This week Alec Baldwin decided
he needed more attention and Tweeted a link to a CNN article
entitled “Gillian Anderson’s American accent throws some people
off”. It was about how Gillian Anderson bounces
between her British and American accents.
Kinda like Alec’s esposa, er,
wife, Hilaria Hillary, who goes back and forth between her native
Spanish and her more native English? Y’all remember the kerfuffle when we
learned that Hillary Baldwin is not from Spain and has been pretending to be
Spanish for years, even though she was born and raised in New England?
But Alec missed the mark here
because, while Gillian Anderson was born in Chicago, shortly after her birth,
her family moved to London, where they lived until she was 11 years old. After
that, they returned to America, but still summered in London. So, clearly Alec saw imagined similarities
between Anderson and Hillary but, to be fair, Gillian has never pretended to be
from England, never acted as though she couldn’t pronounce an American English
word, and didn’t say things like “lift” and “bangers and mash” because she was
faking her ancestry.
And so, Twitter, and Gillian
Anderson fans, came for Alec and read him so badly for filth that he once again
claimed social media is for haters—but not when he uses it—and he’s done with
it; again. And then he posted a nearly ten-minute-long video on Instagram
bitching about the haters:
“Wanted to post a quick video to
say that I deactivated my Twitter account today.”
But he clearly kept his Instagram
because where else can he seek attention. In the video, Alec does not name
Gillian by name but explained about his stupid Tweet:
“I just wrote, ‘Oh, that’s
interesting.’ And of course, you can’t do any irony on Twitter—you can’t do any
irony in the United States anymore because the United States is such [an]
uptight, stressed-out place and such an unpleasant place right now.”
He goes on to say he’s a “huge
fan” of Anderson’s and didn’t mean to offend her, but found it
similar that both Gillian and his wife—who, remember, even changed the spelling
of her name to pretend to be Spanish—are influenced by different cultures:
“But I find that, of course, on
Twitter, which is where all the a**oles in the United States and beyond go to
get their advanced degrees in a**hole-iness, that I had used it as a news
aggregator, and I suppose I will do my best to find other places that are
similar in their news aggregation in real time and periodicals I like.”
Take it down a notch, Karen. It
was clear you were trying to explain away your wife’s decades long lie by
comparing her to Gillian Anderson when there is no comparison. So stay off
Twitter if it’s too hard, but be prepared for the haters, AKA—in your case—the
truth tellers, to find you elsewhere.
And, as you wife would say in her "native" tongue:
“Adios.”
Oops. I mean Goodbye.
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