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Alec Baldwin recently took the time to send a personal letter to Hillary Clinton and her fellow senators, imploring them to vote no on a proposed $10 billion farm subsidies bill before that could potentially turn already overweight children into a generation of cream-cheese-and-donut gobbling gluttons with an upper-range life expectancy of 14. From the NY Daily News:

"As you are well aware, the epidemic of childhood obesity is worsening day by day, leading to higher risks of diabetes, heart disease and several forms of cancer," the actor wrote Monday in a personal letter to Clinton and each of her fellow senators. "I know that you share my concern about this crucial issue."

"As a parent," Baldwin continued, "I see firsthand the challenges of keeping children focused on healthful foods. These challenges are made all the more difficult by federal policies that keep high-cholesterol, high-sugar foods all too plentiful in schools...

"There has never been a more urgent time to take action."

By positioning himself as a concerned parent, Baldwin might as well have shaved a giant target into his thicket of torso hair: Few of us will ever forget the recorded tirade in which he accused his preteen daughter of being a "rude, thoughtless little pig"—a particularly unfortunate choice of pejorative given the issues at hand. Still, to diminish in any way Baldwin's sincere efforts on behalf of America's overgrowing kids simply because of a few misplaced sentiments spoken in the heat of the straight-to-voicemail moment seems to us counterproductive. To silence his opponents, might we humbly suggest Baldwin revisit the cast of inner-city tenement dwellers he introduced so brilliantly on a recent 30 Rock, allowing Tracy Jordan's warring parents and the irascible neighbor Mrs. Rodriguez to describe for themselves on the floor of the U.S. Senate the dangers of bringing fatty and sugary foods into the nation's school cafeterias.