Alec Baldwin, writing at the Huffington Post, offers a withering assessment of Sen. Norm Coleman, while lavishing praise on challenger Al Franken:

Coleman becoming a US Senator from that great state was a travesty. Now the time has come to correct that mistake. Coleman, who makes Mitt Romney look like a visionary, is so far from the best that state has to offer, it is unbelievable to imagine that he is even in the running for reelection. An uninformed and weak-willed apologist for this awful administration is being challenged by one of the best progressive minds of his generation.

The "30 Rock" star’s didn’t finish there:

Coleman is a pathetic hack who will do as little as possible in a US Senate office other than cover his own ass and protect his power. Meanwhile, Al Franken is everything you could hope for in a candidate to represent your state in the world’s most august deliberative body. Smart, caring, brave. That’s the choice. Mitt Romney light. Or a return to someone special in the US Senate from the great state of Minnesota.

But does this type of showbiz endorsement help Franken? Or merely help solidify the perception that Republicans have tried to paint of him as an out-of-touch-celebrity interloper?

(H/T: Polinaut)