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Sacha Baron Cohen Gets Beaten At His Own Game

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Georgia lawmaker screams N-word, exposes himself to Sacha Baron Cohen

Jason Spencer, a Republican state lawmaker in Georgia, screams the N-word, exposes himself, and mocks Asian tourists during a segment that aired on Sunday as part of Sacha Baron Cohen‘s Who is America? series on Showtime.

In the video, Cohen pretends to be “Col. Erran Morad,” a former officer in Mossad. Cohen convinced Spencer to be part of an anti-terrorism “training video.”

Spencer partakes in a number of racist and homophobic acts in the video.

Early on, he listens to Cohen say they can “spot the difference” between a woman in a Burka and a “terrorist in a Burka” by using a selfie stick and taking pictures underneath the burka. In 2016, Spencer introduced a bill that would make it illegal for women to wear burkas, hijabs, or niqabs in public.

When Cohen says to “pretend like a Chinese tourist,” Spencer takes the selfie stick and begins rattling off a line of nonsensical racist words in a mocking Asian accent in between real words like “sushi,” “konichiwa,” “red dragon,” and city names like Beijing and Hong Kong.

Later, Cohen says he can teach the Georgia lawmaker how to stop someone from a “kidnapping by ISIS” by shouting the N-word, which he does loudly.

Toward the end of the video, Cohen convinces Spencer to take off his pants and shout “America” while pushing his buttocks into someone.

“I’ll touch you, I’ll make you a homosexual!” Spencer says, running with his pants down. “You drop that gun right now. USA! USA!”



Last week Spencer, like others before him, admitted he had been tricked by Cohen and said he was told the video was “intended to be an educational aid to train elected officials who may be targeted by terrorists.”

“They exploited my state of mind for profit and notoriety,” he said in a statement posted online by New York Times writer Sopan Deb. “This media company’s deceptive and fraudulent behavior is exactly why President Donald Trump was elected.”

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) said on Monday that Spencer’s remarks on the show were “appalling and offensive.”

“The actions and language used by Jason Spencer are appalling and offensive. There is no excuse for this type of behavior, ever, and I am saddened and disgusted by it,” he wrote on Twitter.
Normally it's Sacha Baron Cohen's character who's the most ridiculously exaggerated stereotype in the room, not whoever he's conned into appearing on camera with him.
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Beaten at his own game? More like wildly overperforms his own game.
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Wrong Cohen. Never mind.
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U.P. Cinnabar wrote: 2018-07-23 04:33pmWhy should anyone care if a man who beats on women has any game at all?
Baron Cohen, or Spencer?
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About 90% of Sacha Baron Cohen's routine is being a ridiculous caricature while supposedly "serious" people drop their filter and end up doing and saying things 100 times stupider than his parody. Have you ever seen Borat?

What happened is literally the opposite of what the thread title is claiming. Spencer's thing is Cohen succeeding beyond his wildest dreams.
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Civil War Man wrote: 2018-07-23 05:35pmAbout 90% of Sacha Baron Cohen's routine is being a ridiculous caricature while supposedly "serious" people drop their filter and end up doing and saying things 100 times stupider than his parody. Have you ever seen Borat?

What happened is literally the opposite of what the thread title is claiming. Spencer's thing is Cohen succeeding beyond his wildest dreams.
No, but I have seen Da Ali G Show, which was broadly similar except very few if any of his guests were bigger twats than the character he was playing.
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Cohen's whole shtick is being a character. He just happened to meet someone who was a slightly bigger character than him, and is completely unironic about it.

I suspect we'll see a lot of politicians getting embarrassed as clips and episodes get released...
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Zaune wrote: 2018-07-23 04:43pm
U.P. Cinnabar wrote: 2018-07-23 04:33pmWhy should anyone care if a man who beats on women has any game at all?
Baron Cohen, or Spencer?
I had the wrong dude entirely. The one I was thinking about has a similar name, but played on a shitty 80s sitcom called "Step By Step," alongside Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers, and got the show cancelled because his beating on his wife made the news, and ABC Didn't appreciate that. Apologies for the confusion.
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I saw the show. It was horrific. And so much of it....

Like he's winding up an alambma audiance by propposing a modern mosque, and two men in the audience spontanesouly also bring blacks into it "we have them here too, and we don't like them but we do tolerate them"
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madd0ct0r wrote: 2018-07-24 07:02amI saw the show. It was horrific. And so much of it....

Like he's winding up an alambma audiance by propposing a modern mosque, and two men in the audience spontanesouly also bring blacks into it "we have them here too, and we don't like them but we do tolerate them"
I think I'm beginning to understand why the "crisis actors" conspiracy angle suckers so many people, because I really want to believe they were extras planted in the audience for the sake of a gag because nobody could possibly be that much of a stereotypical redneck in real life.
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PS Spencer has resigned over this now.
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If I thought his trolling couldn't get better, Baron Cohen one ups this.

Long story short, he convinces a pro gun advocate that he survived an islamic beheading attempts by biting the penis of the person with the sword. He did this for more than 4 hours. So he teaches this man how to use this technique by using a dildo. No, I am not kidding.

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Do these people not watch any tv? I mean, it's a month since the last scandal...

Or did he record all of these in a batch and only releases them in small bites?
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LaCroix wrote: 2018-08-19 05:12amDo these people not watch any tv? I mean, it's a month since the last scandal...

Or did he record all of these in a batch and only releases them in small bites?
Depends which TV networks you watch. Has Fox News reported on this story, for example?
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LaCroix wrote: 2018-08-19 05:12am Do these people not watch any tv? I mean, it's a month since the last scandal...

Or did he record all of these in a batch and only releases them in small bites?
The man pranked gave an interview to the NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/arts ... erica.html

The gist of it is, he doesn't watch show time, had no idea who Sacha Baron Cohen is, and it was filmed last July (the show only started airing this July), so there is plenty of reason for this particular guy to be punked despite the show already airing.
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