The horribly tragic shooting on the set of Rust has, at last, given Americans something to unite around.
All the news and commentary about this matter has revealed that Americans as a whole, liberal and conservative alike, are 100% agreed about Alec Baldwin. We don’t all agree that he bears some responsibility for the death of his DP, we don’t all agree that he is a marvelously talented man, and we certainly don’t all agree on his politics.
But everyone agrees that he’s a total asshole.
In this deeply divided time, this one man, by himself, has done what nobody has been able to do since WW2. He has brought us together as a nation.
We owe him so much.
I think most people agree that he doesn’t bear responsibilities for the death because he fired the shot, but because he was a producer and the production didn’t have a qualified armorer.
Baldwin is extremely talented. But he has a really nasty temper. I couldn’t care less what he does to paparazzi, but he has also berated people that didn’t deserve it. I think asshole is an appropriate description. As for his politics, I am one of those rare people that cares about politics but hates the politics of both Alec and his brother Stephen.
I don’t know, “asshole” has a certain heft to it, almost a kind of gravitas, that Baldwin lacks. I’d say more like he’s a shitheel or maybe an assclown. He would take “asshole” as a compliment.
“… and I’m proud to be an American… where at least I know I’m free…”