Alec Baldwin: in true Weiner tradition

  Recently Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight for refusing to get off his iPhone and for behaving badly by stomping into the bathroom and pounding the walls in anger when the unreasonable demand was made of him that was made of everyone else.
  After he did this, he/his PR people claimed it was because he was addicted to Words with Friends, a popular Scrabble app. This immediately made news as his "addiction" to an "intellectual" game caused the scuffle.
  Anyone who's flown knows how tiresome it is: treated like cattle, extremely limited in baggage, being suspicious and suspected and manhandled are all indicative of a typical coach airline flight.
  The obnoxious traveler adds yet another concern.
  People like Alec Baldwin (Do you know who I am?) only increase the anxiety of traveling; in addition, anyone who holds up a plane (in this case, rumored to be an hour) from departing deserves whatever he gets.
  In addition:

Other reports say he was booted for more than just playing a game. A passenger on the New York-bound flight told the New York Post that the actor was talking on his phone, and a crew member told the paper that Baldwin was "violent, abusive and aggressive.

  So let's get this straight.
  A "somebody" whose constructed television character is much admired around the country but whose behavior has been reported as abusive in the past and who is rumored to be interested in running to replace Weiner in Democrat office, decides the rules are for everyone else.
  His game (or phone conversation) is too important to follow the rules.
  So last night in further damage control, Baldwin, whose contempt for flight attendants (working people the 99%), for rules, and for civility, went on Saturday Night Live to apologize to himself.
  The video is below.
  It begins to feel as if we are in the 1998 movie The Truman Show. 
  This behavior by Hollywood/DC types is increasingly bizarre; they misbehave and do damage control by writing songs about the incident, appearing in skits, tweeting lies, paying PR people to clean up their messes.
  What we have entered is constructed reality, a sort of reverse Truman Show. From Wikipedia:

In 2008, Popular Mechanics named The Truman Show as one of the 10 most prophetic science fiction films. Journalist Erik Sofge argued that the story reflects the falseness of reality television. "Truman simply lives, and the show's popularity is its straightforward voyeurism. And, like Big Brother, Survivor, and every other reality show on the air, none of his environment is actually real." He deemed it an eerie coincidence that Big Brother made its debut a year after the film's release...[SNIP]... Weir declared, "There has always been this question: Is the audience getting dumber? Or are we filmmakers patronizing them? Is this what they want? Or is this what we're giving them? 

  September 11, 2001, we watched in wondering disbelief. This isn't, can't be real, we marveled. Is it real? Is it a movie? Some still have difficulty with that distinction, signal of our times. 
  Reality?
  The reality is that, like anyone else who doesn't respect boundaries or other human beings' rights, regardless if they're nobodies, Alec Baldwin is an ass.
  He can go on Saturday Night Live all he wants to mitigate that fact but it won't change.
  Like Anthony Weiner whose arrogance overwhelmed him, governed his behavior ("I'm really a big deal") and led to abusive behavior, Alec Baldwin will survive this for just so long. 
  The press and the reality constructers can coo and laugh over the incident, but the truth is that, like most rabid left wingers, Baldwin does not respect the lives of others.
  Yeah, he'd be an accurate replacement for Weiner.