Last week Alec Baldwin’s sanity train jumped its tracks with an epic hate spewing Twitter rant, and it looks like he’s trying to pick up the pieces. The Wrap has a story about Mr. Baldwin sending an apology off to GLAD, and trying to explain his actions. The whole thing kind of plays out as an exercise is logic gymnastics, at least to the cheap seats that this Waffleboy is sitting in. If you’re new to this story, here’s what you missed. Alec Baldwin and his wife went to James Gandolfini’s funeral, and some reporter ran a story that Mrs. Baldwin was tweeting during the services. Alec Baldwin then proceeded to get very upset, and churned out several tweets that seemed to focus on calling the reporter “a little queen”, and the need for Alec, or a concerned citizen to “F*@k him up.” (You can read about the whole thing here) Anyway, and I’m 100% sure on the timeline, but it seems that shortly after Anderson Cooper pointed out on CNN that Alec Baldwin’s language sounded more than a little homophobic, Alec Baldwin got in touch with the Gay rights group, GLAAD to clear up this misunderstanding. Here are some juicy quotes from The Wrap Baldwin subsequently wrote to GLAAD: ”My ill-advised attack on George Stark of the Daily Mail had absolutely nothing to do with issues of anyone’s sexual orientation. My anger was directed at Mr. Stark for blatantly lying and disseminating libelous information about my wife and her conduct at our friend’s funeral service. As someone who fights against homophobia, I apologize.” Okay, so a reporter said something bad about Alec Baldwin and he put on his cranky pants. Okay, kind of understandable, but what about, you, know, the language? Well don’t you worry, because Alec Baldwin has a perfectly rational explanation for that too. “A queen to me has a different meaning,” he said. “It’s somebody who’s just above. It doesn’t have any necessarily sexual connotations. To me a queen… I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny. It doesn’t have to be a definite sexual connotation, or a homophobic connotation.” He added: “If homosexuality was an issue for me, I would have moved out of New York years ago. I find that laughable.” So i guess that clears that up. [Looks around, makes sure coast is clear] Um, are you buying that? Yeah, me neither. Also, it does absolutely nothing to clear up the ”put my foot up your f—ing ass, George Stark, but I’m sure you’d dig it too much.” quote. Okay, so that was Alec Baldwin’s explanation, and what did GLAAD have to say about all this? GLAAD vice president of communications Rich Ferraro replied: ”Alec Baldwin is making it clear that the intent behind his tweets does not excuse his language, especially at a time when there were 11 incidents of violence against gay men in New York City [...]
Last week Alec Baldwin’s sanity train jumped its tracks with an epic hate spewing Twitter rant, and it looks like he’s trying to pick up the pieces. The Wrap has a story about Mr. Baldwin sending an apology off to GLAD, and trying to explain his actions. The whole thing kind of plays out as an exercise is logic gymnastics, at least to the cheap seats that this Waffleboy is sitting in. If you’re new to this story, here’s what you missed. Alec Baldwin and his wife went to James Gandolfini’s funeral, and some reporter ran a story that Mrs. Baldwin was tweeting during the services. Alec Baldwin then proceeded to get very upset, and churned out several tweets that seemed to focus on calling the reporter “a little queen”, and the need for Alec, or a concerned citizen to “F*@k him up.” (You can read about the whole thing here) Anyway, and I’m 100% sure on the timeline, but it seems that shortly after Anderson Cooper pointed out on CNN that Alec Baldwin’s language sounded more than a little homophobic, Alec Baldwin got in touch with the Gay rights group, GLAAD to clear up this misunderstanding. Here are some juicy quotes from The Wrap Baldwin subsequently wrote to GLAAD: ”My ill-advised attack on George Stark of the Daily Mail had absolutely nothing to do with issues of anyone’s sexual orientation. My anger was directed at Mr. Stark for blatantly lying and disseminating libelous information about my wife and her conduct at our friend’s funeral service. As someone who fights against homophobia, I apologize.” Okay, so a reporter said something bad about Alec Baldwin and he put on his cranky pants. Okay, kind of understandable, but what about, you, know, the language? Well don’t you worry, because Alec Baldwin has a perfectly rational explanation for that too. “A queen to me has a different meaning,” he said. “It’s somebody who’s just above. It doesn’t have any necessarily sexual connotations. To me a queen… I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny. It doesn’t have to be a definite sexual connotation, or a homophobic connotation.” He added: “If homosexuality was an issue for me, I would have moved out of New York years ago. I find that laughable.” So i guess that clears that up. [Looks around, makes sure coast is clear] Um, are you buying that? Yeah, me neither. Also, it does absolutely nothing to clear up the ”put my foot up your f—ing ass, George Stark, but I’m sure you’d dig it too much.” quote. Okay, so that was Alec Baldwin’s explanation, and what did GLAAD have to say about all this? GLAAD vice president of communications Rich Ferraro replied: ”Alec Baldwin is making it clear that the intent behind his tweets does not excuse his language, especially at a time when there were 11 incidents of violence against gay men in New York City [...]