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Michael Totten draws attention to the apparent decision by Hamas to take a brief hiatus from active terror attacks in order to engage themselves in a “culture war,” which includes the production of at least one movie. Now it seems that over in the West Bank, the terrorists have started a culture war of their own. Their prime target: Bruno, aka the Jew and occasional Hebrew-speaker Sacha Baron Cohen. A few days ago, we learned that one of Bruno’s interviewees, a former operative for the Al-Aksa Martyr’s Brigade who spent seven years in an Israeli prison, was suing Baron Cohen...

The British comedian behind Bruno has tightened his security after a Middle Eastern terror group issued a hostile threat against him. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is "very upset" over its portrayal in Sacha Baron Cohen's film, in which he plays an Austrian homosexual fashion journalist. The Palestinian-based terrorists said they would "respond in a suitable way", according to a statement published online. In the film, Cohen's flamboyant Bruno character interviews Ayman Abu Aita, who he introduces as the leader of the Martyrs Brigades. Bruno is seen imploring Mr Abu Aita to hold him captive. "I want to be famous,"...

Sacha Baron Cohen has stepped up his security after being threatened by a terrorist organisation that is angered at its portrayal in the film Brüno. The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a coalition of Palestinian militias in the West Bank, said it was “very upset” that it featured in the film starring Baron Cohen’s homosexual fashionista alter ego. Baron Cohen’s Austrian character ridicules the terrorist group when he attempts to get himself kidnapped during a meeting with Ayman Abu Aita, who is identified in the film as the leader of the Martyrs’ Brigades. The London-born actor is reportedly taking the threat seriously...

- Klavan On The Culture - http://pajamasmedia.com/andrewklavan - Cohen Goin’ GonePosted By Andrew Klavan On July 20, 2009 @ 3:52 pm In Uncategorized | 3 Comments Am I alone in harboring a secret pleasure at the death of Bruno?  The much-hyped follow-up to Sacha Baron Cohen’s hit Borat opened big at the box office then rapidly plummeted over 70 percent to fourth place – and when I heard about it, I smiled.  I didn’t see the film and have no comment on its quality and I don’t care if it’s anti-gay since gays, God love them, should be fair targets...

How does the actress Isla Fisher cope? After ten minutes in the company of her other half, Sacha Baron Cohen, you start casually wondering about such matters. After 20, you are forced to conclude that she deserves some sort of medal. Living with the many personalities Baron Cohen has inhabited over the last few years can't have been easy. First, he was Ali G; then Borat, the bumbling Kazakh TV presenter – each new incarnation more irritating than the last. This time round he is Bruno, a gay Austrian fashionista extraordinaire, and the star of Baron Cohen's latest film. In...

Apparently one of the people pranked in Sasha Baron Cohen's latest foray into tasteless humor was a radical Palestinian who's been convicted of terror charges in Israel. Now he's suing, presumably because something embarrassing happened in his interview with the uber-gay Bruno character. I'm no huge fan of this whole Bruno idea... but I have to smile at anything that ticks off a guy like Ayman More.. Abu Aita.

Washington DC is the home of countless academic institutions, and the number one destination for higher learning for people all over the country and the world. Most notably, DC is known for Law programs and degrees in International Affairs. Hand in hand with those areas of study is a focus on Human Rights. How would you feel if you relocated to Washington, DC, to receive a world class education, and your professor of Human Rights taught that homosexuality was wrong? That’s exactly what’s happening at New York University’s Law School. NYU OUTlaws are a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...

Movieguide® has sent a letter asking local government officials throughout the U.S. to consider stopping the screening of the controversial movie "Brüno" starring comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, Movieguide® Publisher Dr. Ted Baehr announced today. In the letter, Movieguide® asks officials to get an injunction against screening the movie on Friday until officials can look at the movie and determine whether it should be banned because it does not fit the "community standards" in their area, as defined by U.S. Supreme Court rulings on obscenity and pornography. "This movie has been cut to get an R rating," Dr. Baehr said, "but...

