Ravi Somaiya at the New York Times says:
The actor Alec Baldwin’s short-lived show on MSNBC has been terminated, less than two weeks after he was suspended for making a gay slur in a confrontation with a photographer seeking to get pictures of him with his wife and baby.
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“This is a mutual parting and we wish Alec all the best,” MSNBC said in a statement.
Needless to say, I’m happy about this news. I think actors trying to become liberal mouthpieces turn out, more often than not, to be embarrassments. Even better: Baldwin took himself out before anything too politically serious could happen. I don’t think celebrities should keep quiet about their political beliefs, but I do think that giving celebrities platforms as political experts when they’ve been proven to have a long history of shitty behavior is a bad idea.
In other news, Lara Logan and her producers have finally been put on leave for running that shitty Benghazi story that wasn’t even remotely true. It’s a good day for political media!
Yet Paul Constant still has a job?
“Lara Logan and her producers have finally been put on leave for running that shitty Benghazi story that wasn’t even remotely true.”
You are the Carrot Top of journalists.
HOW’S THE WEATHER OVER THERE IN SCHADENFREUDE CITY, PAUL?
30 Rock already got cancelled. Wait, he had another show?