As if I needed another reason to hope Obama defeats McCain in November.
Anyone who lives, as I have for years, in the Hudson River villages — Nyack, Piermont, Grandview, Palisades — knows how obnoxious local E-List celebrity Stephen Baldwin can be. Whether he’s trying to shut down adult-video boutiques or making multiple trips to the Starbucks on the corner of Main and Broadway, the star of such Hollywood classics as Bio-Dome and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is simply an annoying presence in an otherwise decent community.
Sure, everyone loves them some Alec. And Billy seems content to keep to himself. Hell, even Daniel has been fun to watch in his latest stint as a manic celeb-reality TV star. But holy hell is Stephen irritating. It’s probably the whole insane, right-wing Jesus-loving shit he’s into that drives me most crazy, but even if he wasn’t a Jesus Nazi he’d still bug me. He’s a slimeball and just sort of creeps me out. I think most people who’ve observed him around town would agree, as well.
And that is why I was so happy to hear little Stevie Baldwin pledge to move out of the country if Barack Obama wins the election in November, as if Obama needed any more help winning this uber-liberal portion of New York State. No one man has done more to mobilize support for Obama in the Hudson River Valley than Baldwin did this afternoon. Right now, there are legions of villagers pledging financial and organizational support to the Democratic nominee. It’s not the politics. We just want Stephen Baldwin to go far, far away.
Watch:
Note to Laura Ingraham: Stephen Baldwin only barely counts as an “actor,” and he certainly is not to be considered a “celebrity” guest or Hollywood insider.
Tags: Barack Obama, Fox News, Hudson River Valley, John McCain, Laura Ingraham, Nyack, Stephen Baldwin
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I like the irony of Stephen Baldwin denouncing other celebrities as not speaking for middle and mainstream America. He’s not über-famous, but the only reason he was on a Fox Noise TV segment is because his last name is Baldwin and he’s the MacGuyver smoker from Half Baked, not because he’s some sort of political operative. Do you think he realized that nobody cares about what he thinks just like nobody cares about what his brother Alec or Tim Robbins thinks? Or does his celebrity voice matter because it’s for McCain? He seemed to undermine his own argument simply by existing.
Also, if I can quote his final point, “Why do they keep saying that four more years of McCain is four more years of Bush? That’s the most stupidest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”
Wow. George W. couldn’t have said it any better himself.