i really do think sacha baron cohen is a genius

it makes me VERY uncomfortable to watch da ali g show, but man oh man what interviews he has done as ali, the german gay dude AND borat. i don't know how i feel about borat being from kazakhstan. perhaps mr cohen could have chosen a made-up land instead. what i AM going to justify is his singing of 'throw the jew down the well' (as borat). it is my opinion mr cohen was MAKING A POINT. A VERY UGLY POINT, but a POINT. he went into some red-neck bar (oh ok, i'll use the term rural instead) - he went into some RURAL bar in arizona i believe (it could be another state so don't quote me on that) as borat. he got up to the mik and asked to sing a "folk song from his country". by the second verse EVERYONE in the bar was singing along with him PROVING people ain't so nice after all. the lyrics certainly were anti-semitic and nasty and hurtful. no one in the audience batted an eyelash under their cowboy hats. they LOVED that song. are people racist and anti semitic and prejudiced? oh yes they are and they are you and me.

Take That, Borat: Kazakhstan Runs 4-Page Ad Section in 'N.Y. Times'
By E&P Staff Published: November 28, 2005 12:05 PM ET
NEW YORK As if responding to the escalating battle with famed TV personality Borat Sagdiyev, a character on HBO's "Da Ali G Show," the Kazakhstan government today published a four-page advertising section in The New York Times. The section, titled, "Kazakhstan in the 21st Century," carried testimonials to its oil production, its democracy, education system, and purported "power and influence" of women.The feud has been simmering for the past year, after Borat and his frank depictions of life in his homeland (where, he claims, gypsies are still hunted for sport and women rank somewhere below farm animals in the pecking order) gained wide popularity in both the U.S. and the U.K. He also wrote the popular folk song, “Throw the Jew Down the Well.” A feature length film, “Borat: The Movie,” is currently in production.Many, for some reason, suspect Borat is actually comic Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays Ali G.The latest round of charges began this month when Borat appeared on an MTV awards show in Europe accompanied by a drunken, one-eyed Kazakh pilot and mentioned the joys of shooting dogs. (He also suggested that Madonna was a transvestite.) He signed off with: "To the world, I love you, apart from Uzbekistan, a--holes."A Kazakh foreign ministry official responded: "We view Mr. Cohen's behavior at the MTV Europe Music Awards as utterly unacceptable, being a concoction of bad taste and ill manners, which is completely incompatible with ethics and civilized behavior." He added: "We do not rule out [the possibility] Mr Baron-Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its people in a derogatory way.” A lawsuit was mentioned.Borat fired back at his Web site, http://www.borat.kz/, with this statement:"I like to state I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my government's decision to sue this Jew.........