Posted on 04/19/2009 5:16:25 PM PDT by Liam2007
After the huge success of Sacha Baron Cohen's films Ali G In Da House and Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan, you'd think people would have wised up to the comedian's disguises. But it appears not everyone recognises the comedian when he's dressed up as his third alter-ego, gay Austrian fashion reporter Bruno.
Texas congressman Ron Paul, who was a Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential election, was left fuming after he was unwittingly tricked into a hotel room with Cohen's Bruno character.
The right-wing politician was tricked into being a target of seduction by Bruno last summer by posing as an economic reporter.
After Paul briefly appeared in the trailer for Cohen's forthcoming film Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America For The Purpose Of Making Heterosexual Male, he realised he would have to explain himself to voters. Speaking on America's ABC radio this week, angry Paul condemned Cohen for lying and accused him of 'fraud'. During an interview with presenter Curtis Sliwa, Paul was asked how he ended up in a hotel room in such a compromising situation.
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I too fail to see the humor in lying about your identity and misrepresenting your purpose in order to get someone on film. It is fraud. After I watched Borat, all I wanted to do was punch that guy in the bad area.
maybe the scene with Ron Paul isn’t funny - but when Bruno shows up at a fashion show and proceeds to wreak velcro-havoc - well, lets just say that is pretty funny
But this is about Ron Paul though. I’m sure if this had happened to a RINO, FReepers would be outraged.
Troll alert. Newbie hoping to whip the ‘Paulites’ into a feeding frenzy?
I’m just sayin’... ;)
;)
I would welcome that pipesmoker to come interview me and some friends. The cameras would not stay on long and the memory devices would be magnetized.
Jon Stewart and Steohen Colbert and Michael Moore are the US versions. ALL of them make fun of people through fraud, trickery and sly editing. We are all dumn rubes comared to these sophisticates.
Anybody remember the last time an MSM outlet labelled a politician as "left-wing"?
I wonder if he’ll ever try something on the Obama cult? He will be considered a racist if he ever does. Right now, he has the Paulites to worry about. Good.
The visual impression of Ron Paul getting laid is disturbing enough.
Grandpa Munster is a journalist?
The top labels it as UK Daily Times and the bottom labels it as UK Daily Mail.
wanna fix it?
Well it is easy to say that, and I think Cohen is a scum bag, but evidently Ron Paul is too.
Glad to know, not only is he a tin-foil wearing anti-military truther, but he is also a puffter.
No, and it kind of bugs me that they’d call a nearly pure libertarian “right wing”.
On the other hand, we can’t expect our friends on the other side of the pond to understand the political scene here.
'So there was some dishonesty getting me into the interview, I was expecting an interview on Austrian economics. That didn't turn out that way.
'By the time he (Cohen) started pulling his pants down, I was like what on earth is going on here and I ran out of the room. This interview had ended.'
BTW, interesting article from earlier today about liberals importing European political labels in order to slander conservatives:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232820/posts
I'd laugh at any RINO trolling to do a bedroom scene with Sacha Baron Cohen.
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