Posted on 10/01/2006 4:52:53 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX OCT 01, 2006 19:42:01 ET XXXXX
FOX MOVIE: 'BUSH MAY DRINK BLOOD OF EVERY MAN, WOMAN, CHILD IN IRAQ'
All systems go for controversy, and the release of FOX fuss film 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' -- a film which features a comic announcing to an outraged Virginia rodeo: 'May George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq!'
VARIETY calls the film, set for wide release November 3rd, "uproariously funny."
Borat Sagdiyev, Kazakhstan's leading journalist from the State run TV network, travels from his home in Kazakhstan to the U.S. to make a documentary. On his cross-country road-trip, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences.
"'Borat' should make abundant B.O. benefit for FOX," predicts the trade.
NEWSCORPFOX chairman Rupert Murdoch is said to be 100% supportive of the mockumentary, a top source tells the DRUDGE REPORT.
But it is a scene filmed last winter in Virginia, at a rodeo in Roanoke, that is raising spurs.
Comic Sacha Cohen, impersonating a Middle Eastern man in an American flag shirt and a cowboy hat, took to the stage to sing the national anthem at the Salem Civic Center.
Introduced as Borat Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan, he was said to be an immigrant touring America. A film crew was with him, doing some sort of documentary. And he wanted to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to show his appreciation, the announcer told the crowd.
"I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards!" he told the audience.
An uneasy murmur ran through the crowd, unaware it was a set up.
"And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq!" he continued.
Then the man took off his hat and sang a butchered version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that ended with the words "your home in the grave," The ROANOKE TIMES reported.
By then, a restless crowd had turned downright nasty.
"If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him," said one witness. "People were booing him, flipping him off."
"It's a wonder one of these cowboys didn't go out there and rope him up."
Last week outside of the White House, Secret Service agents turned away Cohen, in character as the boorish, anti-Semitic journalist, when he tried to invite "Premier George Walter Bush" to a screening of the upcoming film.
Cohen's "Borat" comedy routine has drawn legal threats from the Kazakh government, which keeps a tight lid on criticism in its news media.
Developing...
In this case? Yes.
George Bernard Shaw put it better than I could:
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
So aren't a fan. Cool.
Personally, I can't stand Jay Leno.
Different strokes, baby.
George Bernard Shaw put it better than I could:
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Again, this is just sick. I don't know where your moral compass is, but I suggest you go look for it.
Sorry if I am breaking any forum rules here, but I am just about to start saying things that I am sure break forum rules.
Borat is a hilarious character that Mr. Cohen does, I plan on seeing the film. Drudge has nothing to talk about on his show tonite, so he will flog a non story and gin up controversy where thre isn't any.
sick perversion...unconscionable
I won't tell if you don't.
Duth he thing that thong in a maloderous voice?
I am surprised that Drudge hasn't used the siren yet.
Such restraint.
Outrageousness has in it the word "outrage". The fact that some people take offense at these types of jokes just makes the joke that much funnier to people who "get it".
Cohen (the actor) isn't making fun of America. Neither is Borat (the character). Borat is making fun of Borat.
Borat is the stereotype of what Kazahkistan is afraid we believe Kazahks are like. The fact that people got "outraged" at his act (bumbling ignorant idiot), makes the joke just that much funnier.
And, yes, it is OK to laugh at one's self. I think the Muslims have shown what happens to a people that can't laugh at anything that touches them.
The man has ca-hones (pun intended) to wear that thing!!!
From what little I have seen and heard of this film it appears to make arabs look like backward idiots, and not superior..heck I think the opening scene of the movie is this borat guy french kissing passionately a woman, the woman is his sister...
it also sounds like he makes such stupid comments about jews that his culture looks asinine and silly...as it is..
A different trailer, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ41j3XK8B4
Part of the issue, as I always maintain, is that for a spoof or satire to be effective, it must be somehow distinguishable from reality...liberals are getting more difficult to parody with each passing day, due to their outlandish behavior!
He's better know as his character Ali G.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen
Before offending cowboys and Americans in general he's most recently been in trouble with the entire country of Kazakhstan:
Government Officials, Fed Up With Comic's Foreign Newsman Character, Say They'll Sue
"Borat Sagdiyev," a faux Kazakh TV personality he plays, who gleefully describes his countrymen as drunken sexual deviants.
"In the U.S. and A. they treat horses like we in Kazakhstan treat our women," he says in one episode. "They feed them two times a day. They have them sleep on straw in a small box. And for entertainment, they make them jump over fences while being whipped."
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=1315240
He's definately out there and not exactly my cup of tea either but he's at least an equal opportunity offender.
In other words, "so what" if this offends our troops, right?
I'd like to say welcome to FR, but I just can't.
Reminds me of when Drudge ginned up mock indignation over the Emmy's spoofing a plane crash and the show Lost when there was the Comair crash.
Matt has nothing for tonight's show.
I fail to see how this smears Bush. Apparently you don't see it either. It seems to smear people who are small minded much more. Also this character seems to be against a lot of traditionally liberal groups yet liberals give it a pass because of a reference they think makes Bush look bad. Must be horrible to have that Bush derangement syndrome which I never had even in my most hard core Demonrat days.
That trailer was mighty funny. Kind of a arabic Latka Gravis only a lot more outgoing.
He's an odd one, is our boy Sacha.
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