Gothamist caught up with Alec Baldwin to get his side of the story on his departure from MSNBC: (I cleaned it up)
“Martin Bashir’s on the air, and he made his comment on the air! I dispute half the comment I made… if I called him ‘c***sucking maggot’ or a ‘c***sucking motherfucker’… ‘f***ot’ is not the word that came out of my mouth. That I know. But you’ve got the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy — Rich Ferraro and Andrew Sullivan — they’re out there, they’ve got you. Rich Ferraro, this is probably one of his greatest triumphs. They killed my show. And I have to take some responsibility for that myself.”
And regarding the report that Baldwin demanded a humidifier:
These stories with the Post, the way they work, they have to have some kernel of truth. So if I complained, as I did, I said to them… I didn’t ask for a humidifier, I asked for humidification. So we had a day where… my voice would crack, it was heavily air conditioned, I found it tough to talk.
I honestly don’t know if he’s joking or serious about “humidification.”