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"Lemon, Could you fire that moron Cafferty please..."

Before I sign off for the day, must share this with whomever may be wandering by in the night...

Alec Baldwin's rebuke to Jack Cafferty.

This is what I love about Alec Baldwin. He says...whatever the hell comes to mind...

This is Alec B's latest in HuffPo, on the Jump. Entirely self explanatory and ABSOLUTELY worth reading. A hoot...

When I think of it, I'll go fishing for a response from Jack tomorrow...

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A fine Alec Baldwin interview by Michael Fleming in the current Playboy; some of the outtakes were out a couple weeks ago (the business about "Today," TMZ, and so on.)

But the full interview closes with this interesting aside, which was all news to me:

PLAYBOY: Will you run for office?
BALDWIN: I’ll put it this way. The desire is there; that’s one component. The other component is opportunity. A law firm in a liberal Democratic bastion in Ohio state politics sent me a binder with a cover letter that read, “Mr. Baldwin, here’s who we represent, the kinds of cases we handle, our credentials in Ohio state politics. We want you to move to Ohio and run for governor. We will launch your career.”

PLAYBOY: Could you live in Ohio?
BALDWIN: I have sometimes thought I could move to New Jersey or Connecticut and run. I’d love to run against Joe Lieberman. I have no use for him. But it’s all fantasy. I’m a carry-me-out-in-a-box New Yorker. Here, anything can happen. Who thought Eliot Spitzer would go down the way he did? Senator Hillary Clinton left to serve as secretary of state. Two of the biggest forces gone. Maybe Andrew Cuomo will run for one of their old seats. How much longer will Chuck Schumer stay as senator? After 2013 Bloomberg will be gone. What happens then? Do I run for Congress on Long Island? What’s Tim Bishop going to do? He represents my district. People get sick, die. They’re offered lucrative deals and want to cash in and make money for their retirement. People misstep. Unfortunately, an opportunity for me may mean bad things for someone else. I don’t wish that.

PLAYBOY: How does all this factor into your career?
BALDWIN: I’m done in 2012. In March 2012 I’ll wake up and say, “What am I going to do now? Am I done?” I think I will be done. I may finish a play or something, but I’m retiring at the wrap party.

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Alec Baldwin's interview with Playboy is out. (REALLY out.) He has much to say - off "30 Rock" after 2012; never go back on "Today"; hates the celebrity mag shows.

And much more. (TVtattle.com has the pull quotes.)

Here's what he says about shows like...well, you can guess their names. More on the jump.

“I would be so happy if those shows went off the air. It is a huge problem in our business—this microcosmic analysis and elevation of people who are just witless and talentless, or people with talent, like Lindsay Lohan, who struggle. Who gives a shit about their personal trivialities? Its hurts the business.”

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