You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Alec Baldwin.
Sir Alec is nuts. He’s more volatile than Mexican jumping beans snorting Starbucks Dark Roast.
When you are AB, king of Capitol One commercials and SNL and 30 Rock, You gotta suck it up and absorb the paparazzi punishment.
You can’t let a few guys with cameras bait you into looking stupid.
When you are AB, king of the television universe, a constant on the David Letterman show, you gotta understand that you are a target for the insatiable gossip machine that wants your picture.
But more importantly, and you know this AB, you gotta be prepared for them to provoke you. They are going to poke you with a stick and watch you react. When you do coil and then strike like the feisty snake you are, they are going to capture that moment for all posterity in a snap shot or worse, a video.
And here we go again. Barely a week after your last paparazzi confrontation where you have a high profile imbroglio, you have a 2nd incident.
One incident is a mistake. 2 incidents starts to become a police blotter.
You went on Letterman and defended yourself justifying your aggressive actions saying the paparazzi pushed the camera in your face.
It sounded good at the time. But here we go again.
“It should have been a big day for AB because he is getting married to soon,” the morning news anchor says, adding, “He is going to be getting headlines again for all the wrong reasons.”
Roll the video.
A cell phone visual shows a determined, scruffy faced Baldwin going hard and fast at a tiny cameraman. AB is wearing a blue David Letterman T-shirt and is he holding what appears to be his dirty socks under his arm.
The little photog is backing up, his camera dangling from his shoulder.
“I want you out of here,” Baldwin says, with a few choice expletives accentuating his tirade.
Baldwin is unprovoked and the cameraman is on the retreat. Baldwin seems to firmly have a hold of the photographer’s arm.
“You are breaking my arm,” the nasty little photog says.
“Leave him alone,” another cameraman says from the periphery.
“All I’m doing is taking your picture,” the photographer says trying to remove AB’s death grip.
“Why are you squeezing my arm?” the cameraman says, now knowing that a lawsuit is well within his grasp.
According to TMZ, the photographer had confrontations with other residents outside of AB’s apt building.”
Apples and Oranges.
AB should know better. AB needs to exit the building, pull his baseball cap low over his nose and thank his lucky stars he is as freaking rich as he is for doing 30 second TV spots hawking a credit card that likes to affiliate with Vikings.
Instead he is getting a lot of unwanted attention for pushing, shoving and being an over priced bully.
Smile for the camera Alec. Sure hope the judge isn’t watching.
And that is crazy™