# What, no pitting for Alex or Jon? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 9, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680 "2011-12-09T23:44:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/21 "2011-12-10T00:52:52Z")
Alec Baldwin is a pompous ass. He may be exceptionally self-important, but he’s not important enough to me to rate any serious thought. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/22 "2011-12-10T01:00:14Z")
> [@OtisCampbellWasRight](#): > > Jon Corsine, or as he is known here in NJ, Jon Corslime. [Not really.](http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1SNNT_ENUS458&q=%22jon+corslime%22&oq=%22jon+corslime%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=36l399l0l552l5l3l0l1l0l1l156l297l0.2l2l0#hl=en&rlz=1G1SNNT_ENUS458&sa=X&ei=v67iToyrJJO4hAfCs-DnAQ&ved=0CCQQvgUoAA&q=%22jon+corslime%22&nfpr=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=2b2d5e6e7bf42c5c&biw=1138&bih=555) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/23 "2011-12-10T01:01:26Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I like how the OP is not necessarily pitting those two people, but actually directing his ire at those who didn’t call them out. Aye, this is what I noticed: he’s upset enough about people not being upset enough to Pit Baldwin and Corsine to pit those people, but he’s not upset with Baldwin or Corsine enough to pit them himself. Does that mean he just pitted himself? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/24 "2011-12-10T01:25:52Z")
Corzine may have done something wrong. His firm cost its investors zillions. Shame on his 1 percenter firm. Be nice to see some prosecutions of the Wall Streeters doing this. I won’t hold my breath. Baldwin behaves as an ass. So what? If I have to declaim every ass in the country personally I won’t have any time to do independent assing. As for the OP: up his ass with a Herman Cain electric fence. Personally I think the OP is a sock puppet for Newt Gingrich. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/25 "2011-12-10T01:55:18Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > So now there’s some requirement to pit every asshole that males the news? Bleh. The Pit has gone steadily downhill ever since Cuntgate. It used to be a highly entertaining forum, with verbal bloodletting of offending posters, heated arguments with some substance, and the odd rant on various topics. Now it’s pretty much MPSIMS with more cursing, or lame ass “I’m too lazy to actually post a rant, so everyone else mock this topic” drivel like this thread. > > If you’re going to Pit someone or something, then fucking do it. Stop this annoying tendency to just throw shit at the wall and hope someone else actually posts some content worth reading or printing to wipe my ass with. Or maybe just close the goddamn Pit, because it isn’t worth a pimple on a gnat’s ass anymore. I think you meant to say the Pit was better during the time you ran off all butthurt, because now it stays cluttered up with this perpetual whiny bullshit rant in every thead you deem insufficent. It’s even less entertaining that post rating, which was not entertaining at all. Let. It. Go. Or at least STFU about it, its been years. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/26 "2011-12-10T02:12:20Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > I think you meant to say the Pit was better during the time you ran off all butthurt, because now it stays cluttered up with this perpetual whiny bullshit rant in every thead you deem insufficent. It’s even less entertaining that post rating, which was not entertaining at all. > > Let. It. Go. Or at least STFU about it, its been years. Aren’t you the Aussie chick studying law? Thought I’d always been pleasant to you. Oh well. Maybe you’ll feel better now that you got that off your chest. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/27 "2011-12-10T02:31:28Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Aren’t you the Aussie chick studying law? Thought I’d always been pleasant to you. Oh well. Maybe you’ll feel better now that you got that off your chest. Ahem… Not four posts ago, you were bemoaning the disappearance of > [@](#): > > verbal bloodletting of offending posters, heated arguments with some substance, and the odd rant on various topics. Now it’s pretty much MPSIMS with more cursing, or lame ass “I’m too lazy to actually post a rant, so everyone else mock this topic” drivel I guess you might want to be careful what you wish for. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/28 "2011-12-10T02:44:08Z")
> [@OtisCampbellWasRight](#): > > The fact that no one has said a word about the recent activities of Alex Baldwin nor Jon Corzine is very, very telling here. Is it? What exactly does it tell us, if I may ask? And since we apparently all need to justify our silence, I’ll state that I’ve never heard of this Jon guy until this thread, not being a resident of New Jersey or, indeed, even remotely interested in politics in general. And while I’ve heard of Alec Baldwin and have even been vaguely aware of his recent struggles, I personally assign the troubles and behaviors of celebrities roughly the same importance as the shape and texture of the clouds. I cannot calculate how many of the concerns and worries in my life would have to evaporate away before I cared enough about what any Baldwin did to write a post about it. So there’s my answer. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/29 "2011-12-10T02:50:11Z")
