Alec Baldwin narration deception

Read here in his own words how Alec Baldwin was essentially conned into lending his voice for the narration of this movie (and how the film makers were not exactly quick to comply with his reasonable demands to remove same when Alec realized how sensationalistic the film was)...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/true-lies-filmmakers-go-_b_32771.html

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Recently, I was approached about lending my voice to a film enttiled "Running with Arnold," a documentary about the political ascension of Arnold Schwarzenegger. I read the script and agreed to do the narration. I went to a studio here in NY and recorded the text to picture, which I had not seen before.

When I recorded the tracks, I was somewhat dismayed by some of the images I saw.

I am certainly not a supporter of Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think he was unqualified for his curent job when he ran in the bogus recall election. I believe he is unqualified for that job today.

Schwarzenegger is not a leader. Like Bush, he is a front man for a group of powerful interests and he is reading from a script. The filmmakers hammer Schwarzenegger over his private behavior and his record as governor. But Schwarzenegger deserves to be treated fairly and the film's images of Nazi rallies were over the line.
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Given an opportunity to endorse an apparently unfair attack (filled with logical fallacies, by the sound of it) on a man that he doesn't exactly love, he takes the high road and passes. Now that's integrity!


It's a nice surprise to see how the prolific SNL host, character actor, and famous "Team America: World Police" puppet is also a very observant, articulate, sharp-witted political blogger:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/



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