Lisa De Moraes's Friday report on Deadline has one clear message: Alec Baldwin's self-announced suspension is over at MSNBC, but his future remains uncertain.
MSNBC has been very quiet since Baldwin announced his Up Late With Alec Baldwin was being taken off the cable news network for two weeks. ... That includes a state of mum-ness in re whether the program, which had sunk about 40% in ratings in its brief five-week life, will return.
But, perhaps unintentionally, Moraes has raised an interesting possibility for the conspiracy-theorists of the world. What if Baldwin's suspension from the network had nothing to do with his anti-gay slurs? What if they got to him? By they, I mean they. You know, them.
Says Moraes, MSNBC's original coverage of the 50th aniversary of the assasination of John Kennedy was meant to include a special edition of Up Late.
...to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, MSNBC planned a primetime lineup that included ... a “very enlightened and well-researched” edition of Up Late, “dealing with John Kennedy’s assassination,” according to that show’s host Alec Baldwin. But after Baldwin went on another homophobic slur-spewing against a photographer earlier this month, his well-researched show on the JFK assassination has been replaced by one of the cable news network’s Lockup programs...
By "very enlightened and well-researched," Baldwin undoubtedly meant "based on the movie by Oliver Stone."
For proof, let's turn to Baldwin's Twitter feed.
What truth is he referring to? Let's slow down the tape and focus on another tweet.
Forget the inherent insult of mall Santas, where is all of this leading? Baldwin raises four major issues:
Do these questions have answers? Well, that's just it. WE WILL NEVER KNOW. Why? Because MSNBC "suspended" Baldwin just before he could provide his "very enlightened and well-researched" answer.
Only, how do we know MSNBC suspended him? MSNBC itself has still never commented on the suspension, and I implore anyone to make sense of why the network would suspend a man for one unscripted outburst shouted in a very stressful situation during the course of his private life, but would not suspend Martin Bashir for saying someone should p*ss and sh*t in a woman's mouth while reading from the network-and-producer-apporved teleprompter over their own airwaves.
There can be only one answer: Baldwin's two week hiatus, and likely the entire incident with the papparazi, was a decoy - a self-imposed exile meant to draw attention away from the fact that THEY GOT TO HIM.
And who are they? Well, the hate-filled, extremist, Right-Wing Shadow Government that killed Kennedy in 1963 of course. And why did they kill the president? Because racist. Or because Tea Party. Or because... hippies? Okay, it's all a little confusing I'll admit, but the truth is out there. I dare anyone to deny it.



