In an appearance on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" show Friday, Baldwin made his remarks in response to a question from O'Brien regarding the approval of articles of impeachment against Clinton, who faces an impeachment vote later this week.

Baldwin prefaced his remarks by stating that he'd recently returned from a trip to Africa and said "I am thinking to myself in other countries they are laughing at us twenty four hours a day and I'm thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death," said Baldwin, according to a transcript of the show by the Media Research Center, a Washington, D.C. media watchdog group.

Video of the program showed that, as he continued, Baldwin began shouting at O'Brien and the studio audience, saying "We would stone him to death! Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No shut up! I'm not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families," according to the transcript by MRC, the parent organization of CNS.

Neither Baldwin nor his staff were available to comment on the actor's remarks, leaving Baldwin's outburst open to interpretation.

Whether Baldwin's remarks were made in jest or were rooted in belief is not known at this time, but MRC Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker put the comments into a political context.

"Now, in your mind substitute the name Al Gore or Hillary Clinton for Henry Hyde and the name of a conservative for Baldwin. What kind of reaction would the media establishment be expressing?"