Alec Baldwin, 2010. (AP/Dan Steinberg) On behalf of the celebrity-political media-industrial complex, we would like to apologize. If you glimpsed a news Web site or cable news station last week, you may have encountered a fascinating bit of intel -- that Alec Baldwin was considering a run for Congress. We now know he's not, okay? But stay with us as we try to unravel a story that was too good to be true. It emerged with tantalizing detail: With a too-close-to-call race headed to recount, the famously liberal star's home district on Long Island was suddenly at risk of flipping to the Republicans . . . which meant Baldwin might finally have his chance to run for office as his district's Democratic savior in 2012. The story was all over the Web: USA Today, National Journal, Fox News, the New York Post, National Review. As well-known scholars of celebvocacy,
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