Thankfully, the actor Alec Baldwin’s reputation as one of America’s truest middle-aged gentlemen remained intact this afternoon.
On Sunday morning in the East Village, as a New York Post reporter, who is white, and a photographer, who is black, dually approached him, the temperamental Mr. Baldwin erupted.
In his typically restrained manner, Mr. Baldwin, a left-wing political activist, called the photographer, a retired NYPD detective, “a coon,” “a crackhead,” and invited the stunned gentleman to have sex with him.
To the woman reporter, the felicitous Mr. Baldwin said, “I hope you choke to death.”
According to the liberated philosophy of the Left, it is acceptable for left-wingers to call black persons coons.
You are not likely to read about this incident – certainly not the obscene language sunny Mr. Baldwin employed – in the left-wing Los Angeles Titanic or The New York Times because neither newspaper believes in embarrassing its own kind.
To demonstrate that he has as much class as President (Call Me Tiger) Obama, Mr. Baldwin later tweeted:
“Moments after I tweet about the Post, Ralston, the ex-crackhead ‘photographer’ shows up at my door w 1 of Murdoch’s nieces in tow.”
In a separate tweet: “Ralston claims he’s ex NYPD!! That can’t be!!! Ex NYPD don’t become cracked, ex jailhouse paparazzi.”
New York cops don’t know why Mr. Baldwin sought to humiliate the photographer, G.N. Miller, by calling him “Ralston.”
They are investigating Mr. Baldwin for perpetrating a hate crime.
He is expected to beat the rap.
