I would like to address the comments I made this past week. 
 
 I did not intend to hurt or offend anyone with my choice of words, but clearly I have – and for that I am deeply sorry. Words are important. I understand that, and will choose mine with great care going forward. What I said and did this week, as I was trying to protect my family, was offensive and unacceptable. Behavior like this undermines hard-fought rights that I vigorously support. I understand “Up Late” will be taken off the schedule for tonight and next week. 
 
 I want to apologize to my loyal fans and to my colleagues at msnbc – both for my actions and for distracting from their good work. Again, please accept my apology. 

 Just because Alec Baldwin isn't on TV 24/7, it doesn't mean someone isn't always watching. 
 
 MSNBC has at least temporarily yanked the actor's talk show, Up Late With Alec Baldwin, from its schedule following the release of a video in which he directed an anti-gay slur at a paparazzo who was snapping pictures of Baldwin's family. 
 
 Baldwin immediately took to Twitter to defend against TMZ's claim that he used the word "f-g," insisting he actually said "fathead." 
 
 He then apologized today after, according to Baldwin, GLAAD informed him that "c--ksucking" (which he audibly did say) was also an anti-gay epithet. The organization's VP of communications called him out for his "pattern of anti-gay slurs," referring also to tweeted remarks Baldwin made back in June when he got angry at a reporter who wrote up what turned out to be an erroneous story about his wife. 
 
 "I would like to address the comments I made this past week," Baldwin began in a statement posted tonight to MSNBC.com. (E! Online is also a member of the NBCUniversal family.) 

 Alec Baldwin Chases Down Photog 'C**ksucking F*g!' [Video] 
 
 Alec Baldwin -- Chases Down Photog -- 'C**ksucking F*g!' 
 
 EXCLUSIVE 
 
 is a sore winner ... chasing down and threatening a photographer outside his Manhattan apartment ... just hours after a courtroom victory this morning in his stalker case ... and the whole thing was captured on video.The video shows Baldwin -- who was with his wife and baby -- taking off in angry pursuit after the pap (not ours) ... yelling, cursing and calling him a "c**ksucking f*g."But watch what sets him off ... the photog ventures VERY close to Baldwin's family.Alec has a bad habit of using language that's considered offensive to gays. A rep for GLAAD tells TMZ, "Mr. Baldwin can't lend his support for equality on paper, while degrading gay people in practice. It's clearly time he listens to the calls from so many LGBT people and allies to end this pattern of anti-gay slurs."
– Alec Baldwin had quite a week: Hours after his stalker was sentenced to jail Thursday (after a very eventful trial), Baldwin was caught on video chasing and yelling at a paparazzo outside his apartment. TMZ translated some of his comments as "c---sucking f--," which, if true, would be two gay slurs in a row. MSNBC responded by temporarily suspending his talk show yesterday, E! reports. Now Baldwin has apologized, though he insists he said "fathead" and not the worse alternative. "I did not intend to hurt or offend anyone with my choice of words, but clearly I have—and for that I am deeply sorry," Baldwin wrote on MSNBC.com last night. "Words are important. I understand that, and will choose mine with great care going forward." He was reportedly educated on one word during this incident: GLAAD apparently had to inform him that "c---sucking" is also an anti-gay epithet.