After his latest run-in with a paparazzo yesterday, MSNBC host Alec Baldwin took to Twitter to condemn anti-gay slurs, but not acknowledging that he used one. TMZ heard Baldwin call the photographer a “c*ocksucking f*g” during the incident Thursday afternoon.
Anti-gay slurs are wrong. They not only offend, but threaten hard fought tolerance of LGBT rights.
— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) November 14, 2013
I’m grateful to all of the ppl I meet + hear from who recognize that I would never say something to offend my friends in the gay community.
Advertisement— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) November 14, 2013
That wasn’t enough for CNN’s Anderson Cooper who, this morning took some time out of his reporting in the Philippines to call out Baldwin for his excuse. Baldwin claims “acoustic analysis” would prove he used the word fathead. Those tweets have since been deleted from his Twitter account.
Just read Alec Baldwin’s latest excuses. They are actually so ridiculous they are funny
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) November 15, 201
Baldwin has not yet responded to Cooper’s tweets, but the MSNBC host did respond to a local Fox reporter who was outside his home this morning. “You are as dumb as you look,” Baldwin said. “You are with Fox, right?”