Alec Baldwin Disses Jeane Kirkpatrick, Advocates Disbanding CIA

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By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
December 9, 2006 - 19:15 ET

Arianna Huffington really needs to rethink access to her blog. Lately, the nonsensical ravings of her guests would be much more appropriate at Daily Kos than the Huffington Post.

This abomination by actor Alec Baldwin is a perfect example. On the day America learned it had lost one of the classiest people to ever represent our country at the United Nations, Baldwin chose to disparage her in a way that either questioned her femininity, or insinuated she was a warmonger:

I heard William Bennett on CNN, eulogizing Jean [sic] Kirkpatrick. He referred to her as the GOP's Thatcher and called her "our Iron Lady." What is it about these people that they can never talk of peace? (Even their women have to come across like Vince Lombardi.)

How thoroughly disgraceful. Huffington should either request Baldwin apologize for this detritus, or do it herself.

Yet, that wasn’t Baldwin’s only absurdity (emphasis mine):

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There is a way to defeat terrorism while building new and better alliances in the Arab world. It will be an enormously complex and difficult diplomatic puzzle. But the first step might be oddly simple. Get rid of the CIA, which has outlived its usefulness and is an embarrassment to this great country, and rebuild and reform US intelligence capabilities to fight this new type of threat. I think our hopes must begin there.

Imagine that. According to this genius, getting rid of the nation’s foremost intelligence agency will defeat terrorism. He must also think we could reduce the crime rate by eliminating police officers.

Welcome to enlightened, liberal elite thinking, ladies and gentlemen, brought to you on a daily basis by the editors of the Huffington Post. Arianna must be very proud.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.


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Arianna Huffington is an opportunistic leach.

December 9, 2006 - 19:43 ET by acaiguana

Arianna Huffington is an opportunistic leach.

She doesn't care what gets posted on her 'site'.  She's in it for the fame and prestige of simply having a role to play.  No one takes her or her site seriously.

Well, at least I never have.

ACA

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Acaiguana says:  "Ya can't win if ya don't play."

aca -- you do a grave disse

December 9, 2006 - 20:51 ET by Jack Bauer

aca -- you do a grave disservice to the humble leech which is still used in modern surgery.

Now Cockroach or Parasite, is more like it.

Proud member of the all-powerful and vast
militarist/industrialist/capitalist/zionist-bagelist complex

Well, according to you I at least misspelled it.

December 9, 2006 - 21:12 ET by acaiguana

Well, according to you I at least misspelled it.

:0)

ACA

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Acaiguana says:  "Ya can't win if ya don't play."

I ain't know grama nazi.

December 9, 2006 - 21:22 ET by Jack Bauer

I ain't know grama nazi.

Proud member of the all-powerful and vast
militarist/industrialist/capitalist/zionist-bagelist complex

On Mr. Baldwin

December 9, 2006 - 19:53 ET by Unsane

Well, let's do what we can to keep Mr. Baldwin away from foreign policy and its application, shall we?

I wonder if he ever regrets playing Jack Ryan in The Hunt For Red October...

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy."  -Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman (1874-1965)

Baldwin

December 9, 2006 - 19:59 ET by Sugar Land

Hey, I think Baldwin is the quintessential Hollywood idiot who shows each time he offers his own "pearls of wisdom" that he only gets to "play" smart people on TV.  He's a dolt.

That being said, his comments on Kirkpatrick were hardly what I'd call beyond the pale.  And eliminate the CIA?  I'd rather see it gutted of the leakers and career beureucrats.

Is it just me, or is Arec B

December 9, 2006 - 20:01 ET by Jack Bauer

Is it just me, or is Arec Baldwin's face morphing into L'il Kim Jong Ill, the weird North Korean commie dictator and part-time puppet?

I think it's the eyes.

Proud member of the all-powerful and vast
militarist/industrialist/capitalist/zionist-bagelist complex

I'm not sure if the part Noel

December 9, 2006 - 20:30 ET by RW_the original

I'm not sure if the part Noel pointed out is the strangest thing Baldwin said. What about his bizarre claim that the right wing constantly sees Iraq through a Vietnam prism?

