I know, and that's what kinda put me off. It wasn't Borat himself that I found unsettling...he was absolutely hilarious. It was the tolerance for just about anything that upset me. Everyone is so afraid of offending someone or being labeled a racist or xenophobe that they'll kindly excuse themselves when someone brings a bag of shit to the table instead of telling him to get the fuck out. But then again, uber Christians are strange. Case in point, he brings a bag of shit to the table and they all just get uncomfortable, but when he brings a sleazy, fat, black woman home they go apeshit crazy and throw him out.
I'm still curious whether they were upset more because she was a supposed prostitute or because she was black. Probably the latter.
I mean, the entire film is an expose' on the ridiculous PC environment in the states today...it's like an experiment in sociology and psychology. But I think the guy at the news station actually lost his job because of Borat's antics. This is where it crosses the line. It's no longer funny when real people get hurt while you're "taking the piss", as you would say.
