The Hollywood hypocrisy behind why Alec Baldwin hasn't been canceled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9g4837uJMI

He’s had a decades-long anger-management problem that’s seen him epically rage against flight attendants, low-level staff, police, even his own minor child.

He’s infamous for a long string of homophobic rants he comically claimed weren’t anti-gay.

He took the life of a rising talent and mother of a young son — but callously refuses to take responsibility.

Tell me: Why hasn’t Alec Baldwin been canceled yet?

Media have been chronicling the New York actor’s bad behavior since the 1990s, when he punched his very first photographer — he’s made a habit of getting physical with the press.

And last week a new analysis of the gun with which he killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of “Rust” in 2021 confirmed what investigators — and the rest of us — have known all along: Baldwin pulled the trigger, giving the lie to his pathetic repeated denials.

Yet there he was days later, a big smile on his face, at Robert De Niro’s “star-studded 80th birthday party,” as Page Six reported, welcomed among such idols as, besides the birthday boy, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas and Paul McCartney. (Admittedly, so was disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.)

It’s not just Big Apple hot spots — his smarmy voice makes its way into millions of homes every week.

I’m one of many loyal listeners of the New York Philharmonic’s syndicated radio broadcast.

Baldwin hosts, making him the voice of one of New York City’s most venerable cultural institutions. (Which is about to get new notice with Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic dropping soon; it’s already in the news for its own controversy.)

Yes, America’s oldest symphony orchestra, which has seen the likes of legendary leaders including Dvorak and Mahler, continues to choose as its public face a man who angrily chased after a photographer — after saying, “You know what’s going to happen to you, don’t you?” — calling him a “c—k s—king f—g.”

And that was Baldwin on a good day — his stalker had just been sentenced to seven months in prison.

He claimed he didn’t know the first word of the phrase “is an anti-gay epithet,” saying he’d “retire it from my vocabulary” and “you learn something new every day.”

That’s after saying when TMZ released the video of the tirade, “I would never say something to offend my friends in the gay community.

I’d say that 2013 incident did lose the politically minded actor his MSNBC series, “Up Late with Alec Baldwin.”

But the show had terrible ratings, so his uncouth language, to put it mildly, was likely just a welcome excuse. (Baldwin blamed “the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy.”)

He’s had no trouble getting other work, though, despite more anger-fueled incidents than I can possibly list in a single piece.

He called a gay reporter who wrote a piece he didn’t like a “lying little bitch” and “toxic little queen.”