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'If Michael Moore pulled this kind of thing--- taking people out of context and misrepresenting himself in order to manipulate them in order to make him rich--- which is essentially what Moore does do in "Roger and Me" and his other movies-- then people (at least conservatives) wouldn't be so easy on him."

One is a spoof and a comedy and the other claims to be a documentary. Why not compare night and day? Compare it to a Scary Movie or an Airplane spoof and you'd be spot on. By all accounts a funny movie and I will always err on the side of anything that is not pc.

One is a spoof and a comedy and the other claims to be a documentary. Why not compare night and day? Compare it to a Scary Movie or an Airplane spoof and you'd be spot on. By all accounts a funny movie and I will always err on the side of anything that is not pc.

You bring up a reasonable point, but I think your distinction doesn't apply here... Comedy spoofs like "Scary Movie" generally either don't use real people, or the real people are in on it, or the real people are fooled but not made to look like jackasses. In fact, "Borat" is trying to make many of the same points as Moore-- rednecks are racists and anti-semites, Americans are idiots, etc. Some of them just happen to be at the expense of people from other countries, so that makes it funny.

When you imply by saying "I will always err on the side of anything that is not pc" that anything that's not PC is to be cheered, well, first of all, "Borat" is ultra PC--- as making fun of the stupidity of Joe Six-Pack is a favored PC past time. That's why the Sundance Film Festival, the NY Times and other leftist forums love it. Can you name one thing not PC about it? Come on! Granted, it makes people FEEL they're anti-PC rebel mavericks for enjoying it, but that's not the same thing as it being anti-PC; in fact, it's the opposite.

Secondly, not everything that's not PC is good or funny; the white nationalist duo Prussian Blue with those two cute but racist girls is not PC, but it isn't good either.

Compare it to a Scary Movie or an Airplane spoof and you'd be spot on.

That's not the best comparison. What people are objecting to is the false pretence and the deception. Nobody in Scary Movie or Airplane can say that they didn't know that the movie was going to be fiction and over-the-top.

Apparently that's not the case with this movie. "Borat" or "Ali G." or whatever he calls himself may get the releases by misrepresenting himself. Whether or not those deceived have a good legal case, they do have a point about his ethics.