Four months in the past, Alec Baldwin shot a girl dead.
There’s little question about what occurred, no ambiguity.
The actor was the one holding the gun that discharged stay ammunition that killed movie cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, and likewise wounded director Joel Souza.
Of course, no person believes Baldwin did this on function.
It was clearly a horrible, horrendous accident, and the results of appalling security protocol failures on the set of his Western film, “Rust.”
But he nonetheless did it.
The gun was in his hand when it fired a lethal bullet into his co-worker’s physique and snuffed out her life.
Nobody else’s fingers have been wherever close to the gun.
Therefore, no matter what went on earlier than it went off, Baldwin was finally liable for Hutchins’ demise.
Yet ever since that dreadful day, he has been engaged in a woefully self-pitying PR tour cynically designed to make folks suppose HE was simply as a lot a sufferer as the lady he killed.
He’s repeatedly spewed his indignant denials of any duty to his thousands and thousands of followers on social media, and in tv interviews.
The crux of his protection lies in what he advised ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “I feel that someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but I know it’s not me.”
To which Hutchins’ widower, Matt, who has launched a wrongful demise lawsuit towards Baldwin and two dozen different defendants, retorted: “The idea that the person holding the gun causing it to discharge is not responsible, is absurd to me.”
Yes, to me too.
And, I believe, to everybody with even half a mind who isn’t named Alec Baldwin.
Yet he resolutely refuses to just accept this self-evident truth, blaming anybody and everybody however himself.
In yet one more self-protective efficiency on stage on the Boulder International Film Festival this weekend, he even had the unimaginable gall to assault these like Matt Hutchins who’re searching for authorized redress for what occurred, suggesting they’re solely suing folks like him as a result of he’s wealthy.
“What you have is a certain group of litigants on whatever side,” he mentioned, “who their attitude is, ‘Well, the people who likely seem negligent have enough money. And the people who have money are not negligent, but we’re not gonna let that stop us from doing what we need to do in terms of litigation.’ Why sue people if you’re not going to get money? That’s what you’re doing.”
What a disgustingly insensitive, conceited, dismissive, soulless technique to behave in the direction of a person whose spouse is dead due to Baldwin’s actions.
This newest outburst will do nothing to calm Matt Hutchins’ fury that was ignited by watching Baldwin’s sniveling and cowardly lack of self-accountability on ABC.
In an emotion-charged look on the “Today” program afterward, he raged: “I was just so angry to see him talk about her death so publicly, in such a detailed way and then to not accept any responsibility after having just described killing her.”
I’d be, too.
Wouldn’t all of us in his place?
And that anger will certainly have been exacerbated by the countless stream of self-indulgent crap that each Baldwin and his equally narcissistic and enabling spouse, Hilaria, have pumped out on social media because the taking pictures to attempt to persuade the general public of his whole innocence and victimhood standing.
They’ve filmed and shared themselves smirking and laughing, kissing and cuddling on date nights, enjoying completely happy household with their six kids, and praising one another’s power and braveness.
It’s all been nauseatingly tone-deaf and shockingly disrespectful towards the grieving Hutchins household.
Yet it’s completely predictable conduct by a pair who, after they’re not waging fixed vicious verbal and typically bodily struggle with the media, wallow in a relentless orgy of cringe-making media self-promotion.
In his movie competition look on Saturday, Baldwin even took a name from Hilaria throughout his interview on stage, roaring with laughter as he confirmed her on his cellphone to the viewers, and he or she revealed she was doing a cat puzzle.
Pass the bloody barf bucket.
Their collective lack of self-awareness so quickly after the devastating occasions of just some months in the past defies logic or understanding except you see the larger image, which isn’t misplaced on Matt Hutchins.
“Almost sounds like he was the victim,” he mentioned of Baldwin’s whining to ABC. “And hearing him blame Halyna in the interview and shift responsibility to others and seeing him cry about it, I just feel like, ‘Are we really supposed to feel bad about you, Mr. Baldwin?’”
Yes, that’s precisely what he needs us to really feel, as a result of Alec Baldwin’s a shameful, egocentric slimeball who is set to not be held to even a scintilla of accountability for taking pictures a girl, both in a legal or civil authorized motion.
On the day her widower introduced his lawsuit, Baldwin posted a cryptic message, saying: “In Buddhism, being truthful goes beyond simply not telling lies. It means speaking truthfully and honestly, yes. But it also means using speech to benefit others, and not to use it to benefit only ourselves.”
Oh please.
Aside from the eye-popping hypocrisy of a person who denies killing somebody he killed preaching about honesty, he additionally appears to have forgotten that one in all Buddhism’s 5 most important tenets is to abstain from taking the lives of different dwelling beings.
Alec Baldwin can deny all of it he needs, however he killed Halyna Hutchins.
Not intentionally, however he killed her.
And no quantity of determined Hollywood career-saving spin can change that straightforward truth.
So he ought to shut up together with his deluded, self-serving bulls–t that’s inflicting a lot added ache to the household of his sufferer.
The solely speaking I now wish to hear from him is in a courtroom.
