Alec Baldwin threatens to quit career to protect family

Alec Baldwin is ready to renounce his Hollywood career and he s blaming the media Mayor Bloomberg and Congress.

Seriously.

The famously liberal actor sounded downright Nixonian in a finger pointing Huffington Post rant in which he declared that his retirement was a real possibility.

David Wexler for New York Daily News Baldwin (pictured) and wife Hilaria fled to the Hamptons for solitude. Here the actor outside of a bakery on Saturday.

If quitting the television business the movie business the theater any component of entertainment is necessary in order to bring safety and peace to my family then that is an easy choice wrote the perpetually peeved 30 Rock star.

Baldwin also took shots at the fourth estate and Hizzoner while suggesting the root cause of his boorish behavior came from the ineptitude of elected officials in Washington.

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Barry Williams for New York Daily News Hilaria Baldwin clutching baby Carmen joined hubby Alec Baldwin in Hamptons this weekend.

This country s obsession with the private lives of famous people is tragic wrote Baldwin linking politics and his problems with personal boundaries.

It s tragic in the sense that it is so clearly a projection of people s frustration about their government their economy their own spiritual bankruptcy Baldwin said. You have no voice in Washington.

Baldwin did acknowledge one part of his long career was possibly approaching its end His ratings challenged MSNBC talk show.

New York Daily News

Whether the show comes back at all is at issue right now Baldwin said. But if the show dies its fate ends up being no different than the vast majority of startup TV programming and so be it.

The program launched last month with much ballyhoo lost about 41% of its desirable audience of adults 25 to 54 during its first month on the air.

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David Wexler for New York Daily News Alec Baldwin said nothing but scowled at reporters after leaving Mary's Marvelous bakery in the Hamptons on Saturday.

Baldwin s show was suspended for two weeks over his bitter homophobic remarks to a photographer last week. One of the canceled programs included a piece on the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination.

Behind the scenes cooler heads told the Daily News there were no imminent plans to yank the show or for Baldwin to quit.

Nothing has changed this same cycle of speculation has followed previous incidents without anything changing said a source close to the situation.

Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News What word is said right after the other choice word I use is unclear Baldwin acknowledged in a rant on the Huffington Post.

There has been industry speculation that MSNBC executives were unhappy with Baldwin s ratings but network insiders said that was untrue.

After two days of foulmouthed feuding with reporters and photographers outside his Manhattan home Baldwin and his wife Hilaria fled to the Hamptons for some solitude.

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Baldwin 55 tossed a scowl at reporters but said nothing after leaving Mary s Marvelous bakery luncheonette Saturday afternoon.

The Emmy winning actor instead expressed himself in his lengthy sometimes rambling Internet posting.

Baldwin who reportedly denounced a photographer on Thursday as a c s ing f g defended himself against charges of anti gay bigotry.

Richard Harbus for New York Daily News Hey you just assaulted me a reporter complained to Baldwin. Baldwin smacked a smartphone from one reporter s hands and shoved him against a car.

My friends who happen to be gay are baffled by this he wrote. They see me as one who has recently fought for marriage equality and has been a supporter of gay rights for many years.

Baldwin also insists that he never called the shutterbug a f g but acknowledges he s unsure exactly what word he uttered during his screamfest with the photographer.

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Richard Harbus for New York Daily News Baldwin who reportedly denounced a media member on Thursday as a c s ing f g defended himself against charges of anti gay bigotry.

What word is said right after the other choice word I use is unclear he acknowledged. ... But the assertion that I am a bigoted homophobe travels at light speed ... without fact or reflection (it) is accepted even cheered.

On Friday the serial media basher shouted at a female reporter to get the f out of here outside his Greenwich Village home before demanding her arrest.

His latest meltdowns came after French Canadian actress Genevieve Sabourin was convicted Thursday for stalking Baldwin and his new wife. Sabourin was sentenced to seven months in jail which includes 30 days for contempt of court.

Seth Wenig/AP MSNBC yanked Baldwin's show for two weeks after an encounter the actor had with a photographer on Thursday in which he was heard on videotape allegedly using an anti gay insult.

The Long Island born Baldwin ultimately unleashed his angriest barbs at the media and the mayor.

In Bloomberg s New York 40 or 50 paparazzi are allowed to block streets inconvenience homeowners workers and shoppers and make life miserable for my neighbors he wrote.

They provoke me daily by getting dangerously close to me with their cameras as weapons hoping I will react added Baldwin. When I do the weapon doubles as a device to record my reaction.

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