The Media Research Center hates Alec Baldwin — for being a provocative liberal, for mocking Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” and for generally just existing; a particularly hateful review of a Baldwin-hosted talk show called it “A Bloated, Self-Aggrandizing Snooze-fest – Just Like Him.” The MRC has even demanded that Baldwin’s acting career be destroyed (a sign that its cancel-culture attacks on him have failed, and that they’ll admit it). It’s even still mad at Baldwin for a 1998 fit of hyperbole about wanting to stone Henry Hyde during the Clinton impeachment drama.
So after a tragic accident on a movie set in which a prop gun fired by Baldwin killed a cinematographer and wounded another person, it’s sadly not surprising for the MRC to mock him. An Oct. 22 tweet by MRC executive Tim Graham — pinned to the top of his Twitter feed, no less — felt the need to make hay on the tragedy by repeating a 2006 statement by Baldwin in the wake of then-Vice President Dick Cheney shooting a hunting companion in which he called Cheney a “terrorist” and demanded that he go “into a courtroom to answer some direct questions.”
Never mind that there’s no evidence this was anything other than an accident or even that he was aware that the prop gun contained an apparently live round — indeed, he was reportedly told the gun was safe before the incident. Never mind that Baldwin is fully cooperating with police. Graham has nothing but pure hate for Baldwin, and he decided it was his duty to exploit this tragedy for the sole purpose of taking a partisan shot at the actor.
Remember this the next time any MRC employee claims to have standards, scruples and morals.