I think that every since he

December 9, 2006 - 20:32 ET by james789

I think that every since he played Jack Ryan in the Hunt for Red October, he has mistakenly decided that he knows everything about intelligence and therefore he feels like Martin Sheen, since he's played the part everybody should listen to him. Personally I think he should put down the crack pipe and get a grip on reality.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price,
peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of
soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt

Wasn't this brain-dead POS su

December 9, 2006 - 20:41 ET by Indiana Joe

Wasn't this brain-dead POS supposed to move to Canada when GWB won in 2000? WTF is he still doing in this country, that he obviously hates so much?

We need a way to deport idiots like this. You make a stupid public statement like that, you should be held to it....

Who gives a rat's hind-end what HE thinks, anyway?

I have ABSOLUTELY no use for this... this... person. 

Point-on, IJ. Liberals so e

December 9, 2006 - 22:24 ET by bulletproof

Point-on, IJ. Liberals so extravagantly overstate their own possibilities that they insult even their own positions! What a fool! What a disrespectful JA! Death will someday humble him thoroughly!

Never use your gun to pistol-wip a Liberal. That could mar the finish.

Why are there news stories

December 9, 2006 - 21:32 ET by guefy

Why are there news stories on here about Adik Baldwin? He's not even a citizen anymore is he? While he may have been born here he already said he was leaving if Bush won so he should be treated that way, whether he left or not.

Alec Baldwin. Should we or

December 9, 2006 - 21:37 ET by mytwocents

Alec Baldwin. Should we or should we not take the advice of the Galactically Stupid!

Should we or should we not

December 9, 2006 - 23:03 ET by Tom1969ca

Should we or should we not take the advice of the Galactically Stupid?

If you're going to quote from A Few Good Men, then I'm going to paraphrase the Best Movie Quote Ever:

