Baldwin Talks Firing

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Updated Apr. 17, 2017 5:43PM EDT / Published Nov. 27, 2013 7:41AM EST

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Will somebody please stop Alec Baldwin from talking? The actor on Tuesday blamed the “fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy” for his firing from MSNBC. Sure, that’s it—not the actual statements he made. Baldwin, who is filming a movie with Cameron Crowe in Hawaii, still insisted he hadn’t used the word “faggot,” and said “showing a video in which I call someone a 'cocksucking something'... you can't really tell what I'm saying, and we live in a world in which the phrase 'TMZ's enhanced audio' exists … They killed my show.” Oh that clears it all up. Not.

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Baldwin Talks Firing

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