"trotsky" wrote in message
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Tom Zielinski wrote:

Are you really defending Baldwin?


Here's my take: I don't defend what he said, I would never say something
like that to a kid in almost any circumstance. There are kids that are
complete beatoffs that deserve some amount of tongue lashing, but we have
no idea if this is the case here, nor do we *deserve* to know. What we
need to start doing is ascribing blame in order of importance: the fact
that Basinger would allow her kid to be humiliated publically by "leaking"
this tape is FAR worse than what Baldwin said, and the disgusting, filthy
pandering media publicizing it is far worse to.


I absolutely agree. Doesn't change the fact that Baldwin said the words.


We didn't need to hear this just like we didn't need to know what was in
the package that Cho sent NBC.


I'm still pondering that. Perhaps it would have been best just to let the
FBI have the package. But I don't agree with those who say that covering
the shooting as a news story is wrong. Would it be better we not know?



Again, I UNDERSTAND the frustration, but
to take it out on a 12 YO with such abusive language? I don't know
anyone who has ever called their own daughter a pig. It's wrong and it's
indefensible, no matter what she did or didn't do. Adults should know
better.

That said, I just got the boxed set of "Not Just the Best of the Larry
Sanders Show", the best written and funniest show in television history.
It includes a recent interview with Baldwin. Highly recommended. (The
Baldwin interview aside.)


Don't worry, that's on my radar. I loved "The Larry Sanders Show" when it
was on, and there aren't a lot of shows I can say that about.


Best written and funniest comedy in the history of television. Rip Torn is
a national treasure. (As my good friend Paul used to say whenever we
discussed the show in the 1990's.)