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Alec Baldwin: Palin on SNL: What Did You Expect?
In 1998, I attended the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington. A friend who is a lobbyist there escorted me to a weekend's worth of events. As we moved around a brunch reception one late morning, I turned and suddenly faced Henry Kissinger. I remember thinking, at that exact moment, that here ...
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Alec Baldwin Defends SNL Against Imaginary Criticism
Jossip — ... Saturday Night Live is becoming a Kuafman-esque Ouroboros, with pretend feuds leaking out onto the stages of Jimmy Kimmel and the like, so you can no longer tell who is actually mad about their SNL caricatures, and who is just pretending to be mad so they can show up for a cameo. And that is totally fine, according to Alec Baldwin, who took out some space at Huffpost to declare his support of Lorne's decision to have VP nominee Sarah Palin ...

SARAH PALIN GETS INFORMED, GETS SOME SUPPORT
Faded Youth Blog — ... Meanwhile, Sarah’s SNL sidekick Alec Baldwin is defending her appearance on the show, asking disappointed viewers what exactly it was that they were expecting. ...

Alec Baldwin Defends Sarah Palin's SNL Appearance
Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton — Left, center, right — SNL welcomes politicians of all political stripes and that's how it should be, sayd Alec Baldwin. Here's what he has to say to those who protested Sexy Sarah's SNL invite. When Alec isn't angry he makes a whole lotta sense! Saturday Night Live is a comedy show. It's not Meet the Press. It doesn't "ask the tough questions" or "set the agenda." It attempts, with varying degrees of success, to make people laugh. That's it. Whether they ...

Can Sarah Palin Really Win Just By Showing Up? [Not Ready For Primetime]
Jezebel — ... , Alec Baldwin says Democrats shouldn't worry or bash SNL over her appearance because "If you think an appearance on Saturday Night Live would sway voters and actually effect the outcome of the election, you may have more contempt for the electorate of this country than the Republican National Committee does." Reviews from the punditocracy might be mixed, but Americans apparently feel that she did pretty well! For one, ...

Lots of Quotables Today!
Evil Beet Gossip — ... the Vice Presidential nominee of one of the two major parties in this country. Don’t put her on SNL? With all of her exposure and the Tina Fey performance? What reality are you in? If you think an appearance on Saturday Night Live would sway voters and actually affect the outcome of the election, you may have more contempt for the electorate of this country than the Republican National Committee does. And that’s a lot of contempt. Alec Baldwin, writing for the Huffington Post, about Palin’s appearance on SNL this past ...

Doggone It: Though he once compared Sarah ... [Alec Baldwin]
Gawker: defamer — ... on Saturday Night Live this weekend, and the blowback he got for the guest spot has him stymied. "Don't put her on SNL? With all of her exposure and the Tina Fey performance? What reality are you in?" he says on the Huffington Post. "If you think an appearance on Saturday Night Live would sway voters and actually affect the outcome of the election, you may have more contempt for the electorate of this country than the Republican National Committee does. And that's a lot of contempt." Still, we must admit to some surprise that the outspoken, ...

alec baldwin tells SNL haters to STFU
Oh No They Didn't!Palin on SNL: What Did You Expect? In 1998, I attended the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington. A friend who is a lobbyist there escorted me to a weekend's worth of events. As we moved around a brunch ...

Alec Baldwin blogs about doing SNL with Sarah Palin
Box Office Psychics — ... So Baldwin went on the Huffington Post and blogged about the incident comparing meeting Palin on SNL to a very civil encounter he had with former Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger (whom Baldwin refers to as his ‘political opposite’) in 1998. ...

Tuesday Morning Notebook
The HeldenFiles Online — ... On the link, Alec Baldwin talks, a bit testily, about Sarah Palin's "Saturday Night Live" appearance. He makes a reasonable point about how you treat people when you are face to face — or when you are their TV host. It reminds me of a long-ago conversation with the notorious Morton Downey Jr. As abrasive as he could be on his own show, he said he dialed it down while appearing on others'. After all, he said, he was their guest. ...

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Vulture — ... "If you think an appearance on Saturday Night Live would sway voters and actually affect the outcome of the election, you may have more contempt for the electorate of this country than the Republican National Committee does. And that's a lot of contempt." —Alec Baldwin on Sarah Palin's SNL appearance [HuffPo] ...

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