Every lightning bolt Sacha Baron Cohen caught in a bottle with Borat three years ago turns to static in Bruno. The new film, which backstrokes into theaters on a tidal wave of publicity over its coarse material, proves just how rare a cinematic feat was Baron Cohen’s breakthrough role . Borat blended scripted sequences with Candid Camera-style pranks into one hilarious romp across America. Bruno attempts the same formula, but the staged sequences fall pancake flat while the Punk’d moments feel equally hollow. For the uninitiated, Bruno is Baron Cohen’s gay Austrian fashionista, an irrepressible elf desperate for fame and...

Our organization has just viewed the upcoming “R-rated” movie “Brüno,” which is scheduled to come out in local movie theaters Friday, July 10. Having attended a screening of the movie, we can factually state that the movie contains the following obscene, pornographic and offensive material (and more besides): • Extremely graphic sex scenes (including depicted heterosexual intercourse, depicted oral sex (including anal licking), depicted homosexual sodomy, and sadomasochistic whipping of a homosexual in his bikini briefs by a fully nude female “Dominatrix”); • Scenes of full frontal male and female nudity (including extended close-ups of a man swinging his fully...

I've seen a lot of videos on the Web but this has to be the most absolutely HILARIOUS video ever!!! TOTAL humiliation of Eminem at the MTV Awards by Bruno. Watch it at the 50 second mark when Bruno "traps" Eminem. The look of absolute DISGUST on the helpless Eminem's face is priceless. And soon afterwards, a totally humiliated Eminem stormed out of the auditorium. He will NEVER live this down! Hee! Hee! Watch the VIDEO.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. gay activists are worried that comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, "Bruno," could reinforce negative stereotypes about homosexuals just as they are making gains in the fight for rights such as same-sex marriage. Cohen, who scored a surprise hit in 2006 with "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," portrays a flamboyant gay Austrian fashion reporter in the new film that premieres on Wednesday in London and opens in the United States on July 10.

After an exhaustive and controversial production proccess, Sacha Baron Cohen and UNIVERSAL are finally set to unleash BRUNO onto the multiplex -- and gay groups are reacting with "deeply mixed" emotions! "Some people in our community may like this movie, but many are not going to be OK with it," Rashad Robinson, senior director for the GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINST DEFAMATION, tells the NEW YORK TIMES in a planned Sunday expose. "Sacha Baron Cohen's well-meaning attempt at satire is problematic in many places and outright offensive in others." Brad Luna, a spokesman for HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, warns the movie...

Yep, it sure seems obvious that Eminem's tempestuous reaction to his face being attacked by Sacha Baron Cohen's butt at the MTV Movie Awards was orchestrated. As a winged, nearly naked Cohen crashed to earth like Icarus, he had to land on someone if the stunt was to have comedic effect. For max funniness, that person should have max rebellious 'tude. That's Eminem in that crowd last night. It can't be a coincidence that the two forces met and cameras were poised to catch it perfectly on TV. Eminem Sacha Baron Cohen MTV Movie Awards 837429516 news Furthermore, it seemed...

After a huge worldwide success of "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as Ali G, is releasing a new movie in July this year. The new movie is titled "Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male." In the movie, Cohen's character Bruno, a gay reporter working for "Austrian Boys Broadcasting," crashes fashion events and interviews unsuspecting guests about entertainment, fashion, celebrities, and homosexuality. One of those interviewed for the movie by Bruno in early 2008 was Ron Paul, former Republican presidential candidate and US...

US politician Ron Paul has said that he will have to apologise to his supporters for not punching Sacha Baron Cohen when he tricked him into a spoof interview for his upcoming movie Bruno. The 73-year-old failed presidential candidate told ABC Radio that the interview did not occur in a hotel as it appears in the film but instead took place in a studio made to look like a bedroom. Paul said: "I was expecting an interview on Austrian economics. So, that didn't turn out that way. But by the time he started pulling his pants down...I ran out of...

