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Georgia state Rep. Jason Spencer, who was duped by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen into dropping his pants on camera and pretending to be gay as a way to defeat terrorists, is lashing out after being humiliated on a national stage.
In a statement given to the Washington Post’s Steve Zeitchik, Spencer accused Cohen of preying on his fears of being killed in a terrorist attack to trick him into taking part in his bogus “self-defense” class.

Is this all getting to be too grotesque to be mere humor? It is amazing so many conservatives are such easy marks and are so beyond common sense. Some place in heaven, Andy Kaufman is laughing.

Choose one
___ Laugh
___ Cry
 
Laugh, definitely. I just saw this on the local news from Atlanta. There were all laughing, the commentator asked how anyone who claims to be an adult could be fooled into dropping his pants and backing into someone because you think that they are a terrorist.

They didn't say which party the guy is in. I told my wife that he has to be a Republican.
 
I don't think it is a winning political strategy.

One of the most recent talking points among the right wing propaganda machine is that liberals are "mean spirited". It is just a twitter-ready spin on the old persecution complex of the conservatives wanting to play the victim.

Just type "mean spirited liberals" into any search engine and it is page after page of townhall.com, Americanthinker, tucker Carlson, and the like crying about liberals picking on conservatives (it is like visiting a Jack Chick hell with "mean spirited liberal" replacing the Jack Chick caricatures of the Angry Atheist).
 
scombrid said:
I don't think it is a winning political strategy.

One of the most recent talking points among the right wing propaganda machine is that liberals are "mean spirited". It is just a twitter-ready spin on the old persecution complex of the conservatives wanting to play the victim.

Just type "mean spirited liberals" into any search engine and it is page after page of townhall.com, Americanthinker, tucker Carlson, and the like crying about liberals picking on conservatives (it is like visiting a Jack Chick hell with "mean spirited liberal" replacing the Jack Chick caricatures of the Angry Atheist).
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If someone is capering about in massive shoes, a pair of trousers ten sizes too large, an orange wig, and a red nose, doing pratfalls and getting slapped in the face with custard pies, it is a bit disingenuous for him to deride anyone who laughs at his foolishness as 'mean spirited'.

If the right wingers don't like being laughed at, then they should try being less consistently foolish.

Whether laughing at them is a 'winning political strategy' is irrelevant; It's going to happen regardless. But I happen to think that laughter and ridicule are highly effective weapons against authoritarians. That they hate being made fun of is NOT a good reason to stop doing it - Indeed, it seems to be good evidence that making fun of them is an effective strategy - and let's be honest, reason, logic, and calm debate are clearly ineffective, so why not give ridicule a crack?
 
Young Turks included part of the clip where he convinced Spencer to yell out a 'forbidden word' repeatedly to attract attention, so Spencer repeatedly yelled N****r.


[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/ZnEG7EIHINk[/YOUTUBE]



Cohen also tried to pull his stuff with Bernie Sanders, but Sanders did not make a fool out of himself.

'mean spirited liberals'? Ok, people making death threats, make jokes/threats about lynchings, who actively try to get liberals fired for expressing their view or making silent protests, the guys waving Nazi flags, and giving Nazi chants in front of Jewish temples, are not the 'mean spirited' ones?!?
 
Cohen isn't an out liberal and might not be one at all. His antics are pretty neutral and often very politically incorrect, just like South Park. As a logical consequence, he will make conservative politicians look stupid and sometimes liberals will look good. That's the reality of the real world. And, of course, that means that conservatives will construct a narrative that his show is part of liberal mainstream media bias.
 
marc said:
'mean spirited liberals'?
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Seriously, type that phrase into a search engine of your choice. That is the persecution complex meme of the day on the right. It seems to be a winning strategy too.

Ok, people making death threats, make jokes/threats about lynchings, who actively try to get liberals fired for expressing their view or making silent protests, the guys waving Nazi flags, and giving Nazi chants in front of Jewish temples, are not the 'mean spirited' ones?!?
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Well, there is reality. Then there is the papered-over propaganda world in which white nationalists are freedom fighters and liberals are mean spirited tyrants that are going to take away your guns, your Bible, and give all your possessions to black people and Mexicans.
 
Well, the left always applauds this sort of thing when James O'Keefe does it so it must be ok.
 
SimpleDon said:
Laugh, definitely. I just saw this on the local news from Atlanta. There were all laughing, the commentator asked how anyone who claims to be an adult could be fooled into dropping his pants and backing into someone because you think that they are a terrorist.

They didn't say which party the guy is in. I told my wife that he has to be a Republican.
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All you had to do is take one look and you know that guy is a Republican. I have no idea where his district is located. Dick Cheney got fooled too. Chris Matthews showed that last night during his show. I don't know if this is funny or sad. You want to laugh but then you're horrified when you realize that these are some of the folks running our government.
 
I'm not a fan of this sort of thing but Spencer must be incredibly dumb to go along with this nonsense.
 
NPR reviewed Cohen's newest show and said while it has gems here and there, there is a good deal of fail as well... as Cohen really needs people to be very stupid for it to work, otherwise, you just have Cohen overselling an act to a person that thinks they are dealing with someone who isn't well in the head.

There have been a few people (if you consider politicians as people) he has interviewed that saw right through him or knew enough to question what was going on including at least one Republican.
 
ZiprHead said:
dismal said:
Well, the left always applauds this sort of thing when James O'Keefe does it so it must be ok.
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So much fail in one sentence. Must be a new record somewhere.
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Shouldn't he be searching online for a Sacha Cohen and posting a completely wrong identity and then fake surprise when people aren't amused?
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
NPR reviewed Cohen's newest show and said while it has gems here and there, there is a good deal of fail as well....
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True of the new series, as far as I can tell.

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One of my favourites from a while ago:

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZqHh9MDAro[/YOUTUBE]
 
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