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Who Needs A Spanking?

By Evil Beet Gossip • on May 20, 2009

Alec Baldwin’s mouth gets him in a lot of trouble. No, he didn’t verbally abuse his rude, thoughtless little pig of a daughter this time. However, he did offend a Philippine Senator.

It all started when Alec appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman. When asked if he’d like to have more children he gave an offhand reply in which he indicated that he’d like to find a Filipino mail-order bride.

That comment incensed Senator Ramon Revilla who said Baldwin’s joke was “insensitive and uncalled for.” Though I can understand the dude being offended, and feeling that his culture was offended, he got a little crazy with the rage. Using a regional idiom that indicated that the senator would personally beat Baldwin, Revilla said “Let him try to come here in the Philippines and he’ll see mayhem.”

Today on Huffington Post, Alec posted a mea culpa which will hopefully protect him from cane-wielding senators.

I’d like to offer an apology and a clarification to remarks I made recently.

While on the David Letterman program, I joked that I might need a “mail-order bride” to achieve the goal of having more children in my life. I believe that most people understood that this was a joke and took it as such. (A dated reference, no doubt, and another sign of my advancing age.) However, I do apologize to anyone who took offense. The comments of some Philippine government officials come as no surprise to me, either. Even the one by a former action film star-turned-Senator who beckoned me to come to the Philippines so he could “beat” me over my comment.

Such anger and frustration about the issue of sex trafficking is understandable. The Philippines has suffered significant problems with the issue of sex trafficking and I would like to turn your attention to the work of an organization called Love146 that my brother Stephen educated me about. Visit their website at www.love146.org and learn of the important work that is being done, in various regions of the world, by Rob Morris and his co-founders and staff.

I had met with Rob in New York, some months before the Letterman appearance, in the hopes of helping him raise money for this group. Again, I apologize for the perceived insensitivity of that remark and ask you to visit the Love146 site.

You can read his whole blog here as this excerpt is part of a larger apology. Turns out Baldwin ticked off the entire U.S. automaker industry as well. But that’s another story.