THE Sun has got its hands on the first trailer from what is sure to be the most outrageous movie of the year - Bruno. And from what we have seen it looks like SACHA BARON COHEN's follow up to Borat is ready to shock. To see the hilarious clip, watch below: In the film, which opens on July 10, British comic Cohen plays a gay Austrian TV presenter called Bruno. The trailer shows Bruno on a talk show with his black adopted baby saying: “I gave him a traditional African name - OJ.” A shocked Afro-Caribbean member of the...

Note: This article contains spoilers about Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming movie, Bruno. Presidential candidates will do almost anything for publicity. But Ron Paul's appearance in Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming Bruno movie suggests he draws the line at making sex tapes with gay Austrian TV hosts. In a five-minute scene, comedian Cohen tries—and fails—to seduce the Texas congressman and former Republican presidential candidate in a Washington hotel room. A spokeswoman for Paul confirmed the appearance but declined to discuss details, which were provided by two people who attended a test screening last week. The film, slated for release in July, is...

Joseph Bruno, once one of the most powerful politicians in the state, said after he was indicted on federal corruption charges Friday that he's being unfairly targeted. In court papers, investigators highlighted more than $3 million in payments Bruno allegedly received from people and businesses seeking state and union contracts. Bruno, a Republican from Rensselaer County, had been the Senate Majority leader until he stepped down last July. "This is not the first time we've seen deeply flawed, dysfunctional or even illegal behavior by those with prosecutorial power," Bruno said Friday. The FBI said Bruno sought to have numerous unions...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was indicted on Friday by a federal grand jury on corruption charges linked to his obtaining brokerage business for unions. The indictment charges the Republican with eight counts, including mail and wire fraud.

Albert P. Carey, President and CEO Frito-Lay North America 7701 Legacy Drive Plano, Texas 75024 Dear Mr. Carey, I would like to make a proposal for Frito Lay to consider. Please bear with me as I 'Lays' the ground work. If your not aware, New York State is offering 1.2 Billion dollar subsidy for a chip fabrication plant to be located in Saratoga New York. We the citizens of New York, are led to believe this is an effort to bring new jobs to the State –roughly 1,400 jobs. The State has been in lengthy discussions with Advanced Micro Devices...

(The following is the legend of the breviary for St. Bruno, as quoted in Dom Prosper Guéranger's entry in The Liturgical Year for October 6, in Volume XIV of the 1983 Marian House edition of the English translation by the Benedictines of Stanbrook.) "Bruno, the founder of the Carthusian Order, was born at Cologne [Germany], and from his very cradle gave great promise of future sanctity. Favoured by divine grace, the gravity of his character made him shun all childishness; so that, even at that age, one might have foreseen in him the future father of monks and restorer...

Three senior aides to a former governor, Eliot Spitzer, and a former state police superintendent violated state ethics laws by plotting against a former Republican majority leader of the Senate, Joseph Bruno, the state's top ethics body has concluded. More than a year after the Spitzer administration was hit with allegations that it improperly used the state police to dig up travel records that could prove damaging to the former Senate leader, the State Commission on Public Integrity handed down the first formal charges related to the scandal. It did not find evidence linking Mr. Spitzer to the scandal. The...

Akansas cage fights turn gay for new Sacha Baron Cohen movie. ULY 8--Lured by $1 beer and the prospect of "hot chicks" and "hardcore fights," thousands of Arkansans were duped last month into appearing as extras in comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest staged mayhem. Cohen and his confederates organized cage fighting programs on consecutive days in Texarkana and Fort Smith. Both cards ended with two male grapplers (one was identified as "Straight Dave" and wore camouflage) tearing each other's clothes off and, while in underwear, kissing down their opponent's chest. This man-on-man action triggered Fort Smith fans to throw chairs...

