Political Office In Alec Baldwin's Future?

"As appalling as what you said may be, even more appalling was that it was released by someone," Safer points out.

"That tells you what I'm dealing with," Baldwin says. "But you know, listen, you use words like 'appalled' and you have, if I may say so, a pretty judgmental tone of me. But I think that as truly sorry as I am that that happened, to me it only illustrates how difficult this process has become for many, many people."

He wrote a book about divorce and parental alienation and says he has repaired his relationship with his daughter, and maintains that acting is not his life.

"There's other things I wanna do. I mean, in a matter of weeks, I'm gonna be 50. And I have other things," Baldwin says.

"You're a young man," Safer remarks.

"By '60 Minutes' correspondent terms, I am a young man. I mean, I'm getting pretty close to the 'Law & Order' judge phase of my career, you know," Baldwin says, banging on the table. "'Aright, order. Everyone, order. Continue, counselor.'"

And at 51, he says he still hasn't given up his childhood dream of being a politician. "There's no age limit on running for office, to a degree. Something I might do, one day," Baldwin says.

"If you think being an actor puts you under public scrutiny…," Safer says.

"If you go through the things I've gone through in the media, like this thing with my daughter, there's only one thing that comes to mind initially that is how my daughter must have felt to have this played out in public. The second thing I realize is, you can pretty much bet everything you own that I would never leave another voicemail message for my daughter that wasn't just like something out of a Rogers and Hammerstein score. 'How are you today, my little darling,'" Baldwin says. "You know, whatever. I mean you really, really manage…you know what I mean? You learn. You learn."


Produced by Deirdre Naphin and Katy Textor

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[dknoer3315]

Every Saturday I listen to the classical radio station WUOL And in the evening the announcer is called Alec Baldwin. I assume that it is the actor but all the comments given to Alex Baldwin does not say anything about him being on this classical radio station. Is there another person with the same name and voice doing the announcments on this station?

[bubbadubba]

I don't "love or hate" Baldwin, I just kind of like his acting or the character he plays sometimes.
Baldwin is just another person to me, no one special.

[payasyougo]

"Political Office In Alec Baldwin's Future?"
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A legend in his own mind. Did he move back to the US?

[formrusmcsgt]

Good actor but too much of a hot-head to hold office.

Remember the tirade he unleashed on his daughter?

No thanks, Alec.

[NowBeWithThat]

Yes, why don't we all cast an affirmative vote for the man who berates his own daughter by calling her a "selfish little pig."

Alec Baldwin, the soul of liberalism.

[smoknmirrors]

I'd vote for his doorman.

[rightbehind]

I wish I could vote for him! He needs to pick off a republicrat or republican.

[cranialnemesis]

Alec - please ignore the flaming right hypocrites who are writing these comments. Like everything else they are clueless. I would like them to live up to 10% of their expectations they have of other people. If you decide to run for office I will be the first to sign up to support you.
Thanks for your book. It was outstanding on the issue of parental alienation.

[timdgrim]

Alec Baldwin could become the Progressives' 'Ronald Reagan'. Of course Mr. Baldwin is a much better actor and would probably be a much better politician.

[Justme8811]

Oh boy, that would be even worse than Frankin!