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Borat is make you laugh, think; He's free to offend you and me, fortunately.
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The Washington Times
Publication Date: 03-NOV-06 |
Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Borat is make you laugh, think; He's free to offend you and me, fortunately.(SHOW)(ON THE EDGE) |
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Byline: Scott Galupo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
How does he get away with it?
Sacha Baron Cohen, the secretive British comedian who stars as a guilelessly backward Kazakh TV reporter in "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," would have us believe his character's mostly Muslim countrymen are a bunch of misogynistic, homophobic, incestuous anti-Semites.
The whole thing is a joke, of course - a screamingly funny, bring-a-paper-bag-'cause-you-may-hyperventilate joke. In addition to being the most sophisticated vulgar movie I've ever seen - it's the thinking man's "Jackass" - it's easily the most groundbreaking comic performance of the new century.
But Muslim extremists aren't famous for their sense of humor or, indeed, for receptivity to satire or criticism of any kind.
People have died for less than "Borat."
Radical Islamist leaders from London to Mogadishu called for Pope Benedict XVI's scalp after he hinted, obscurely, of a link between Islam and violent conversion....
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