This is a tough one.
It wouldn’t be, if these grown men, who were blessed with healthy children, didn’t engage in such extraordinarily despicable behavior.
So does the award go to dog collar daddy, these self-centered pathetic patriarchs, or this furious father, who could use some serious anger management counseling?
They are all quite deserving of the bad dad award, in my opinion, and if I hadn’t heard the latest from the poster boy of pompous pops, I’d gladly watch them duke it out for the title.
But, oops, he did it again!
Alec Baldwin simply refuses to learn from his mistakes.
Two years ago the actor made headlines when he called his then 11-year-old daughter, Ireland, a “rude little pig.” That was before he told the influential tween, who had already lived through her parent’s highly acrimonious divorce, that she didn’t “have the brains or the decency of a human being.”
After berating his own flesh and blood, Baldwin had his rep issue a statement to the press that skewered his ex-wife Kim Basinger, saying that Ireland’s famous mom was behind his vicious verbal attack, and that the actress was “pathologically incapable of keeping her mouth shut.”
Funny, I don’t remember hearing Basinger call her kid a snarky swine, but I digress.
Ironically, it now appears that Baldwin is the one who is incapable of keeping his trap shut.
Last week, the 51-year-old actor showed the world what a stellar father (cough, wheeze) he is during an appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”
During the televised interview, Baldwin cheerfully announced that he would willingly toss his now 13-year-old daughter into a volcano.
“[Ireland] is 13 and I see now why, in these films, whenever they represent a Mayan culture, or any tribal culture, or a Hawaiian culture, they always throw a teenage girl into the volcano as a sacrifice,” Baldwin babbled to Letterman, before adding, “I kind of understand why.”
The actor then went on to admit that he wasn’t a big fan of teenage girls.
“They’re very opinionated,” quipped the “30 Rock” star.
Hmmm… wonder where she gets that?
Pot, this is kettle, you’re black.
Baldwin also shared with Letterman that he is struggling to relate to his teen daughter.
“Everyone always tells me, ‘Oh it’s their hormones,’ and I don’t really care,” bemoaned Baldwin. “They should be sent to some kind of Chinese re-education camp in the mountains for five years.”
The wise-cracking actor, then tried to make amends for his thoughtless remarks by saying that he actually likes being a father. (Yeah, right.)
“I’d love to have more kids,” Baldwin told Letterman. “I’m thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point, or a Russian one. I don’t care, I’m 51.”
Fifty-one going on 14.
Baldwin’s reoccurring craziness—-namely his culturally insensitive remarks—-has landed him in hot water with the Filipino government, but that’s fodder for another blog.
The focus for this post is Baldwin’s repeated degradation of his innocent child, who has to constantly put up with her father’s egotistical public rants.
Alec Baldwin… worst father of the year… yea or nay?
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