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After listening to Alec Baldwin’s seething denunciation of Twitter - via Instagram - I would note that the actor thinks and sounds more like the president he impersonates and loathes than he would ever be willing to admit.
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"People feel like they can say anything. They can say anything. They probably would like to do anything, if they weren’t at risk of getting caught and going to prison, because they can’t do that, because that involves real commitment…” https://bit.ly/3o1wARO
"They say things, no profile picture… no identifying features there, hidden behind the anonymity of social media, you know (blows) They want to just shoot it all over you, spray it all over you, their venom and their hate.”
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Hilaria Baldwin is getting her turn as a punching bag because she’s a convenient target. Plenty of conservatives already find Alec Baldwin insufferable and enjoy the spectacle of his wife looking ridiculous. https://bit.ly/3o1wARO
They already thought celebrities were a bunch of hypocritical phonies and will celebrate any chance to further paint Hollywood as a deranged royal court of narcissistic fools. https://bit.ly/3o1wARO
Meanwhile, plenty of liberals love denouncing the hypocrisy of a rich white woman pretending to be an ethnic minority. https://bit.ly/3o1wARO
And as the NY Post’s Maureen Callahan demonstrates, there is great glee to be found in mocking what she calls “a yoga-loving fawn in the New York City jungle who was definitely, totally not interested in social climbing or landing a rich, famous, older husband.”
And yet… it’s Hilaria Baldwin’s life. If she wants to pretend to be Latina, what difference does it make in our lives? https://bit.ly/3o1wARO
She’s not Brian Williams, making up and exaggerating stories on the evening news. (And you see how minimally Williams’s career was derailed by his fabulism.)
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No one else’s life was really changed by Hilaria claiming to have been born in Spain or pretending she didn’t know the English word for “cucumber.” https://bit.ly/3o1wARO
She didn’t lie on her taxes or under oath in a courtroom. She has no official duties in government, she doesn’t control a powerful corporation, and she didn’t have a huge bestseller based upon a hoax. https://bit.ly/3o1wARO
She’s just a celebrity’s wife who turned into a minor celebrity herself — some would say, “very minor” — who’s been caught playing a persona she presumably thought was more interesting and appealing than her true self. https://bit.ly/3o1wARO
So don’t waste time and energy getting mad at Hilaria Baldwin. If anything, feel a little sorry for her, that she was so dissatisfied with her true self. And if you think you’ve got problems in your life, think of her. At the end of the day, she’s still married to Alec Baldwin.
