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In Reply to: Here's my problem with Borat. posted by sjb on November 3, 2006 at 09:48:49:
He demonstrates how seemingly "nice" people can hold ugly repugnant attitudes we thought were only now held by rabid fanatics. The guy is a genius. The question is; how many must he dupe to find a real closet Nazi? (Many, I hope.) I love his Ali G embarrassing interviews with big shots who will go along with any raunchy drivel if they think it'll get them on TV. Pretty amazing. Of all the VIPs I've seen interviewed on his HBO shows, ex-SoS George Schultz was the only one I saw who had the balls to say it was BS and walk out.
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I haven't seen the film yet (I plan to though) but I can see how many normal people could allow themselves to humor a "crazy" foreigner who is saying outrageous things just to avoid confrontation. How many of us have not spoken up when friends or relatives have said something off-color? Then, think what it would be like to confront someone who is ostensibly a foreign journalist - and a crazy and unpredictable one at that - in front of a camera crew. That's what I suspect most of the footage in the film shows; we obviously won't see the bulk of the material that didn't turn out to this comic's advantage. He wants to show the United States as a country full of fat bigotted idiots, and that is easy enough to do given the population of America is 300 million. Certainly, it would have been just as easy (if not easier) to do the same thing in England - a nation that is chock full of inbred bad-toothed rustics, skinheads and soccer holigans, and zenophobic nationalists. It's the easiest trick in the book of anti-American propaganda to find a few examples of what is even more commonplace in other countries and present it as somehow typical of the "American psyche".Sadly though, being the most powerful and prosperous nation on earth and taking unilateral (even though necessary) action in confronting radical Islamism leaves us open to resentment and jealousy from lesser nations, especially once-great empires like Great Britain that have fallen on hard times and have a burgeoning Islamist problem within their home territory.
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