in case you haven't, I'm posting it 'cause it's just too darned... somethin':
'Ali G' Comedian Risks Riot at U.S. Rodeo
13/01/2005 6:07:56 PM
LONDON (Reuters) - British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen escaped a
near-riot at an American rodeo while filming his satirical "Da Ali G
Show."
According to a report in the Roanoke (Virginia) Times, a man who was
introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan -- in reality a Cohen
character named Borat -- appeared at the rodeo over the weekend after
organizers agreed to have him sing the national anthem.
After telling the crowd he supported America's war on terrorism, he
said, "I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the
lizards ... And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman
and child in Iraq." He then sang a garbled version of "The
Star-Spangled Banner."
The Roanoke Times reported that the crowd turned "downright nasty."
One observer said "If he had been out there a minute longer, I think
somebody would have shot him."
Cohen and his film crew were escorted out of the Salem Civic Center
and told to leave the premises.
"Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot,"
rodeo producer Bobby Rowe told the paper. "They loaded up the van and
they screeched out of there."
It is not the first time Cohen has wooed controversy with his show,
which airs on Channel 4 in the UK and on HBO in the United States. In
one episode last year, Borat sang an anti-Semitic song called "Throw
the Jew Down the Well" at a U.S. country music bar, prompting protests
from the U.S-based Anti-Defamation League.
Producers of the Ali G show, Talkback Thames, were unavailable for comment.'
So... did the Jew go too far? I say nyes.
'Ali G' Comedian Risks Riot at U.S. Rodeo
13/01/2005 6:07:56 PM
LONDON (Reuters) - British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen escaped a
near-riot at an American rodeo while filming his satirical "Da Ali G
Show."
According to a report in the Roanoke (Virginia) Times, a man who was
introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan -- in reality a Cohen
character named Borat -- appeared at the rodeo over the weekend after
organizers agreed to have him sing the national anthem.
After telling the crowd he supported America's war on terrorism, he
said, "I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the
lizards ... And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman
and child in Iraq." He then sang a garbled version of "The
Star-Spangled Banner."
The Roanoke Times reported that the crowd turned "downright nasty."
One observer said "If he had been out there a minute longer, I think
somebody would have shot him."
Cohen and his film crew were escorted out of the Salem Civic Center
and told to leave the premises.
"Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot,"
rodeo producer Bobby Rowe told the paper. "They loaded up the van and
they screeched out of there."
It is not the first time Cohen has wooed controversy with his show,
which airs on Channel 4 in the UK and on HBO in the United States. In
one episode last year, Borat sang an anti-Semitic song called "Throw
the Jew Down the Well" at a U.S. country music bar, prompting protests
from the U.S-based Anti-Defamation League.
Producers of the Ali G show, Talkback Thames, were unavailable for comment.'
So... did the Jew go too far? I say nyes.
