A winning combination, for sure ...
MSNBC reportedly has a new
primetime lineup for its fall political talk show programming – Hollywood’s
very own Alec Baldwin.
He’s going to take the replace the
10 p.m. “Lockup” prison documentary series, Mediaite reported. The show’s not
yet titled but the content is determined: Mr. Baldwin will be hosting a
political show that allows him opportunity to espouse his liberal leanings.
One MSNBC unnamed source told
Mediaite that while the network was a fan of Baldwin, executives aren’t
confirming the show.
Baldwin would bring a colorful
history to the network, though. In June, he took to Twitter to trash a British
journalist as a “toxic little queen,” Breitbart reported. The reason? The
journalist reported that Baldwin’s wife was using social media during a
high-profile funeral service. In 2011, Baldwin was booted from an airplane
for refusing to obey an attendant’s directive and stop playing a computerized Scrabble
word game. And in 2007, he was publicly shamed for calling his daughter a
“rude, thoughtless little pig” in a voicemail message that made the media
rounds, Breitbart reported.
Earlier controversies: In 1998 he
said he’d like to “stone Henry Hyde to death” for that senator’s involvement in
the President Clinton impeachment hearings.
On top of that, Baldwin filled
in as a headline reader and news teaser on MSNBC’s “The Last Word With Lawrence
O’Donnell” in 2012, using what the Los Angeles Times described as a delivery
that reminded of his “30 Rock” sitcom character: Watchers were left waiting for
the punchline, the paper said.
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