For those familiar with the antics of shock comic Sacha Baron Cohen , it was a case of déjà vu, all over again. On May 28, he outraged a crowd of unsuspecting guests at a Carrollton office park by luring them to what they thought was a new talk show on "family values." [Click image for a larger version] Hello, Arkansas. As an encore early last month, he outraged a crowd of 1,600 by luring them to what was billed as cage fighting. Police say the show was designed instead to capture the reactions of the unsuspecting to the sight...

ALBANY — Again and again when he appeared before a state ethics commission last year, a top aide to Gov. Eliot Spitzer tried to explain that he had told the governor about steps he was taking to gather the travel records of Joseph L. Bruno, then the Senate majority leader. But the commission’s executive director kept changing the subject and did not want to hear about Mr. Spitzer’s involvement, says the aide, Darren Dopp. In his first extended interview about the case, Mr. Dopp said this week that he was refusing to reach a settlement with the ethics commission, known...

Here’s the statement Joe Bruno just issued regarding his decision not to seek re-election in November: ”Today, I met with my Republican colleagues in the Senate and informed them that I will not be running for re-election this November. “After 32 years in office, I have decided that it is time to move on with my life and to give my constituents an opportunity for new representation and my colleagues in the Senate who have supported me, an opportunity for new leadership. “Public service has been a blessing for which I will be ever grateful. I have had the opportunity...

ALBANY, N.Y. _ Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, who has run the Republican chamber for more than a dozen years, confirmed Monday that he won't seek re-election in the fall.

ALBANY — The other day, the state’s top Republican, Joseph L. Bruno, stepped out of a meeting to take a phone call. “Governor Bruno?” the voice on the other end said. “Who’s this?” Mr. Bruno asked, momentarily disoriented. “It’s David!” said the real governor, David A. Paterson, who was in Washington. “You are the governor!” Technically it was true. Under the State Constitution, when Mr. Paterson leaves New York his duties transfer to Mr. Bruno. “I’m glad you called,” cracked Mr. Bruno, who described the exchange later to a reporter. “I’m going to run right down and see what the...

CUOMO ON THE CASEApril 1, 2008 -- It's up to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo now: Gov. Paterson, as The Post's Fredric U. Dicker reports today, has asked the AG to open a criminal probe of the State Police in the wake of Eliot Spitzer's Dirty Tricks campaign. **SNIP** "Recent reported events raise questions of possible political interference with the State Police," Paterson wrote to Cuomo, "and I am determined to not only ascertain the veracity of such reports but to do everything within my power to protect . . . the reputation of the State Police." Paterson's move followed Dicker's...

SCHEMER: Darren Dopp, one of the governor's men who orchestrated the plot against Joe Bruno. Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer would have faced a grand-jury probe and may have warranted impeachment for repeatedly lying about his involvement in the Dirty Tricks Scandal, an explosive report from the Albany County district attorney concluded yesterday. In a startling revelation, District Attorney David Soares said that had Spitzer not resigned in the call-girl scandal, the DA would have asked a grand jury to consider urging impeachment or other disciplinary action because the then-governor repeatedly claimed in testimony to Soares that he was not...

From the moment last July when State Editor Fred Dicker broke the story that the State Police - at the direction of then-Gov. Spitzer's office - began detailed surveillance of Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, one question has remained: What did Spitzer know - and when did he know it? Now, comes a front-page NY Times report confirming nearly every exclusive broken by The Post's Albany bureau. That puts the lie to the whitewash report issued last September by Albany DA David Soares......... Attorney General Andrew Cuomo certainly came close to the real story. His bombshell report concluded that key...

Disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer was up to his neck in his administration's dirty tricks aimed at discrediting State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.....Spitzer ordered senior aides to release potentially damning information, The New York Times reported. Spitzer has adamantly denied involvement....But, according to the DA's report, he even called former aide Darren Dopp at home to check on his progress in carrying out the orders. Dopp said he warned Spitzer that Bruno would be angry - but the then-governor dismissed the alert, getting so furious, he turned red and spit out the coffee he was drinking, according to the report....

