MSNBC “Up Late” host Alec Baldwin, whose show has yet to even air, attacked MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough and show guest Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on Twitter Wednesday.
In the show’s opening segment, Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein got into a back-and-forth with Kristol over whether Republicans are practicing demagoguery with the government shutdown. Scarborough tended to side with Kristol during the debate.
That caught the attention of Baldwin, who used Twitter to vent his frustrations with Scarborough and Kristol’s positions.
1- there is, perhaps, nothing more offensive than watching the out of touch, sanctimonious William Kristol smirk his way through MORNING JOE
— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) October 2, 2013
2- talking about the govt shutdown. Kristol wants to write it off w a C’est la guerre insouciance. More blatantly out of touch white men
— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) October 2, 2013
3- minimizing everyone else’s suffering. Carl Bernstein schools both Kristol and Joe S w the appropriate blend of history, policy, humanism.
— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) October 2, 2013
4-and what’s with Scarborough, barking at his guests in that Hannity-esque Catholic school gym teacher style?
— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) October 2, 2013
15 minutes of Bernstein’s perspectives on Washington are worth more than a month of Morning Joe. A year of Kristol
— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) October 2, 2013
Baldwin had been advised by MSNBC president Phil Griffith to “tone down” his rhetoric on Twitter, advice Baldwin did not seem to take.
(h/t Huffington Post Media)