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Alec Baldwin Would Happily Throw His Daughter into a Volcano
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This week, Baldwin appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, where he cheerfully announced that he would toss his daughter, now 13, into a volcano. "[Ireland] is 13 and I see now why, in these films, whenever they represent a Mayan culture, or any tribal culture, or a Hawaiian culture, they always throw a teenage girl into the volcano as a sacrifice," he told Letterman, adding, "I kind of understand why." Apparently, Baldwin isn't a big fan of teenage girls. "They are very opinionated."
Yes, Alec. They're like people that way.
Baldwin does not seem to be liking the teen years. "Everyone always tells me, 'Oh it's their hormones,' and I don't really care," he said. "They should be sent to some kind of Chinese re-education camp in the mountains for five years."
Despite his disdain for teenagers, though, Baldwin said he likes being a father. "I'd love to have more kids. I think about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point," he told Letterman. "Or a Russian one. I don't care, I'm 51."
We're not even sure what to say about that.
While this particular moment of crazy is nothing compared to that voice mail message -- the one where he accused Ireland of being a "rude, thoughtless little pig" and said her mother, Kim Basinger, was a "a thoughtless pain in the a** who doesn't care about what you" -- it is still disturbing. I'm not sure which part of it the most disturbing, though: Baldwin's disdain for his kid, or his total cultural insensitivity. Either way, Baldwin is sounding more and more like Jack Donaghy every day.
Do you find Baldwin's cracks about teens and mail order brides funny? Or has he jumped the shark, as a parent and as a celebrity?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tammy 5-14-2009 @ 11:24AM
This man's business is comedy. What he said was HILARIOUS! How many times has ANY parent every said that they could have "killed" so and so for doing what and what. GET OVER YOURSELVES. I'm sure he wasn't seriously considering throwing her in a volcano. Maybe his kid was behaving like "a thoughtless little pig" and she needed some tuff love to knock the attitude right outta her. Maybe his kids was heading down a path that he didn't like and he had finally had it up to HERE with her behavior! The truth hurts and some times we have to be down right mean with our kids to get through to them. As parents we have to do what it takes to set our kids on the right path to being well rounded, functional adults.
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BradHart 5-14-2009 @ 11:36AM
It is time for a great many people to get off their self-righteous soapboxes and shut their lying hypocritical mouths. Their isn't a parent alive who hasn't said things similar to what Alec has to or about their own children, and regularly thinks them about other people's kids. If you claim you haven't then you are either a liar, using semantics to weedle your way out that statement by claiming it isn't quite accurate, or are a giant heart attack waiting to happen because you haven't yet figured out how to express your anger and outrage at obnoxious children.
If you can't understand why it is the teenage girl they always toss in the volcano or why a good many teenagers could use a little Chinese re-education you either have never lived with one or have a hard time accepting that your kids are the most perfect precious creatures on the face of the earth.
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Ann 6-11-2009 @ 9:26AM
BradHart - Yes, we've probably all said it about our children, but not on television you stupid moron. It's one thing to say it to a friend, but how would you like your parent telling the world they would like to throw you into a volcano. You are one stupid, thoughtless jerk and I'd hate to be your kid.
Jessica 5-14-2009 @ 11:51AM
He is a comedian. There is absolutely zero reasoning for taking his comments so literally---- there has GOT to be something better to do than try to create drama.
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marisas1 5-14-2009 @ 12:42PM
This guy does seem like he has some anger issues. If your a celebrity you need to know everything you say can and will be taken literally right?
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LS 5-14-2009 @ 1:42PM
What I find interesting is that if any of us "regular folk" had acted the way that he (and his wife, after all, she's the one who released the tape of his "pig" comment, if I recall correctly) has behaved, we'd likely be standing in irons, watching Human Services drag our screaming and frightened children off to foster care, because we've heaped regular, repeated, and public emotional abuse on said children.
But he's immune, even called "funny", when all he is, is a petty, despicable pig, who is desperate to hang on to a lackluster career. All because he's a "comedian" and somehow, being a "comedian" erases all responsibility for what he is undoubtedly doing to his 13-year-old daughter.
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SKL 5-14-2009 @ 2:07PM
So does this mean I have to stop telling people I'm going to have my kids' tongues cut out the day after their 12th birthdays? Or going on a 4-year solitary retreat in an Eastern mountain monestary around that time?
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LS 5-14-2009 @ 2:41PM
No, it just means that I'm sick of the double standard. In his own case, two years ago, he was raked across the coals for calling her a "pig", now he's being patted on the back and he's a big hero for saying that he wants to throw her in a volcano. Which is it? Funny or horrific?
And if we regular people did the exact same thing (verbally abusing our child in public, like the "pig" comment), what would happen to us?
One comment, made in an offhand way; or even a series of comments made about a group in general ("teenagers") is funny. Making a habit of degrading your child in public, for your own profit, is just wrong.