This is for getbig "fathers" - biological fathers only, apparently. I've highlighted the parts you don't get, at no charge. Your enlightenment awaits.
It’s time for Alec to get smart
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Hollywood hothead Alec Baldwin served up a lame apology yesterday on “The View,” where he blasted the media and vowed to give up his acting career to devote himself to the “cause of parental alienation.”
Baldwin, 49, taped an interview for the ABC chatfest in an attempt to repair his tarnished image following the firestorm sparked by the release of the angry voice mail he left his 11-year-old daughter.
Sandwiched between co-hosts Rosie O’Donnell and Barbara Walters, the unshaven and tense-looking actor teared up at times, dissed ex-wife Kim Basinger and said people who work in the tabloid media are filled with “self-hatred” and “shame.”
“Obviously, calling your child a pig or anything else is improper and inappropriate, and I apologize to my daughter for that,” said Baldwin, who also apologized to any others who may have been offended.
“There’s nothing wrong with being frustrated or angry about the situation. It’s the way you do it, and as people often do in this world, I took it out on the wrong person,” he added.
High-powered New York publicist Howard Rubenstein said Baldwin’s pledge to quit acting was a bit over the top and that he shouldn’t have pointed fingers. “He ought to keep repeating, ‘I did wrong,’ and then I think it would sound credible,” Rubenstein said.
Doug Bailey of Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications said Baldwin’s appearance has “opened new avenues of debate” about his character, parenting and the sincerity of his lifelong pledge to the issue of parental alienation.
“The strategy should have been go on, make your apology, explain your action, take your punishment and end it there,” Bailey said.
And blaming the media - even if it’s true - is never a good idea, he said.“You just don’t get very far blaming the media for your troubles,” Bailey said.
