{"id":1078512,"date":"2021-12-02T22:43:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078512"},"modified":"2021-12-02T22:43:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:43:47","slug":"alec-baldwin-stephanopoulos-interview-gets-massive-backlash-disgusting-a-money-making-ratings-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alec-baldwin-stephanopoulos-interview-gets-massive-backlash-disgusting-a-money-making-ratings-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin, Stephanopoulos Interview Gets Massive Backlash: &#039;Disgusting,&#039; &#039;A Money Making Ratings Grab&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falec-baldwin-stephanopoulos-interview-gets-massive-backlash-disgusting-a-money-making-ratings-grab%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078512&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/alecbaldwinabc1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Alec Baldwin primetime interview on ABC with George Stephanopoulos did not get the warm welcome the Disney-owned network had hoped for, with a cavalcade of social media users slamming the broadcast as \u201cdisgusting,\u201d a shameless cash grab that disrespects the memory of Halyna Hutchins.<\/p>\n<p>Media members and personalities questioned why ABC News would focus so much of its attention on Alec Baldwin, allotting him a platform to gain sympathy while not focusing on the female cinematographer he accidentally shot and killed on the set of his film <em>Rust&nbsp;<\/em>\u2014 the first of its kind since Brandon Lee\u2019s tragic death on the set of <em>The Crow<\/em> in 1993.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The condemnation came from both sides of the political aisle.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.862385321101\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sorry, but Alec Baldwin sitting down for a tell all is sickening to me. Somebody died. I don\u2019t need to hear your story, Alec. Honor that girl\u2019s memory &amp; show respect to her family by keeping quiet &amp; letting them tell HER story. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABC<\/a> should be ashamed. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BaldwinABC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BaldwinABC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Syke (Taylor\u2019s Version) (@SykeOnAir) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SykeOnAir\/status\/1466576287397335040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1351351351351\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is nothing more than a money making ratings grab on the part of Alec Baldwin &amp; ABC.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Syke (Taylor\u2019s Version) (@SykeOnAir) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SykeOnAir\/status\/1466578775328665601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1111111111111\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Alec Baldwin interview is an absolute disaster. Like almost as bad as Prince Andrew on BBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TianaTheFirst\/status\/1466585655094530050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0791366906475\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have a hard time believing Alec Baldwin\u2019s lawyers thought this was a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Hennessey (@MattHennessey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattHennessey\/status\/1466577853063987200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Marlow Stern of the Daily Beast called the moment \u201cdisgusting\u201d and did not buy Alec Baldwin\u2019s claim that he never \u201cpulled the trigger\u201d when he shot Halyna Hutchins.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.333333333333\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">baldwin&#8217;s claim that he didn&#8217;t pull the trigger but just released the hammer (if true) means the weapon had to have been a slip gun, right? which means the gun was modified, which armorer\/prop dept.\/possibly baldwin should have been aware of<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarlowNYC\/status\/1466579853709398019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/01\/alec-baldwin-breaks-down-says-i-didnt-pull-the-trigger-during-fatal-rust-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>, Alec Baldwin raised more than a few eyebrows when he claimed that he did not pull the trigger on that fateful day on October 21.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t pull the trigger,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/01\/alec-baldwin-breaks-down-says-i-didnt-pull-the-trigger-during-fatal-rust-shooting\/\">Alec Baldwin said<\/a>. \u201cI would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.530259365994\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GStephanopoulos<\/a> how a real bullet got on the &#8220;Rust&#8221; set, Alec Baldwin says: \u201cI have no idea. Someone put a live bullet in a gun. A bullet that wasn\u2019t even supposed to be on the property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch TOMORROW 8pm ET on ABC and stream later on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hulu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hulu<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fJQly1za1T\">https:\/\/t.co\/fJQly1za1T<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OnpDuYERiC\">pic.twitter.com\/OnpDuYERiC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1466104944059199489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.6236559139785\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">this alec baldwin interview really strains credulity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 susie (@banikarim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/banikarim\/status\/1466576680927981568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.161290322581\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">how does George Stephanopoulos involve himself in this project?  <\/p>\n<p>Who is clamoring to hear from Alec Baldwin 6 weeks after he killed a coworker ?<\/p>\n<p>Totally bizarre and tawdry  \u2013 perfect for primetime, right ?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Goins (@dgoins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dgoins\/status\/1466583522748125189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7090909090909\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alec Baldwin\u2019s PR team is paying a lot of money to flood the zone with his magic gun theory. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vvWU1GDfgf\">pic.twitter.com\/vvWU1GDfgf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cernovich\/status\/1466543822133891072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.2452830188679\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s a real problem that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABC<\/a> has tweeted 24 times today about its interview with Alec Baldwin but hasn\u2019t issued a single tweet in that time frame about the victims of the Michigan high school mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Weinsteinlaw\/status\/1466588919294660609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Alec Baldwin says \u201cI feel that someone is responsible for what happened, and I can\u2019t say who that is, but I know it\u2019s not me. I mean, honest to God, if I felt that I was responsible, I might have killed myself if I thought I was responsible, and I don\u2019t say that lightly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alec Baldwin primetime interview on ABC with George Stephanopoulos did not get the warm welcome the Disney-owned network had hoped for, with a cavalcade of social media users slamming &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}