{"id":25345,"date":"2007-04-20T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T05:01:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-11-01T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:36:47","slug":"will_nbc_fire_alec_baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/04\/20\/will_nbc_fire_alec_baldwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Will NBC Fire Alec Baldwin?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"RUSH: I mentioned at the top of the program that I wondered if NBC would fire Alec Baldwin. Some of you might ask, ‘Why? Why would they fire Alec Baldwin?\u2019 Well, if NBC fired Imus, then the head of NBC News should be fired, the star of the NBC alleged hit show (what is it, 30 Rock that he\u2019s on?) should be fired, and Dingy Harry, ‘Benedict Arnold\u2019 Harry Reid, should be fired or he should resign. We have Alec Baldwin. We have Harry Reid. We have Gonzales. We have Stay Tuned! It\u2019s Open Line Friday. Who knows what\u2019s going to happen during these next 2-1\/2 hours where the Democrats demand somebody else quit.You remember the movie When Harry Met Sally? How about an adaptation? ‘When Harry Met Alec\u2019 One attacks his family, the other attacks his country. Alec Baldwin, one of our leading Hollywood liberal Democrat ‘intellectuals,\u2019 demonstrated what liberals are like when the camera is turned off. I want you to listen to this. Have you heard this? He called his 11-year-old daughter. He\u2019s in a custody fight after a marital split with his wife Kim Basinger. He left this voice mail message for his 11-year-old daughter, ‘Ireland,\u2019 about her father\u2019s scheduled morning phone call to her.BALDWIN: I\u2019m tired of playing this game with you. I\u2019m leaving this message with you to tell you, you have insulted me for the last time. You have insulted me! You don\u2019t have the brains or the decency as a human being. I don\u2019t give a (bleep) that you\u2019re 12-years-old or 11-years-old or that you\u2019re a child or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the (bleep) who doesn\u2019t care about what you do as far as I\u2019m concerned. You have humiliated me for the last time with this phone. This (bleep) you pull on me with this (bleep) phone situation, that you would never dream of doing to your mother, and you do it to me constantly, and over and over again! I am going to get on a plane, and I am going to come out there for the day, and I\u2019m going to straighten your (bleep) out when I see you! Do you understand me? I\u2019m going to reeeeeally make sure you get it! So I\u2019m going to get on a plane. I\u2019m going to turn around and I\u2019m going to come home. So you better be ready Friday the 20th to meet with me. So I\u2019m going to let you know just how I feel about what a rude little pig you really are. You are a rude, thoughtless little pig!RUSH: Alec Baldwin talking to his 11- or 12-year-old daughter. Now, the day of reckoning is today. So I\u2019m wondering, well, NBC gets rid of Don Imus — and this is all over the news, by the way. This is the phone call that nobody heard until, some website, TMZ got it, and just like the Imus situation, nobody heard what Imus said when he said it because his audience was so small, and the people that did hear it didn\u2019t care. It wasn\u2019t until these websites like Media Matters, a Democrat-funded, tax-exempt group that is doing the bidding of Clinton, Inc. (they\u2019re strictly a Democrat front group) put it out there, and you have another group here TMZ putting this out, a celebrity website, Harvey Levin\u2019s bunch, and now the world knows about it. Well, what\u2019s NBC going to do? You\u2019ve got Harry Reid who attacks his country, you\u2019ve got Alec Baldwin attacking his family. He\u2019s one of our leading Hollywood liberal intellectuals! I\u2019m going to tell you, we guys and gals in talk radio, folks, are getting sick and tired of the filth and the degradation and the lack of civility and abuse that happens on TV today, and is perpetrated by those who are on TV. The coarsening of the culture that is occurring because of these people on television, has got to stop. There has to be something done about it, because we on talk radio are getting fed up with it. Harry Reid, isn\u2019t he the highest ranking liberal in government? He demonstrated what liberals really think about supporting the troops. They want defeat, they own it, and they\u2019re not going to stop until they get it. You look at these guys, and you see who they really are, and they tell us what they really are — when they don\u2019t think cameras or microphones are anywhere near them.BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Curtis in Lincoln, Nebraska, I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re next on Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, what a pleasure. Corn Husker dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I just wondered if the actor Baldwin had donated to Senator Barack Obama\u2019s campaign a few weeks ago, and if he was going to return that because of the ‘verbal violence\u2019 from Mr. Baldwin.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ooh, ooh, I love this. I love this. He\u2019s talking about Alec Baldwin\u2019s phone call to his 11-year-old daughter. If you haven\u2019t heard this, this is Alec Baldwin. He\u2019s going through a messy, messy divorce (I don\u2019t know what the status of it is), and a custody battle with his wife or ex-wife, Kim Basinger.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Wouldn\u2019t all 11-year-olds be outraged and offended by that by now — 11-year-old daughters?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but your greater point is it\u2019s ‘verbal violence.\u2019 You had Obama out there talking about the ‘verbal violence\u2019 on —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — the radio, and what my point is, is that we guys and gals in talk radio, are getting sick and tired of all the filth and degradation, the verbal violence, the lack of civility and abuse that\u2019s on TV today or perpetrated by people who are on TV. They keep focusing on us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But that having been said, I want to play this bite. Thanks for that, Curtis, because that\u2019s a brilliant connector, the ‘verbal violence\u2019 one. Here\u2019s Alec Baldwin. This, I guess, was on April 11th. He left this voicemail message for his 11- or 12-year-old daughter Ireland.<\/p>\n

(Replaying of Baldwin sound bite.)<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: All right, now, that is what it is. It is what it is, but one thing, though, I want to mention here — and I\u2019m probably going to get in trouble because people are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to this. I can\u2019t tell you the number of guys that I\u2019ve known over the years (I don\u2019t know any now) in this circumstance, who are going through vicious custody fights in their divorces, and their kids don\u2019t live with them. The kids live with their mother, and the mother is literally poisoning the kids\u2019 minds against the father. You\u2019ve all heard about this. You know that it happens — and it works the other way around. The father can poison the mind against the mother. It\u2019s vicious, vicious stuff. The kids end up being the recipient of it and they get confused and so forth. This is not to excuse Alec Baldwin. Whatever he\u2019s trying to accomplish here, he failed. This is not going to bring his little girl around to him no matter what his wife is saying about him to her. This is not going to accomplish anything. But it is an indication of just what it must be like in this custody fight for him to lash out at the kid, or it could just be he\u2019s a liberal and this is normal. We could be finding out who he is. That\u2019s just an example of the verbal violence that Barack Obama was so upset about, and the caller raised a good question: Has Baldwin donated to Obama, and if so, should Obama return the donation? This would be easy enough to learn. These donations are public. I don\u2019t know who Baldwin has sidled up to in the presidential race.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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