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(3,811 posts)from a recent incident where Baldwin's wife was attending the funeral of a friend, and while she was at the memorial, some asshole sent a shit-talking tweet about her. A brief "Twitter War" erupted between Baldwin and the asshole, and at one point Baldwin called the prick a "queen".
The conservative crowd, of the type that waits in line for an hour to get a Chik-Fil-A sandwich, seized on this to illustrate, in their mind, how "liberals" and the "liberal media" are hypocritical.
Now, I'm neither defending not condemning Alec Baldwin for how he responded to a shit-heel making asinine comments about his (Baldwin's) wife while she was at a friend's funeral. I might not have responded like he did -- but I might have.
But the particulars of the incidents involving Deen and Baldwin are very different -- certainly not the moral equivalent that the flag-waving, liberal-hating, conservative, know-nothings seem to think it is.