Well screw the conservative outlets if they want to diss Alec Baldwin, I mean the Academy Awards is not the venue and the Oscars are not the place in which to attack Baldwin politically....

I dont understand either how actors and show buisness and celebrities are out of touch with mainstream Americans, they are involved with issues such as environmental issues, etc...

This combo seems cool, I dunno why I never thought of Alec Baldwin before, he'll do great and Steve Martin can do no wrong....
---Still wish Robin Williams woulda got chosen......

Gervais at the Globes will murder these two even though the actual show is far inferior... I do like Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin though (Martin more so about ten years before I was born).

I hope that Alec Baldwin reads Colin's open letter to Steve Martin directly to Steve Martin as part of the festivities...

To SEAN: Just some thoughts...opinions....

Most everyday mainstream Americans aren't involved in the same issues as celebs. Now you only listed "environmental issues" as an actual issue...not sure what else "etc" is going to cover. Celebs have the luxury of having way more income than mainstream Americans, and that gives them (the celebs) more free time to devote to things like environmental issues (again...your only example), or "Freeing Tibet" or adopting African children, or saving dolphins, or stopping apartheid, or ....whatever.

Most mainstream Americans deal with going to a job everyday, putting food on the table, gas in their cars, paying a mortgage, feeding their kids...and really...just surviving. Sure, they may know of "environmental issues"....hear about them on the news...read about them on some blog....they may even recycle their plastics and paper and drive a Prius....but that's about as far as it goes. Most mainstream Americans are too busy living their everyday lives. Their thoughts and actions are dictated by it. Celebs with money like Alec Baldwin don't have that perspective....and if they ever did before they became rich and famous....they've most likely lost it. It's the way of the world. Over time, in the same situation, we'd all probably lose it.

And really...what is the definition of "mainstream America"? "Mainstream" is basically the "dominant characteristic". Celebs are not the dominant characteristic. They are a minute percentage of Americans. The dominant characteristic of Americans are the average Joe's who are getting by.

Is Alec Baldwin out of touch with mainstream America? Probably. And so is Kelsey Grammer (first Republican celeb that came to mind)....so are most celebrities.

Well said Emo

your arguement was direct and you clearly had good examples and did it with class

i think you just kinda changed my opinion