Alec Baldwin and pigs

I'm sure that practically everyone has heard that actor Alec Baldwin is taking flak for calling his 11 year old kid a pig by now for missing a scheduled phone call from him. If you haven't, this account is as good as any.

Alec Baldwin is a good actor and a goofy person (he publicly announced he would move to France if Bush won, but don't feel bad if you don't remember him saying that, neither did he), and sure, what he said sounds bad, but what parent hasn't lost it with their kid?

Let me tell you. It's the parent whose kid is running wild in the grocery store, the restaurant, the airplane, etc. forcing nearby adults to try and remember whether the state they're in has a mandatory death penalty for killing a child.

Kids don't misbehave because they don't know right from wrong. They do it because bad behavior tends to be much more fun than good behavior, and if a kid knows he has an idiot parent who isn't going to call a spade a spade when it comes to right and wrong (and they do know, regardless of their age), he's going to do what's most fun every time.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't take a phone call from Alec Baldwin either, but I'm not his 11 year old daughter. This overreaction by the media to a mostly normal response is just too much.