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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 190944" data-attributes="member: 1246">Hollywood —    Al Sharpton held a rally outside NBC headquarters in New York City today to demand that the network fire Alec Baldwin for calling his 11-year-old daughter a “rude, thoughtless little pig.” “He can’t throw words like that around and expect to get away with it,” said Sharpton. “Pigs are neither selfish nor thoughtless.”Baldwin stars in the NBC sitcom “30 Rock” and Sharpton is asking his civil and swine rights supporters to boycott the program.“Alec Baldwin’s comments were diabolical and offensive to hogs everywhere,” said Sharpton. “I know pigs really well. I’ve eaten tons of them over my lifetime, and they are the least self-centered animals on this planet. Someone has to stand up for the swine. Mr. Baldwin, you’ve gone too far with your insensitive, corroding words.”Sharpton was a key factor in getting radio host Don Imus fired for referring to members of the mostly black Rutgers team as “nappy-headed hos.”“Al Sharpton is an activist, but he’s also a shrewd businessman,” said Craig Goldman, Chief Media Analyst for the Daily Journal-Bulletin. “The Don Imus contoversy is dying down and he needs a new star to accuse of bigotry. It really makes sense for him to diversify his outrage business beyond civil rights into animal rights.” NBC released a statement late this afternoon: “This is a private matter between Mr. Baldwin and his family and we will thus not be taking any disciplinary action. Unless we lose a sponsor, in which ase Mr. Baldwin will be fired immediately.”The festering bad blood between exes Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger erupted last week when Baldwin left an angry phone message for his daughter that was leaked to TMZ.com.“You don’t have the brains or the decency as a human being,” Baldwin says on the message, apparently upset his daughter did not answer a planned call. “Your mother hasn’t been in a good film since ‘L.A. Confidential.’ That was 10 years ago. Did you see her last movie ‘The Sentinel?’ The New York Times called her ‘inert’ and ‘expressionless.’ Yet I just won a Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a comedy. And I’m the one whose calls you won’t take?! You’re a rude, thoughtless little pig!” Sharpton isn’t the only media personality criticizing Baldwin for his controversial voice mail message.“He must be a very stupid man for leaving such a dumb recording like that when he knows it could get out,” said Bill O’Reilly.“I’ve interviewed him many times, and he should be ashamed by his actions,” said Pat O’Brien, the host of “The Insider.”As for Sharpton, he has invited Alec Baldwin to come on his radio show so he can “grovel and apologize.” Baldwin has, so far, declined the invite, but his brothers Stephen and Daniel Baldwin have offered to appear on his behalf at any time. “Our schedules are completely open,” the pair said in a press release.</blockquote>

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