As you may have learned from the voicemail he left for his daughter, Alec Baldwin has mad yelling skills. So count him as the ringleader of Hamptons residents calling for the ouster of the Independent Newspaper Group editor Rick Murphy. Baldwin has been blogging about his feelings, but now he's kicked it up a notch: He's supporting public forums on the matter. Public! Forums!

Along with 60 other East End residents who held a town hall meeting over the weekend, Baldwin wants publisher Jerry Della Femina to get rid of the man behind that racist Barack Obama column, written by "Yo Mama Bin Barack," in the Hamptons Independent.

But he won't side with those who've been calling for a boycott of the newspaper, since that would hurt the families of innocent employees, when it's only Murphy who deserves punishment.

Funny, then, that Baldwin didn't mind hurting the TV-watching families of innocent Americans when he sided with the Writers Guild. Snap!