Even if it was proposed sex, the woman was 24 years old and Guilinai isn’t married. Borat claiming she’s 15 years old is the smear.
Again, I am not disagreeing. What Cohen (Borat) did was definitely a smear job and I hope Giuliani sues the hell out of him.
People need to watch the movie.
The whole premise of his movie was that he was trying to redeem himself at home by presenting Mike Pence with a new bride—his 15 year old daughter. The daughter was played by a very cute 24 year old actress.
If you saw the first movie you know Cohen is pretty good at talking unsuspecting people into doing stuff and saying stuff that is inappropriate.
I watched it the other night. The entire scene with Rudy consisted of two sections. One section was in a fake interview. The girl was acting as a reported and she was all nervous about interviewing Rudy. He tried to calm her down. He WAS doing some “calming down” touching that I thought was not anything I’ve ever seen a politician do with a young female reporter. My wife WAS a young female reporter (25 years ago) and she was uneasy about it. There were few edits in that part.
I worked in video editing for a while—at a local level, not movies or anything like that. But I recognize edits.
The second part of the scene was when they went into the bedroom. It wasn’t “clear” why they went in there. There was nothing inappropriate in terms of conversation. There were a LOT of edits. So, I tend to believe Rudy when he describes what he was doing.
The part when Borat comes in and says she is 15 is part of the script—not an actual accusation.
The Borat character was dressed in a nut-sack and was telling Rudy he could “take him instead.”
If it were anyone one else, no one would be up in arms—as the scene, in the context of the movie, was funny. If you thought the rest of this “schitck” is funny.
People on FR who defend their republican “heroes” need to relax and understand this was all part of a script. If you do go watch the parts with Rudy, watch them all. The first part was, as the kids say, “Creepy AF.” The second part was so edited and fast, it was harmless.
But like everything else this next week we are seeing people respond viscerally, with...as the guy said, “their lizard brain.”
Freepers these days act like the scorpion crossing the river on the frogs back is going to change their nature. The crap being thrown around is the scorpion. And you guys are the frog saying, “Why did you do that?”
Its in their nature, man. Its their nature.