Thus far, Alec Baldwin has been sh!tcanned from his show, and was revealed to be something of a whirling dervish of assholery behind the scenes. And if there’s one thing you can count on with assholes, it’s that they will always find someone else to blame for the consequences of their own actions. So of course, Alec is now blaming the gays for getting him fired, rather than the heads of MSNBC who looked at his conduct and went, “You know what? I don’t think we want to deal with this.” Via Gothamist …
“Martin Bashir’s on the air, and he made his comment on the air! I dispute half the comment I made… if I called him ‘cocksucking maggot’ or a ‘cocksucking motherfucker’… ‘faggot’ is not the word that came out of my mouth. That I know. But you’ve got the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy—Rich Ferraro and Andrew Sullivan—they’re out there, they’ve got you. Rich Ferraro, this is probably one of his greatest triumphs. They killed my show. And I have to take some responsibility for that myself.”
So basically, it’s someone else’s fault! It’s always someone else’s fault! Your actions don’t have consequences, it’s just someone else being all thin-skinned and gay about it! In fact, it’s those damned all-powerful gays ruining it for you! Never reflect on your own words actions when you can just blame someone else for it, right? (But seriously, somewhere out there Mel Gibson is face-palming himself, going “The gays, of course! Why didn’t I think of that!”