Republican leader [Michael Aboud] embarrassed by Ali G film says he plans to sue Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘A liar and a pervert’
The problem with suing a leopard after it has eaten your face is even if you win you still had your face eaten.
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/22/republican-leader-embarrassed-by-ali-g-film-says-he-plans-to-sue-sacha-baron-cohen-a-liar-and-a-pervertOpen linkView original on lemmy.ca
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If this wasn't enough to make you walk out right then & there, you are the biggest fucking dumbass who deserves every bit of infamy coming your way.
No creature on this planet is more pathetic than a Republican.
Beautiful. He gets them every single time.
If only we could figure out why it’s so easy to trick conservatives into saying stupid/racist/child-rapey things…¯\_(ツ)_/¯
He had to end the bit when Rudy Giuliani started taking his pants off to rape the underage character in the 2nd Borat movie
All Rudy had to do was lay low, and occasionally show up at 9/11 events, and he could’ve been remembered more or less by everyone as America’s mayor who led New York through the worst terrorist attack America’s ever seen. Instead he’ll be remembered as the guy who did a press conference in the parking lot of a lawn care company with black goo dripping down his face.
My favorite was his Kinderguardians program skit, arming children with friendly Gunnimals. Some how Matt Gaetz was the smart one, avoided going straight on camera supporting it.
I absolutely thought the first guy was an actor aware that this is a parody, but no, he is an actual gun activist.
This has to be satire; honestly he had to realize at "rocket ship RPG".
This is the same guy that advocated people should be able to get intoxicated in bars with their firearms. I don't believe he's the brightest
The person in the headline was “embarrassed” because he tried to extrajudicially deport what he thought was a live mexican baby. By drone. And to avoid touching foreign soil he dropped the “baby” from height. And he knew he was being filmed doing this, he just thought it was a documentary.
Neither Sacha Baron Cohen nor the Republican guy are good people. Let them fight, I guess.
Sacha is a zionist and a racist. The Republican guy is about what you'd expect from MAGA.
Whatever damage they do to each other is good, but I'm not cheering for either one.
Oof... Another person I enjoyed revealed to be a piece of shit that supports genocide. That fucking sucks.
Isn't that how we, as principled third party Leopard Observers, usually end up feeling about the Leopards?
Sometimes I find myself having a small amount of sympathy for the person who got their face eaten. Not a lot mind you, but often it's a relatively normal person who made a really stupid choice and are reaping what they have sown.
In this case? None at all.
(Edited to add: I also posted my comment because someone else said they wanted to watch the movie, and I think more people should know what kind of person Sacha is)
I'm fully with ya there, though this is also the first that I'm hearing of Cohen's ethnocentrism. Could you share some non-prop sources to help out?
Not that I particularly want to go down that rabbit hole, frankly, but I'd much rather do so w/o having to filter 99.99% of the internet to get to the crux. 😅
I'm not going to pretend to be unbiased in this, just so you know. I'm Palestinian myself.
Sacha Baron Cohen has not recently explicitly called himself a Zionist, however the pattern of behaviour (in my opinion) is clear.
Described as very Zionist in this article. https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-nerd-factor-in-sacha-baron-cohens-past/
In general, he uses pretty racist stereotypes about Arabs in general. i.e. The Dictator, Ali G, Borat, etc. (it's a known tactic that when calling something anti-semitic isn't enough to stave off reputational damage to Israel, stoking Islamophobia or anti-Arab racism is another tactic Zionists reach for https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-israel-reputation-survey-research-mark-penn-stagwell )
He conflates criticism of Israel with anti-semitism, and lobbied for tiktok to be taken over by Larry Ellison for being too pro-Palestine. (The NYT reporting on Palestine is atrocious, and so is this article's slant, but I'm linking it anyway) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technology/tiktok-jewish-open-letter-antisemitism.html
Works/worked with the ADL, who also conflate criticism of Israel with anti-semitism and are pro-Israel https://www.adl.org/resources/article/following-sacha-baron-cohens-speech-here-adls-short-list-social-media-accounts
Co-writers of his include Lee Kern, openly a Zionist.
He twists and misleads people about Palestinians: https://v2.courthousenews.com/palestinian-grocer-sues-sacha-baron-cohen/
Hopefully that justifies my point of view enough for you.
I love it when the Streisand Effect lets me know a movie I want to see is coming out.
Embarrassing Republicans is always good, but Cohen is a zionist, with significant ties to the israeli state, and CIA, so... that's a great big nope for me.
Evidently he's a Zionist, so fuck him and his movies.
Considering SBC's lawyers have a quarter-century long winning streak against malding conservatives, I think he'll be OK. Free advertising!
Huh, well that means whatever it was that Sasha said is definitely true.
TIL there is a new cohen movie
neat
"A liar and a pervert" makes him a perfect candidate for President, Vice President, and several cabinet positions
He's well on his way to FBI recruitment, at that rate.
jfc