I'm behind in my celebrity death pool. I'm thinking of trading Charlie Sheen of Lindsay Lohan for Alec Baldwin. Sure, its a bold move, but I'll look genius when he's found dead of cirrhosis of the liver, lungs, kidneys, legs, arms....

He's absolutely right.

RussianPooper: He's absolutely right.

He may be right about the current conditions of flying in this country, doesn't make him any less of a dick for his actions on that particular flight.

Apos: Sorry,Alec,but you're in the wrong. Pre-flight instructions apply to everyone,and you failed to heed them. Simple as that. A little contriteness goes a long way.

It's alright. He once played a pilot.

maverickzy: If I have this correct, he is using the "Everyone else is doing it." excuse. Didn't work with mom, won't work with overworked flight attendant.

Kinda makes you wish everyone else would jump off a bridge, huh.

Soup4Bonnie: Baldwin aside, why do we have to shut off our phones? And the seat being upright thing. The farker only goes back two degrees. What's the point in that?

Don't forget tray tables

He's right. But in a more important way, he's wrong.

Don't be a dick, especially on a commercial airliner.

WorLord: He's right.

The pre-flight rules are not practical, justifiable, or necessary, especially when the plane isn't moving. The only ethical stance in that case is to disobey them not fly; the most ethically repulsive stance is to side with the rules simply because they exist.

FTFY. You aren't forced to fly, and throwing a temper-tantrum to get your way while inconveniencing every other person on the flight is a dick move.

Again, picking a fight with flight crews is a lose-lose situation. Either you lose the argument and end up off the flight (and maybe in handcuffs) or you win the argument, but you're already off the flight because they have to maintain some schedule and you're taking too damn long arguing a stupid point.

Observation: "Words with Friends" couldn't have bought a better ad campaign
Prediction: Baldwin will arrive at his next Letterman appearance on a Greyhound bus blowing kisses as they roll out a red carpet for him.

Flying is the worst one because people come back from flights and they tell you their story and it's like a horror story. It's, they act like their flight was like a cattle car in the 40's in Germany. That's how bad they make it sound.

They're like it was the worst day of my life. First of all we didn't board for 20 minutes and then we get on the plane and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes. We had to sit there.

Oh really, what happened next? Did you fly through the air incredibly like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight, you non-contributing zero? Wow, you're flying! It's amazing!

Everybody on every plane should just constantly be going, oh my God, wow you're flying, you're, you're sitting in a chair in the sky but it doesn't go back a lot. And it smells.

You know, here's the thing. People like they say there's delays on flights delays really... New York to California in 5 hours. That used to take 30 years to do that and a bunch of you would die on the way there and have a baby. You'd be with a whole different group of people by the time you got there. Now you watch a movie you take a dump and you're home.

barefoot in the head: Now I understand why he thinks anyone would laugh at 30 Rock - which makes me really wonder about many of you.

I'm so hurt I can hardly finish my morning shower scotch.

tgregory: People complain too much.



/I wish this was animated

Guys, he wasn't trying to use his phone in-flight. They were sitting at the gate. Did you guys read what he wrote? At all? Others were being allowed to use their phones while he was told to stop. I don't think he's making excuses for what happened, but he IS using the incident to call attention to a related issue, which is customer service from our airlines, which I agree is kind of crappy. It IS a miracle of science (thank you for the Louis CK quote, it always makes me smile), but that's not an excuse to treat your customers like total ass.

And also, if he was such a self-important blow-hard, then why did he apologize to the other passengers? Self-important blow-hards don't apologize to the people they affect with their shiatty behavior. He KNOWS he acted poorly. He KNOWS his crap behavior negatively affected others & he apologized for it. Besides, "don't do it in the first place" (sorry, still no time machine), what else can he do?


canyoneer: Why do so many people fly all over the place all the time? Seriously: You just go from one indistinguishable urban/suburban conglomeration to another where the cars and restaurants and stores and buildings are the same as the ones you left behind.

Good lord, speakin of blow-hards