No, we're not talking about the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) efforts to push radically conservative corporative legislation through state legislative bodies (such as ALEC re climate change) but Alec Baldwin. Perhaps sparked by global warming denier Jim Inhofe's recent appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show, Baldwin launched a series of tweets attacking Inhofe:
More generally, Baldwin's perspective re the impact of the RWSM on his twitter feed:
For whatever reason, I never cease to be amazedby the distortions of the right wing trash that keeps stopping by here.
Baldwin's emails are creating a form of backlash on twitter and elsewhere.
One commentator (Jason Shenkel) specifically complained about Baldwin's use of the term "whore":
Your comment is offensive to sex workers. Sex workers do not SELL US OUT the way Inhofe does
Not all agreed with Shenkel's perspective.
On Twitter, one respondant asked whether Limbaugh was embarassed by his nopology over Fluke (the days and days of ranting about Sandra Fluke) after Baldwin's tweeted that Inhofe was an "oil whore". Baldwin's response to that:
Fluke isn't a slut and Inhofe is an Oil Whore. Y'see?
James Inhofe's spokesperson has responded with anger to Baldwin's comments.
"These kind of outrageous statements made recently on Twitter by Robert Kennedy Jr. and Alec Baldwin stand in stark contrast to the civil debate Sen. Inhofe had with Rachel Maddow last week,”
[NOTE: Senator Inhofe's team has commented, it seems, on the tone -- but not substance -- of Alec's twitter feed.]
In that interview, Maddow sought to deal directly with Inhofe while remaining utterly civil in the face of Inhofe's misrepresentation and deceptions. Note that, in that interview, Senator Inhofe essentially stated that the reason he turned to an anti-science stance was economic -- that he was listening to climate scientists until he became (falsely) convinced that mitigating climate change would cost too much.
Also, to be clear, Senator Inhofe has been consistent in calling the vast majority of the global scientific community as engaged in a (basically criminal) conspiracy to foist a "hoax" on humanity. While Inhofe rejects the concept that humanity is driving climate change (often even asserting that there isn't Global Warming), humanity's top scientific insitutions and scientific societies -- with the partial exception of the obviously unbiased American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) -- are unanimous in the opinion that there is global warming and that humanity is a major driving factor in that warming. Hmmm ... who to trust, Senator James Inhofe or the Royal Academy of Sciences and the National Academies of Science and ...
A question to ponder:
Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers
In his interview with Maddow, Inhofe spoke of his list of 1000s of scientists ... on this misdirection and truthiness, see (for example):
Relevant material re Inhofe's denial strategy (for example):
RE Twitter