Alec Baldwin Gets Pass, Paula Deen Gets Punished

TMZ isn't cutting Alec Baldwin any slack over his homophobic Twitter rant.

Alec Baldwin -- who puts Paula Deen to shame in the bigotry department -- again showed his true colors with a hate-filled tirade that targeted gays.

A British reporter wrote a story that Baldwin's wife was tweeting recipes and other things during James Gandolfini's funeral. The actor went nuts on twitter, claiming the story was false. Nothing wrong with that.

But then Baldwin played his go-to homophobic card -- he's done it before -- tweeting that the reporter was "a toxic little queen." Baldwin continued, "If (sic) put my foot up your f***ing ass, George Stark, but I'm sure you'd dig it too much."

Baldwin then called the reporter a "f***ing little bitch" several times and then just plain threatened, "I'm gonna f**k you up."

Does Baldwin forget that what he writes on Twitter is on the record for all the world to read?

TMZ's headline: "Alec Baldwin Hates Lots of People But REALLY Hates Gays."

I'm glad that Baldwin isn't being given a pass by the entertainment media.

He didn't just get angry and curse while defending his wife. He said extremely offensive and violent things. They're vulgar and totally unhinged, but revealing.

Baldwin's comments are gay slurs.

He attempted a CYA move, trying to claim that there was nothing homophobic about his tweets.

TMZ has his statement under the headline: "Alec Baldwin Still a Homophobe Now a Liar, Too!"

Alec Baldwin insists he doesn't hate gays ... just "queens" ... and that's just the beginning of the mind-numbingly stupid explanation he just released in the wake of his homophobic Twitter rant.

...Here's what Baldwin had to say:

"The idea of me calling this guy a 'queen' and that being something that people thought is homophobic ... a queen to me has a different meaning. It’s somebody who’s just above. It doesn’t have any necessarily sexual connotations. To me a queen ... I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny. It doesn’t have to be a definite sexual connotation, or a homophobic connotation. To me those are people who think the rules don’t apply to them."

Alec is full of crap ... and here's why: In the same Twitter rant in which he attacked the reporter, George Stark, Baldwin included the threat ... "If (sic) put my foot up your f***ing ass, George Stark, but I'm sure you'd dig it too much."

So let's do some math. Queen + enjoying a foot up your ass = homophobic slur.

Baldwin's excuse is stunningly lame.

Of course, his remarks were homophobic.

So is his career over?

Will he still get work in Hollywood? Will he show up on Saturday Night Live again?

I saw one of his Capital One ads air last night. When is the bank going to dump the raving homophobe Baldwin?

For days, Paula Deen has been tarred and feathered because of racially offensive things she said years ago. The Food Network  dropped her. She's lost endorsements and several stores, like Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and JCPenney, will no longer carry her products. Deen's apologies have not been accepted by her business partners. She's finished, though the public hasn't abandoned her. Understandably, there has been a backlash because of how severely she's being punished.

TMZ raises an interesting question: "Alec Baldwin's homophobic rant against a reporter makes us wonder ... why HE isn't getting slammed like Paula Deen? Sounds horrible to say, but is America more okay with verbal attacks on gays than Blacks?"

I think the forgiveness that Baldwin gets over and over again is related to his politics. He's a dyed-in-the-wool lib. His fellow Leftists won't turn against him. Don't expect to see Matt Lauer harassing him and bringing him to tears on Today as he begs the public to forgive him.

From FOX News:

Dan Gainor, vice president of business and culture for Media Research Center, told FOX411 he doubts Baldwin's endorsement deals would be impacted by his tweets.

"This is the kind of incident that shows the hypocrisy of the liberal media. Paula Deen says something bad decades ago and has her whole career destroyed," he said. "Alec Baldwin fills his career with embarrassing moments – saying awful things to his daughter, getting kicked off an airplane and now, the ultimate PC sin, anti-gay comments. And his career will continue unharmed."

Indeed this is not Baldwin's first tech-based tirade. He was thrown off an airplane in 2011 for refusing to turn his phone off while playing Words With Friends. And following a Feburary altercation with a newspaper photographer, Baldwin reportedly made racist remarks, calling him a "coon" and a "crackhead."

“He was saying some serious racist stuff,” New York Post photographer G.N. Miller said at the time. “He said some choice words about my mother, and he was telling people in the street that I’m a drug dealer."

Baldwin denied he made those statements.

Of course he did. He can get away with anything. Baldwin won't get the Paula Deen treatment.

I do think it's time to question why Capital One wants such a hate-filled, out of control embarrassment to be the bank's pitchman on TV. Time to question Capital One's decision to continue to employ him.

The fact is Baldwin's career is not in any danger. Baldwin is completely safe. And that's wrong.