Posted on 04/17/2009 3:31:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
After the huge success of Sacha Baron Cohen's films Ali G In Da House and Borat, 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.
He said: 'We were in a studio situation, I wasn't invited into a hotel room. There were lots of lights and blaze and commotion and they said we better get in this back room which had been fixed up as a bedroom.
'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.'
In what is sure to be hilarious viewing in the upcoming film, Paul is stunned when Bruno starts to disrobe in front of him.
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And if anyone should know about “frauds” it’s a Republican.
I've read several Freepers talking about how Cohen's schtick is supposed to be, but he'll never get any of my money. In the article they talk about how funny it will be, but it's really about trying to degrade someone by taking them down to Cohen's level.
BS. Whatever I think of Ron Paul’s politics, this was a cheap sleazy stunt.
I’m not going after Palin only pointing that any “lapses” by Ron Paul are not that great when compared to other politicians.
Strange to hear criticism of Cheney....well just tune in Hannity on Monday and you’ll feel reassured.
Paul doesn’t have a problem siding with those Hollywood punks when it comes to dumping on American defending Herself.
It’s no one’s fault but Paul’s that he was so easily tricked.
He not forcing anyone to do anything. It’s not his fault his subjects are so stupid.
Me too.
A relative got me to go see Borat. Neither of us knew anything about the movie.
First and last time, for sure.
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To be more precise, Sacha is an entertainer.
This debate is like who is the bigger idiot in “Dumb and Dumber” ...Jim Carrey or Jeff Daniels?
Suuuuuuuure.
...into a portion of a television studio which had been furnished and decorated to look like a hotel room.
What is that, some kind of porno shoot?
Why would L.Ron agree to do a bedroom scene with him?
lol..memo to RP: being a fraud is Cohen's schtick.
The right-wing politician
Not surprising that the Daily Mail doesn't know the difference between a conservative and a libertarian.
Again, this presumes L.Ron wasn't showing up to do a bedroom scene.
Yeah wRONg PAUL could have been looking for some bedroom action with Sacha Baron Cohen....but got camera shy and was unable to perform. No lead in the pencil so to speak. Then stomped out in embarrassment. Too funny.
So it wasn’t just for his antiwar moonbat stance that the left loved wRong afterall.
Maybe Bruno promised L.Ron a meeting with his hero Osama been Layden. ;)
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