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was deeply involved in his administration’s efforts last year to discredit the State Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, holding detailed discussions with senior aides, ordering damaging information about Mr. Bruno released, and calling an aide at home repeatedly to check on the progress, according to several people with direct knowledge of the investigation. The governor has previously said he was not personally involved in the effort, suggesting only that he was vaguely aware that his aides had responded to a reporter’s inquiry about Mr. Bruno’s travels on state aircraft. But testimony and other information gathered...

The decision by state ethics officials to ask the district attorney of Albany County, David Soares, to investigate perjury allegations against a former top aide to Governor Spitzer is coming under increasing scrutiny in Albany political circles. Under speculation is whether the perjury referral made by the Commission on Public Integrity was influenced by a motive to protect Mr. Spitzer. The commission is conducting a probe into allegations that the governor's office may have committed ethical violations by involving the state police in an alleged attempt to discredit the Republican Senate leader, Joseph Bruno. Some Republicans and legal experts are...

EXCLUSIVE Democrat Gov. Spitzer is being blamed for siccing the FBI on Republican Sen Bruno - after earlier accusations that Spitzer unleashed the State Police, and tried to unleash the IRS on Bruno as well.

Gov. Spitzer's former communications director, Darren Dopp, asked another Spitzer aide to lie about the origins of the Dirty Tricks Scandal - including the governor's own allegedly extensive knowledge of the plot to smear the Senate's GOP leader, a well-placed source told The Post yesterday. ~~~Snip~~~ As soon as The Post broke the story of the anti-Bruno plot on July 5 - and revealed that many of Dopp's claims were false - an "emergency" meeting was held in one of Spitzer's executive offices at the Capitol to discuss the scandal. Present at the meeting were Dopp, Howard, Spitzer Chief of...

Spitzer hiring city lawyer on taxpayer expense in TroopergateBY JOE MAHONEY DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU CHIEF Saturday, October 13th 2007, 4:00 AM ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer has lined up a Manhattan lawyer - at taxpayer expense - to help him quash subpoenas sent to his office by a GOP-controlled panel investigating the Troopergate scandal. Spitzer's office confirmed that Dietrich Snell, a former deputy attorney general, will help the administration as it seeks to block the Senate Investigations Committee's push for e-mails and other documents related to an effort by the governor's aides to discredit Senate GOP leader Joe Bruno. An...

After Governor Spitzer's staff's plan to use the state police against the Senate Republican leader, Joseph Bruno, backfired in a scandal, the governor's office tried unleashing a different authority against Mr. Bruno — the Internal Revenue Service. The plan was that, guided by Mr. Spitzer's office, Democrats in the state Senate would get federal agents to go after Mr. Bruno for taxes they say might be due on the value of several trips on state aircraft that he took to New York City where he conducted mostly political business. A draft of the letter to the IRS, which was signed...

October 12, 2007 -- Gov. Spitzer's continuing claims that he wants to focus on governing and leave his office's Dirty Tricks campaign behind, would be laughable even if that campaign weren't still ongoing. Yesterday, Post State Editor Fredric U. Dicker reported that Spitzer aides were conspiring with state Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith's staff to turn the Internal Revenue Service against Majority Leader Joseph Bruno. Amazingly, Spitzer's press secretary, Christine Anderson, then admitted as much. Bruno says that Smith told him the IRS ploy was only one of several that were (are?) in the works - but declined to elaborate....

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Several Democratic state senators allied with Gov. Eliot Spitzer drafted a letter to the Internal Revenue Service urging the agency to investigate Republican Senate leader Joseph Bruno, a move Bruno blasted as the latest in a smear campaign against him despite the fact the letter was never sent. Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith notified Bruno about the letter, first obtained by The New York Post, which pushed for an IRS investigation into whether the majority leader had any income tax liability for personal use of state aircraft, Bruno said Thursday. "There were communications between my staff and...

