Posted on 03/24/2012 1:12:26 AM PDT by Zajko
Kazakhstan's shooting team has been left stunned after a comedy national anthem from the film Borat was played at a medal ceremony at championships in Kuwait instead of the real one.
The song was produced by UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for the film, which shows Kazakhs as backward and bigoted.
Footage of Thursday's original ceremony posted on YouTube shows gold medallist Maria Dmitrienko listening to the anthem without emotion and finally smiling as it ends.
The spoof song praises Kazakhstan for its superior potassium exports and for having the cleanest prostitutes in the region.
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Unbelievable that this could be done by accident (even if it is Kuwait) - can also be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&feature=share&v=4QwiY35pr6I
She handled the situation pretty well. I think if I won the gold medal and some idiots played a parody of the Star Spangled Banner I would have raised hell.
Guaranteed, this guy had no clue that wasn't the real "anthem". Outside of the US, Canada, and a few W. Europe countries, nobody's ever heard their alleged this year's "National Anthem".
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I guess it depends on whether she understands English or not (though wouldn’t she have wondered why ‘her’ anthem was in English, anyway?) - if she does, I think lines like
‘Kazakhstan’s prostitutes, cleanest in the region / except of course for Turkmenistan’s / Come grasp the mighty penis of our leader... (etc)’
...might have suggested to her that not all was quite right.
praises Kazakhstan for its superior potassium exports and for having the cleanest prostitutes in the region
........I don’t care what they say this is funny.
That is some funny sh!t right there.
This is a riot - saw it last night on Malkin’s Twitchy feed.
Watching it now it looks like she didn’t understand any of the words - but still a riot!
(that country has a goofy looking flag :>)
I don’t tihnk I would have handled it as politely as she did
The best part of the story:
“The film outraged people in Kazakhstan and was eventually banned in the country.”
“Reports say the film is also banned in Kuwait.”
Someone managed to kill two birds with one stone! LOL!
It’s like if they played the theme from Team America for our athletes.
Then again that song was awesome and somewhat truthful.
Kazakhstan home of Tinshein swimming pool.
It’s length thirty meter and width six meter.
Filtration system a marvel to behold.
It remove 80 percent of human solid waste.
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Kazakhstan friend of all except Uzbekistan.
They very nosey people with bone in their brain.
Kazakhstan industry best in the world.
We incented toffee and trouser belt.
Kazakhstan’s prostitutes cleanest in the region.
Except of course Turkmenistan’s
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Come grasp the might phenis of our leader.
From junction with the testes to tip of its face!
I agree, it’s funny... but how would you feel if they tried that sh*t with the Star Spangled Banner?
I really need more stories like this, it cracks me up!
A part of me thinks this is funny (it is). Another part of me knows that if I were the one standing on the podium, after years of effort in training for an event, listening to a similar parody of my own national anthem, I wouldn’t find it amusing in the slightest. I guess that makes me a bit of a hypocrite: but it is still funny.
On a side note: can you imagine the situation had the roles of Kazakhstan and Kuwait been reversed here? i.e. if it was the Kazakh authorities who’d made a similar daft mistake with the Kuwaiti national anthem, replacing it with something irreverent and insulting to their nation, culture and/or religion?
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