Alec Baldwin, you weep for Saddam and you curse the Marines; you have that luxury. You have the luxury of not believing what George W. Bush knows - that the War in Iraq, while tragic, probably saved lives. And the CIA's existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want the Marines on that wall. You need the Marines on that wall. They use words like honor, code, loyalty. They use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that they provide, and then questions the manner in which they provide it. I would rather you just said "Thank you", and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think about the Marines or the CIA!

~~~
"Government should only do what only government can do."
-- Prime Minister Kim Campbell, 1993

Right on Tom, Great paraphras

December 11, 2006 - 11:06 ET by Indiana Joe

Right on Tom,

Great paraphrase of what I also consider one of the best soliloquies in modern films.

Too bad he said the right things for the wrong reasons (the character, that is), but still, a GREAT performance of some GREAT writing!

Regards,
IJ

Tom

December 11, 2006 - 11:26 ET by misterbill

I love it, thank you.

what's the diff?

December 9, 2006 - 22:17 ET by seanrobins

Arianna Huffington really needs to rethink access to her blog. Lately, the nonsensical ravings of her guests would be much more appropriate at Daily Kos than the Huffington Post

Is there a difference?  I haven't noticed.

sean robins
www.seanrobins.com

If Ms. Kirkpatrick were still

December 9, 2006 - 23:06 ET by Free Stinker

If Ms. Kirkpatrick were still alive, she would kick his a$$ for dissing her.

Cowardly wimp waited until she was dead, so he wouldn't get beaten up by a girl.

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The MSM supports the troops.  The enemy's troops!

Baldwin

December 10, 2006 - 09:45 ET by iveseenitall

Baldwin -what can you say?--rude,dumb,ignorant, uneducated, liberal, assinine,putrid little person who isn't worth being taken seriously. As time goes on, Hollywood and the MSM are being exposed more and more for the freak show that they are.

NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal

If Ms. Kirkpatrick were still

December 10, 2006 - 22:11 ET by Galvanic

If Ms. Kirkpatrick were still alive, she would kick his a$$ for dissing her.

Nah.  She was a classier and better person than Baldwin.  She wouldn't dignify his comment with a response.

I would ask Baldwin: "What current, elected Democrat is as strong as Kirkpatrick?" 

Moronic

December 10, 2006 - 11:34 ET by bravefacari

While I have been disappointed and tolerant (turn it off basically) of Alec Baldwin's moronic diatribes...his extremely bad manners in insulting a person who has just died so publically is borderline unforgiveable. But I figure that I will let his parents (if they are still alive) take care of that, as I'm sure they raised him with better manners.

well, for a woman to get the respect of a...

December 10, 2006 - 12:53 ET by Gary Hall

Well, for a woman to get the respect of a radical hate monger like Baldwin, other than the usual requirement of being a Democrat, she'd have to have a soft spoken charm about her, say like a Madeleine Albright:

"What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?" Sec. Madeline Albright

........

....A CBS Sixty Minutes interview between Leslie Stahl and U.S. Secretary  of State Madeleine Albright, on 12 May 1996
Leslie Stahl: "We have heard that a half million children have died (as a result of sanctions against Iraq). I mean, that is more children than died  in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"
Madeleine Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it."

.........

December 16, 1998
Q: Madame Secretary, you've said that you talked to more than a dozen of your counterparts today. France, since these strikes have started, has issued a statement saying that it disassociated itself from the
military action. My question is, what are they telling you about the reasons that, in effect, the US and Britain are acting alone?

........

"....But let me make the following point; which is that the United States is the only superpower. We have responsibilities as such. We stand tall and therefore we can see further."

.......

A CBS Sixty Minutes interview between Leslie Stahl and U.S. Secretary  of State Madeleine Albright, on 12 May 1996

Leslie Stahl: "We have heard that a half million children have died (as a result of sanctions against Iraq). I mean, that is more children than died  in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"

Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it."

You're asking Huffington to exercise a conscience?

December 10, 2006 - 12:56 ET by Guy Arthur Thomas

Huffington long ago threw away any reasonable exercise of conscience so I doubt she will feel the slightest nudge of conscience regarding the disgraceful expression of contempt by Baldwin. Huffington is busy being famous and botoxing, she has little time for a thing called a conscience.

Amusingly Baldwin did offer the sophomoric suggestion that "better alliances" with the Arab world be built but that "it would be an enormously complex and difficult diplomatic puzzle"...hahahahahahahaha. That reminds of little Johnny telling his mommy to invent a time machine to solve her current problems, you know, a great idea but don't ask me to tell you how, just that it is an enormously complex and difficult puzzle. Hahahahahahahaha...what an idiot.

Yuo know- Alec's statements a

December 10, 2006 - 15:52 ET by Nazareth

You know- Alec's statements are a shame- his brother is a staunch strong Christian- can't imagine what he must think listening to garbage like Alec spits out of his festering hate filled mouth.

As freestinker said- he didn't even have the nuts to attack her while she was alive- Alec is full of hate- I just pray that he is ripe for salvation and these assinine statements are nothing but his final throes of resitence!

http://sacredscoop.com

my prayer too

December 10, 2006 - 22:46 ET by LilyPearl

I pray for Alec's salvation too.  I recently read Stephen's book "The Unusual Suspect", and in it he requests prayer that he (Stephen) would be a good Christian example to his family. 

Dear Mr. Baldwin:I've been re

December 10, 2006 - 16:56 ET by Kimberly

Dear Mr. Baldwin:

I've been remarkably tolerant of your foul liberal mouth saying stupid things for years because I happen to think you're an extremely talented actor. But this takes the cake. If you don't even have enough intelligence to understand that there's normally a waiting period involved before speaking ill of the dead, there's no hope left for you and even I'm not going to defend you any more.

In other words, FOAD.

Love and handgrenades,
Kimberly

Alex says......Get rid of the

December 10, 2006 - 22:16 ET by bigtimer

Alex says......Get rid of the CIA,which has outlived its usefulness and is an embarrassment to this great country,

I say insert Alex Baldwin in place of CIA.

"Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again." - Grover Cleveland

I would push for disbanding t

December 11, 2006 - 12:58 ET by taznar

I would push for disbanding the CIA too if everything I knew about them came from Hollywood movies.

It amazes me how completely some of these "Hollywood types" have bought into their own fiction.