BALDWIN RAGES AT HANNITY
By JOHN MAINELLI
March 28, 2006 -- ACTOR Alec Baldwin stormed out of WABC's talk-radio studios Sunday night after a vicious verbal battle with Sean Hannity.
The activist actor, who was road-testing his own potential talk show, called Hannity a "no-talent whore" and an "incredibly ignorant boob from Long Island.
Hannity called Baldwin - a favorite punching-bag for conservatives - on the air just as he was beginning his show, and that's when the fur started to fly.
"At first I thought this was a joke," Baldwin told his co-host, Brian Whitman.
Hannity, furious that Baldwin allegedly broke a promise to appear on his show before Whitman's, wasted no time ripping into the liberal activist.
"Welcome to WABC, considering you were supposed to come on my program last week and you didn't show. What happened?" Hannity demanded.
"Why would I want to come on with a no-talent, former-construction-worker hack like you?" Baldwin answered.
"Are you the reckless, third-rate Hollywood actor who said our vice-president, while we're at war, is a terrorist? Are you the guy?" Hannity asked.
"No wonder you didn't come on my program and defend it, you gutless coward."
Baldwin, who refused to answer pointed questions about several political statements, told Hannity he had no problem appearing with Hannity's Fox News Channel colleague, Bill O'Reilly.
"Now, O'Reilly's show I did because O'Reilly has talent," Baldwin said, falling silent.
"I challenge you [to] come on my program, to say on my program that our president is a mass murderer. You don't have the courage," Hannity said.
"You won't talk to Sean?" Whitman pleaded.
"What's the point? What's there to say? Let's do to Sean what Sean would do to a caller. Sean, are you done, honey? Best of luck, Sean, you no-talent whore," Baldwin taunted.
"Coward," Hannity responded.
The fiery exchange continued until WABC's yappy Mark Levin, who'd also called in, asked Baldwin why ex-wife Kim Basinger is "so p--ed off at you."
At that point Baldwin bolted from the studio, cutting his planned two-hour audition in half. |
