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Alec Baldwin still talking, still denying, still blaming

I get that Alec Baldwin is upset over his MSNBC show being canned but I don’t get why he seems to be blaming everyone else for his situation.

Among those he blames: ‘The fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy.’

It all began when Alec, infuriated that a photographer got too close to his wife and baby, was captured by TMZ cameras calling the man a “cocksucking fag.”

A;ec continues to deny he used the word ‘fag’ and claims he did not know ‘cocksucker’ was an anti-gay slur.

He’s somehow painting himself as a victim in the situation.

‘ … You’ve got the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy — (GLAAD spokesman) Rich Ferraro and (journalist) Andrew Sullivan — they’re out there, they’ve got you,’ Baldwin tells Gothamist. ‘Rich Ferraro, this is probably one of his greatest triumphs. They killed my show. And I have to take some responsibility for that myself.’

Baldwin maintains that ‘faggot is not the word that came out of my mouth. That I know.’

So what about the widely-scene TMZ video?

‘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,’ he says.

Ferraro tells The Wrap that it is ‘unfortunate’ the Baldwin team was not open to turning the incident into an opportunity for public education.

He also does not consider Baldwin’s show being taken off the air as his ‘greatest triumph.’

‘I consider GLAAD’s campaigns to end the Boy Scout of America’s ban on gay scouts, raise national visibility of the violence and inequality facing transgender people, and battling for marriage equality to be among my “greatest triumphs,”‘ Ferraro stated.

‘But if a teacher, coach, local radio show host, or parent realizes that anti-LGBT slurs are outdated and unacceptable because of this Baldwin issue, I guess we’ll call it a win.’

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