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Alec Baldwin gets paid millions of dollars to be photographed having sex with his wife, Kim Basinger; he is, after all, a movie star, an artist who works in film. (See, for example, their movie The Getaway.) But he is also a man of substance, of strongly held political convictions, as the ever- alert Media Research Center has documented.

“I believe that the people who run the Republican Party in this country are really rotten, nasty, horrible human beings,” Baldwin told US magazine last month. Newt Gingrich, he went on, is “evil.” And so when Alec Baldwin came to Washington earlier this month, is it any wonder that he should have been received warmly by . . . Newt Gingrich?

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