ruby sparks
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Sacha Baron Cohen - Threat Or Menace?
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I am unburdened by what has been.
What makes this a favourite of yours ? It's painful to watch, the woman is either very naive, dumb or playing along because she thinks she is dealing with a retard.
Derec
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My money is on dumb.
Especially the stupid comment about sex work - most people have to work for a living. If a woman can make more doing sex work than waitressing or working as a cashier, why shouldn't she have that choice. Or man for that matter, but there is less demand for male sex workers of course.
And his question, which she largely ignored, raised a good point even though it was stated in typical Ali G fashion - women these days can pursue pretty much all male dominated jobs but there are many jobs where women have the biological edge - particularly all sex-related jobs from video vixens and strippers to full sex worker. Therefore, overall, women have more job opportunities.
Yes plus, of course, it's intolerable because it's cultural appropriation and denying an actual black person an acting role.
Derec
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Cheerful Charlie
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ia-who-is-america_us_5b581052e4b0b15aba937743
State Rep. Jason Spencer (R-Woodbine) of Georgia has reportedly announced his resignation ― two days after the airing of a wild “Who Is America?” episode in which the lawmaker was seen exposing his bare buttocks and yelling a variety of racial epithets.
Spencer, who’d faced mounting pressure to resign from office following the airing of the Showtime program, said he would vacate his seat on July 31, according to a letter submitted to Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, reported CNN and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Sacha got one! One less idiot boy in politics.
State Rep. Jason Spencer (R-Woodbine) of Georgia has reportedly announced his resignation ― two days after the airing of a wild “Who Is America?” episode in which the lawmaker was seen exposing his bare buttocks and yelling a variety of racial epithets.
Spencer, who’d faced mounting pressure to resign from office following the airing of the Showtime program, said he would vacate his seat on July 31, according to a letter submitted to Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, reported CNN and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Sacha got one! One less idiot boy in politics.
Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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Now that he's a victim, he can write a book and run for President.
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He lost his primary so he wasn't going to be around much longer anyway. This just makes his job hunt afterwards more awkward.
ruby sparks
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I'm not sure why it's my favourite. It's not that far ahead of many others though, so it's not my way out favourite.
Yes, it is a bit painful to watch, though I'm not sure what pains you about it specifically. Also, painful/cringeworthy comedy is a fairly popular and legit strand of comedy and has been since the invention of film and probably before.
There's no doubt he takes advantage of his unsuspecting interviewees/victims, in a way that might be described as entrapment.
I can see why some might like his stuff or not like it. It's at the controversial end of the humour spectrum (what with the unwitting victim thing). Also, it is hit and miss, especially in the latest series.
As to Naomi Wolf, she certainly isn't particularly dumb. Possibly a tad naive maybe but that's not a crime. Yes, she probably does think she's dealing with a fool, though to her credit she accords him generous respect and she herself and her integrity could not be said to come out of the interview badly (except for the fact that she got fooled, it seems), certainly not as badly as some others who Cohen entices into saying and doing arguably downright nauseating things (see: US Congressmen advocating guns for toddlers for example) and I do think Cohen is very good at it, and in no way clumsy. His repeated, longstanding success, both in the USA and here, testifies, imo, to how professional, practised and subtly skilful he is.
Underseer
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Even if the two were remotely equivalent*, how does that make it OK to be fine with O'Keefe, but not OK with Baron-Cohen?
And they very much are not Cohen. O'Keefe routinely uses dishonest editing to create false impressions of what people said or did. But even if they were equivalent, someone else being also wrong doesn't make you right. It's still just another whatboutism tu quoque fallacy.
As for the Georgia idiot:
If someone asks you to yell the n-word and your response is not "Fuck you," then it's time to ask yourself some tough questions. Stop blaming the comedian.