It's time to "fight fire with fire." That's Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's message to his fellow Democrat, Gov. Spitzer, when it comes to dealing with the governor's arch political enemy, and New York's top Republican, Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. (snip) The speaker yesterday urged the governor to exercise his right to appoint a Moreland commission, which would have subpoena power and the ability to investigate "whatever it is they want to look into." "I think it's appropriate to do the same thing [the Senate Republicans] are doing, which is basically to do a fishing expedition," Silver said. "It's tit...

ALBANY, Sept. 20 — The Albany County district attorney said on Thursday that Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his administration did not break any laws and acted within their authority in their handling of travel records related to the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno. The news was a victory for the Spitzer administration, which was knocked back on its heels when the state attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo — a Democrat, as is the governor — issued a report in mid-July that found that the governor’s staff had misused the State Police in their effort to discredit Mr. Bruno, the...

U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo is calling for the Glenwood Springs Police Department and Garfield County Sheriff's Office to get tougher on immigration. The outspoken immigration hawk lowered the boom on the downvalley police agencies last week upon learning 7-Eleven shooting suspect Ricardo Ramirez had at least two previous contacts with police that failed to put him in custody. Records show that Ramirez, an illegal immigrant, cursed at police and was uncooperative in 2006 when he was the passenger in a Glenwood Springs drunken driving case that occurred two years after he had been deported to Mexico and illegally returned here....

That was fast. In a just-released statement, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno called the Roger Stone phone call flap "a distraction from the real issues - the abuse of government power, political espionage and a cover-up of information," but said the consultant has agreed to "resign and end his relationship with us at our request." "We are not going to let this incident become a distraction or to be used as an excuse to hamper people from getting at the truth," Bruno said. The investigations into the Executive Chamber are continuing. We hope that both District Attorney Soares and the...

PSC Member Claims Energy Adviser Mitnick Threatened Her (CBS) NEW YORK One of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's top advisers has resigned under pressure after allegedly threatening a Republican on the Public Service Commission. Virtually since the day he took office, Spitzer has been criticized for his use of intimidation to achieve his goals. There are a slew of investigations going on into his aides' efforts to dig up dirt on his political nemesis, Senate Leader Joe Bruno. Well, his administration is just 8 months old, but Spitzer on Friday purged another top-level aide who was under investigation. This time it was...

In the past, if Bruno Kirchenwitz wanted to see his name in print or vent about U.S. immigration policy, he would write letters to local newspapers about "illegal hordes" and stemming "the tide that threatens our sovereignty." Today, the former 7-Eleven clerk who was fired from his job after a shooting at the Basalt store has become a minor celebrity in local and regional media and a full-fledged poster child on conservative Internet Web sites dedicated to immigration reform. "I'm kind of like the kid that's gotten a thousand presents for Christmas," he said of the recent media attention. "I've...

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is now traveling the state trying to put a scandal behind him... Here's what we know, thanks to some enterprising reporting ...and an investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo: Two close advisers to the governor apparently used the New York State Police to carry out a political smear campaign against me by creating documents designed to generate negative press reports... And it nearly worked. ...there is only one way forward for Mr. Spitzer. He needs to support a full airing of the truth. That support must include publicly testifying under oath, and making...

By all rights, battered Joe Bruno should have been waiting in line at the state Crime Victims Assistance Board last Wednesday, seeking the redress that is rightfully his. The governor's men had tried to get him, hadn't they? Set him up, put the state police on his trail, concocted phony reports, leaked them to friendly reporters? It was all right there in a report put together by novice prober Andrew Cuomo, an investigation compiled in record time. It should have been called "Joe Bruno: Wronged." But the wily old Republican, savvy leader of the state senate, knew luck when he...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer rolled into office on a promise to clean up and energize a moribund government beholden to special interests, and one of the state's top Republicans looked like a man with a target on his back. Instead, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno has the upper hand on Spitzer — nicknamed the Steamroller — just seven months into the governor's first term and as the GOP fights to keep its slim majority in an increasingly Democratic state. "Steamrollers don't do very well when the going gets tough. Going uphill, they just spin," Bruno said, "and...