A second reply to the OP: you misspelled the names of both people you’re outraged about, so it looks like you gave about as much of a shit as the people who you are supposedly Pitting. Beyond that, I’d say there was no other Pitting because these incidents confirm how most people already felt about Baldwin and Corzine. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/30 "2011-12-10T03:06:10Z")
I’m outraged to the brim! And I’m a librul. There. Put a fork in this one. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/31 "2011-12-10T03:16:02Z")
Whodafuck is Jon Corzine? Whodafuck cares what Alec Baldwin did? I mentioned it to my wife, and we both muttered, “What an asshole.” I’m sorry we didn’t rush to the SDMB to immediately denounce him and the entirety of Liberal politics. Mea Culpa. I suspect a right-wing forum is currently missing its Village Idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/32 "2011-12-10T03:20:06Z")
I’m taking this pitting over. We’re now pitting _OtisCambellWasRight_ for misspelling the subject of his pit. God damn you to heck, Otis. To heck. I spelled his name bad on purpose. Hurr hurr. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/33 "2011-12-10T03:23:49Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > Whodafuck is Jon Corzine? Former U.S. Senator, former Governor of New Jersey, former head of the unbelievably well-named failed hedge fund MF Global. He’s a sleaze, but I don’t think he crashed Google. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/34 "2011-12-10T03:31:51Z")
Oh shut the fuck up. That asshole you and your fellow Reps put in office to replace him is a stupid, boorish, crude jerk who routinely makes me cringe everytime he opens his loud mouth. Chris Christie has attacked teachers, screwed up educational funding, wasted money from the feds that should have been used to improve links with NYC and raised my damned property taxes personally by over a hundred bucks a month. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/35 "2011-12-10T03:45:49Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > Whodafuck is Jon Corzine? For that matter, whodafuck is Otis Cambell and what was he right about? Oy, another thread where some mook bitches about other folks not posting about some shit before he did. Not like anyone ever posted something like that before, izzit? ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/36 "2011-12-10T04:16:47Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > For that matter, whodafuck is Otis Cambell and what was he right about? Otis Campbell was the Mayberry town drunk from the _Andy Griffith Show_. That may or may not help explain where the OP is coming from. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/37 "2011-12-10T04:16:56Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > I suspect a right-wing forum is currently missing its Village Idiot. Well, Moe Howard ,might have been a village idiot, but he was the _smart one._ At (insert right wing board name here) the village idiot is the brains of the outfit. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/38 "2011-12-10T05:33:02Z")
Okay, my reactions. Somebody did start a pit thread about Alec Baldwin and Jon Corsine. In fact, I’m posting in it right now. Jon Corsine’s the Governor of New Jersey. I don’t live in New Jersey and I don’t pay much attention of New Jersey politics. Alec Baldwin, from everything I’ve heard about him, is an overbearing asshole. But he’s funny on TV. So I watch him on TV and avoid him everywhere else. People dying in India, Virginia, and Oklahoma is sad. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/39 "2011-12-10T07:17:53Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Former U.S. Senator, former Governor of New Jersey, former head of the unbelievably well-named failed hedge fund MF Global. He’s a sleaze, but I don’t think he crashed Google. Corzine is more than a [sleaze](http://technorati.com/business/article/jon-corzine-ex-mf-globals-ceo/). He should be in jail. Here’s hoping he goes, and not as a visitor on a field trip. What a slimy prick. As for Baldwin, wasn’t he the same Hollywood jackass who yelled on some late night talk show about going to DC and stoning Henry Hyde during the Clinton impeachment? He should have been tossed in jail for that. Even if it was just for a day or two, it might have taught him a lesson. However, I like him as an actor… so I’d prefer that he just keep his opinions to himself, and continue to act, make me laugh, and shut up about politics. I think all of Hollywood should keep their collective mouths shut. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680/40 "2011-12-10T08:04:56Z")
> [@OtisCampbellWasRight](#): > > You guys have inadvertantly made my point for me! Well done, you are to be commended for your consistancy. > > My work is done here. > > P.S. I could not care less how the Giant Tool spells his name. Alex is fine for me. Hmm, you have a problem and aren’t willing to do a lick of work to solve it and get all huffy because everybody else won’t solve it for you. Typical liberal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680.md?page=3)