Alec Baldwin is a scumbag
 

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That kid should not have to speak to him if she does not want to, ever.

He is a scumbag and so is Kim Bassinger. How embarrassing for the kid that her Mom released the tape.

Bassinger released it? Damn, she is nuts!

Divorce issues can get pretty ugly. He shouldn't take it out on the daughter, but we don't know what led up to this.

And I gotta say, I hope we never do.

He said it, that she was not answering his calls.
So what?

When things build up, you may only mention the latest thing when you explode.

We know next to nothing.

How do you know the kid didn't release it?

If she did, the family has even more problems.

We know what he said to his daughter...he s a scumbag.

I don't care if she's twenty an burneed his car to the ground... he's a scumbag.

Any father that calls his daughter a pig is himself a pig.

Hmmmm.

By what standards are you judging this guy? Do you know what the language norms are in the family? Do you know the history behind the scheduled calls? Do you know her? Do you know him? Yup, he lost his temper. This happens. It isn't good , but it happens. Who's truly ready to cast the first stone? Should he be better than everyone else because he's in the public eye? Should we really be entitled to view his personal fuck-ups because he's in the public eye?

No doubt, it's not a good father-daughter moment -has nobody else had one of these? I'm hot-headed -I've had plenty of mad moments with my kids. Beest (hubby) is as placid, easy-going and nice as you could ever want a person to be ....but he's had his fair share of rows with the sprogs too. But we're lucky, we aren't famous.

I've called my daughter far worse things than a pig. So has Beest. None have been inappropriate. But then we don't go the "bad words" route. Meaning and intent are what we care about. Yup, we're weird. If our kids are being bitchy, we tell 'em so. Pig would be pretty mild.

How horrible. There is no reason for this man to be talking to an 11 year old girl like that.

Nope, never spoken to a kid like that, mine or anyone's, never. He did not only call her a name... it went far beyond that.
Yep... throwin' the stone.
He should not be around her until he gets serious help.
It is not about the words, it is about context, tone, what he was doing, why and how.
I don't care about "bad words".
Scumbag.

Big difference between saying "don't be a pig" and what he said and how.

I just heard on the news that a court temporarly suspended his visitation rights.

I make a very clear distinction between what a mother can say to her daughter and what a father can say to his daughter. A father simply cannot speak to his daughter that way. A mother has considerably more latitude with her daughter - a little less with her son but father-daughter is, in my opinion, the most delicate of the 4 possible parent-child gender combinations. Especially a twelve year old. If she's 18 or 19 then she already knows who she is - no big deal but at twelve? I find that difficult to accept under any circumstances.

And let's not forget that they weren't in a heated exchange where sometimes things can get out of hand. He was the only one talking and he was talking to a recording device.