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2013-11-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Pack your bags, Alec! MSNBC fires Baldwin over anti-gay slurs

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Posted by Fred 2013-11-27 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Smart, Alec.

Posted by gorb 2013-11-27 04:09|| 2013-11-27 04:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I have never heard what Alec Baldwin actually called the "Gays". ( is it PC to call them "Gays" I dont want to not be absolutely and completely PC? ).

We don't want the thought police to come and take us away for thinking improper thoughts about our twinkle-toed limp wristed Fag friends, the queerboys, the Pogiebait buttslammers with a taste for the Hershey highway.Oh, no.

Why some of my best friends are sword swallowers.

Let's call them something like "Gays"..it sounds so..umm, Pink. Or is that punk?

Posted by Spereting Tingle4064 2013-11-27 04:13|| 2013-11-27 04:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Alec aka "rage boy" about to explode over this in 10,9,8,... The guys a bully and has an anger problem. Someday, he will run into the wrong person.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-11-27 08:10|| 2013-11-27 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I swear I saw a commercial for MSNBC last night on another channel that basically declared that the (heavily subsidized by cable/satellite bundling) network was now openly the Obama Channel.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-27 08:11|| 2013-11-27 08:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Someday, he will run into the wrong person.

We can only hope. Myself, I refuse to refer to homosexuals by their preferred euphemism.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2013-11-27 10:02|| 2013-11-27 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6 So its okay to slur white female Republican politicians, white males in general, the military, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and the Amish but heaven forbid calling a homosexual anything but "gay" is strictly forbidden.

Kinda gives you a glimpse behind the curtain on the mindset of the liberal media. MSNBC is just the big three with no impulse control, they all basically think the same thing.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-11-27 10:31|| 2013-11-27 10:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Myself, I refuse to refer to homosexuals by their preferred euphemism.

Yeah. And we'd like to get our rainbow back too.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2013-11-27 11:26|| 2013-11-27 11:26|| Front Page Top

#8 The hypocrisy of MSNBC is mind numbing. Its ok to say what the guy said to Sara Palin, but when a guy is being harassed in the streets in his anger he lets out a slur he fired??? As much as Alec is an idiot, this one was wrong and MSNBC is showing itself to be the fascist network it is....

Posted by 49 Pan 2013-11-27 11:53|| 2013-11-27 11:53|| Front Page Top

#9 He was fired NOT for blowing up at fags, But for making his bosses look bad, The bosses can't stand to LOOK bad, whether or not they ARE bad, they HAVE to LOOK good.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-11-27 13:35|| 2013-11-27 13:35|| Front Page Top

#10 #6 So its okay to slur white female Republican politicians, white males in general, the military, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and the Amish but heaven forbid calling a homosexual anything but "gay" is strictly forbidden.

As you strong-minded, industrious folks have probaby noticed, tens of millions of Americans are craving simplicity these days. Simplicity of thought and effort, sure (guilty!), but mostly simplicity of message and purpose. Confidence and purity of heart, even. As we prepare ourselves to sit down with family and friends, knives and forks clutched in tremorous hands, brittle smiles on our faces, to give thanks for the bounty fate, providence, and the electorate have bestowed upon us, could one of you magisterial types (no irony intended) please take a moment to explain why we're destined to lose on this euphemism thing? Why despite decades of mockery and passive resistance, there doesn't seem to be any broad LCD effort to roll it back? No "Words Mean Things" amendment? No "Meaning in Language Protection Act" (viva la raza!)? Why, if these kinds of initiatives exist, they'll never work? Okay, I think I've shamed myself into doing my own homework. Never mind, thanks, and happy Thanksgiving, you bastards (present company excepted).

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2013-11-27 15:48|| 2013-11-27 15:48|| Front Page Top

#11 happy Thanksgiving, you bastards (present company excepted).

Ouch. That doesn't read quite the way I meant. "Happy Thanksgiving" applies to y'all, "bastards" not. Also, I do know irony from sarcasm. Mostly.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2013-11-27 15:57|| 2013-11-27 15:57|| Front Page Top

#12 I hate brittle smiles

Gawd help us, maybe we have an original.
Welcome home ZF6220, I give up.

YooHoo... YooHoo Mucky, U out thar? I knoow U r

Posted by Shipman 2013-11-27 17:44|| 2013-11-27 17:44|| Front Page Top

#13 when a guy is being harassed in the streets in his anger he lets out a slur he's fired???

Wasn't just him, but his family. I'm with Ann Coulter (for once) on this one.

But - he should've used mace.

Posted by Pappy 2013-11-27 19:56|| 2013-11-27 19:56|| Front Page Top

#14 Alec Baldwin is not secret. He was hired to be Alec Baldwin, so spread the liberal news and perhaps have some loose cannon moments to attract viewers. When nobody cared about either hook they had to find a reason to cancel him, and being Alec Baldwin they knew it only was a matter of time before anything which could be trumped up, would be.

I think he should take up sports casting with Olberman. Set them across a table from each other, random topics, and each have a knife taped under their side of the table but do not know the other also has a knife.

Take heart, though the Black Friday Marketeers can only surround Thanksgiving. It is the Sappers of Anti-History who have the ability to destroy it, and this year they call for rakes to open the gates from the inside.

If I had this problem of people not able to shut up for a half hour of good food, and I headed the table, I'd begin, "Cheers and bless you for making it safe to this time of Thanks (group salute and drink). As a matter of protocal, while at this gathering and for 2 hours after our first toast, I must let you know anyone who speaks politics of any sort will not receive the antidote (raises glass for toast, takes big drink, and politely asks those who do not drink to leave the table)."

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-11-27 20:56|| 2013-11-27 20:56|| Front Page Top

#15 "The [parent company] Comcast guys have decided."

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