Posted on 09/05/2018 3:06:46 PM PDT by Simon Green
Former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) is suing actor and director Sacha Baron Cohen, alleging that he defamed Moore and caused emotional stress to the former judge and his wife by tricking them into appearing on his Showtime program "Who is America?"
In a court filing Wednesday, Moore and his wife, Kayla Moore, allege that Cohen's use of a disguise and false pretenses to lure them to Washington, D.C., for a supposed awards ceremony and interview constituted fraud.
Cohen went on to "defame" Moore by using a device "supposedly invented by the Israeli Army to detect pedophiles" to label Moore as such on the program.
Moore lost the Senate election in December after several women alleged he had pursued romantic and sexual relationships with them when they were teenagers and Moore was in his 30s, including one who said she was underage at the time. Others accused Moore of sexual misconduct, including assault.
A release form signed by Moore for his appearance on the program, the complaint continues, was invalid due to the supposedly fraudulent conditions under which it was signed.
Moore's lawyers argue that the judge's family has "been the subject of widespread ridicule and humiliation" as a result of Cohen's actions, which they say includes "severe emotional distress and pain and financial damage."
"Who is America?" debuted earlier this year on Showtime, and many of the segments mocked Republicans and conservatives. Among the segments were interviews with prominent conservatives appearing to advocate for extreme gun safety positions, such as arming grade-school children and teaching kindergartners to disarm terrorists and active shooters.
The show ended its first highly anticipated season without airing an interview with 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, which Palin had admitted to giving and had called "bizarre, really embarrassing, [and] humiliating.”
Should have sued him in Great Britain.
I’m no fan of Cohen but Moore has no chance.
Moore was an idiot for not having the event and lowlife Cohen filth checked out ahead of time, by his staff.
Yeah, sue a satirist who nailed you! That’s the ticket!
Terrible candidate, went to a football game on the weekend instead of campaigning.
I remember that!
[Terrible candidate, went to a football game on the weekend instead of campaigning.]
And thus proving not only was he a poor candidate but not too bright!
His 15 minutes has long been used up!
He needs to back to ambulance chasing!
Any person who is so gullible as to appear on stage and not know what he is getting into is not qualified for a job in the public sphere.
Anyone with a public job and that naive could have only got there by affirmative action, not by being qualified.
[Terrible candidate, went to a football game on the weekend instead of campaigning.]
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It’s one thing to lack charisma, and quite another to compound it with laziness.
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And he further compounded it with STUPIDITY. Right before the election he said on camera “We’ll, if you think I dated teen girls, don’t vote for me”. The media gleefully broadcast that widely.
I heard that Sacha Baron Cohen has SET A RECORD for being sued in the course of film production.
More than ANY other artist in history.
[And he further compounded it with STUPIDITY. Right before the election he said on camera “We’ll, if you think I dated teen girls, don’t vote for me”. The media gleefully broadcast that widely.]
It’s your own fault if you’re dumb enough to get fooled by this clown.
Even with the scandal he still would have won if he hadn’t mentioned how great “family life” was back in slavery times,. Black turnout wasn’t so high because of what did or didn’t happen to some White girl in the 70’s. We should have listened to President Trump on this one, he knew Moore was a fool.
Romney didn't have all the F***ing judges in the Alabama judiciary taking out full page adds in all of the significant Alabama newspapers telling people to vote for the Democrat.
Despite the backstabbing, he still managed to pull off over a million votes, and he did almost as well as the very next down ballot Republican running for state wide office.
If Richard Shelby and the national party had not deliberately stabbed Moore in the back, he would have won that race. But they did, and the Washington spending party establishment defeated another reformer, just as they defeated Chris McDaniel in Mississippi, and other reform candidates elsewhere.
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