Reports of Alec Baldwin's goodbye to public life have been greatly exaggerated. The former "30 Rock" star, 56, began his day by engaging in a bitter Twitter fight with a former aide to Mitt Romney.

Baldwin, responding to a perceived slight from the 2012 presidential candidate's former "body man," or personal assistant, Garrett Jackson, unleashed a string of angry replies, two of them with homophobic overtones.

And then, just as quickly, he deleted it all. Jackson, though, had been manually retweeting Baldwin's comments, along with his own, which appear below in the order they were published. Neither man would comment to ABC News.

Need to do a film on how you and Hollywood distort our lives RT @ABFalecbaldwin:ABOVE ALL ELSE shows how oil, and keystone destroy our lives

- Garrett Jackson (@dgjackson) April 9, 2014

Not as bad as the paparazzi feels when you hit em! RT @ABFalecbaldwin: @dgjackson Losing that election still hurts like hell, dun'it?

- Garrett Jackson (@dgjackson) April 9, 2014

@ABFalecbaldwin in all seriousness, you pack a mean punch. I've seen videos. Mix your homophobic rants in and you are brutal. #msnbc - Garrett Jackson (@dgjackson) April 9, 2014

Actually my hardest job yet-revitalizing your career @ABFalecbaldwin What lost cause you working on now Maybe a Newt Gingrich fashion line? - Garrett Jackson (@dgjackson) April 9, 2014

Come on! Being a homophob has gotten you in enough trouble@ABFalecbaldwin You're on your knees in that photo. What's up with that, Garrett? - Garrett Jackson (@dgjackson) April 9, 2014

Ha! While I am down there I will pick up the pieces of your failed show @ABFalecbaldwin While you're on your knees, you can polish my Emmys. - Garrett Jackson (@dgjackson) April 9, 2014

I foresee an angry voicemail coming in my inbox from @ABFalecbaldwin. He's a pro at them. - Garrett Jackson (@dgjackson) April 9, 2014

Glad @ABFalecbaldwin agent finally got to him to tell him to stop. Noticed he has deleted the on the knees tweet. - Garrett Jackson (@dgjackson) April 9, 2014

@ABFalecbaldwin just got an angry voicemail from his publicist. He's deleted all his tweets he sent to me. Guy can't help himself.

- Garrett Jackson (@dgjackson) April 9, 2014