open the show in a different way? A blistering monologue? A killer faux commercial? Anything other than riffing on what the show&#8217;s scribes think is the hottest news element of the week? It&#8217;s time to shake the &#8220;SNL&#8221; etch-a-sketch and see what happens. 
3. Follow These Conservatives on Twitter 
The current team of &#8220;SNL&#8221; writers are often very good at what they do. They just need some ideological diversity. If they can&#8217;t think of any way to tweak liberals, read the following Twitter accounts: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://twitter.com/redsteeze&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1526606477686000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEvUMZtQYlQP8py-TvB6fqiJ4xFJA" href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@redsteeze</a> &#8230; Daily Wire editor-in-chief <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://twitter.com/benshapiro&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1526606477686000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFjYftOp2PduU0S6GCj0B7USapaIw" href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@BenShapiro</a> &#8230; <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1526606477686000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFjdU0I5drFO5OsNEB0rTzsKUgVtQ" href="https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@iowahawkblog</a> &#8230; <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://twitter.com/derekahunter&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1526606477686000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEM9a5WT2mlimAwBr7ra29gXEGv_A" href="https://twitter.com/derekahunter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@derekahunter.</a> 
Hiring right-leaning writers would help too, of course. Checking out the aforementioned accounts will not only give writers a sense of what the &#8220;other&#8221; half of the country is thinking, it&#8217;ll inspire a skit or two. 
4. Lose Alec, Stat 
Alec Baldwin epitomizes everything wrong with &#8220;SNL&#8221; today. His hate for Trump, as Schneider says, stains his shtick. Let him go and bring back Darrell Hammond. The &#8220;SNL&#8221; alum does a killer Trump and brings oodles of goodwill to the show. He&#8217;s a legend from another, more bipartisan era. He&#8217;s also a crackerjack performer and an impressionist with few equals. 
5. Just the (Fake) News 
If you watch &#8220;Weekend Update&#8221; these days you know what to expect. A watered down version of what you watch on Kimmel, Colbert, Noah and co. It&#8217;s a rehash of the week&#8217;s headlines from a decidedly left-of-center perspective. 
Why not turn &#8220;Weekend Update&#8221; into a compelling combination of satire and pure funny. Mock the way journalists ply their trade these days (expertly done by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/fake-news-ed-helms-guns/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1526606477686000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHbXkeim1HWSdHmwlLun-IzuWpA3w" href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/fake-news-ed-helms-guns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ed Helms</a> on Comedy Central) while presenting gags in a bipartisan fashion. 
6. No More Homages 
A bad &#8220;SNL&#8221; sketch, and they are legion, is a cringe-worthy affair. At least it&#8217;s a noble effort. Not every comic inspiration leads to gold. And the show&#8217;s 90 minute running time demands to be filled. These fizzled moments are forgivable. 
What&#8217;s not? The show&#8217;s two most embarrassing moments in its illustrious history. &#8220;SNL&#8221; paid homage to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s second presidential campaign fail with a rendition of Leonard Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;Halleluja.&#8221; 
Even worse? 
A &#8220;To Sir, With Love&#8221; cover <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-snl-honor-barack-obama-with-to-sir-with-love-w462360&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1526606477686000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE9JyxIdo0yiZlAyFQFKVk0FOSbbw" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-snl-honor-barack-obama-with-to-sir-with-love-w462360" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">honoring President Obama</a> as he left the Oval Office for the last time. A show dedicated to skewering presidents fawned over a leader they barely touched for eight years. Insufferable hardly describes it. 
7. Stop Calling Viewers Racist 
This one&#8217;s simple. Don&#8217;t attack your audience. Plenty of President Trump supporters grew up watching &#8220;SNL.&#8221; They might keep doing so if the Not Ready for Prime Time Players didn&#8217;t insult them in the coldest way possible. 
Remember that faux Trump ad that directly dubbed his supporters racist? 

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More recently, host Amy Schumer played a high school acting student from Denver who had a strong Southern accent, spouted bigoted lines and quoted from President Trump rallies (&#8220;Lock her up!&#8221;). There&#8217;s an excellent chance that skit alone convinced some viewers to watch something else. Anything else. 

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Christian Toto is editor of the conservative entertainment site HollywoodinToto.com 
A version of this article was originally published on <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/snl-recover-limousine-liberal-agenda/">HollywoodinToto.com</a>.

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