Sacha Baron Cohen

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4 hours ago, 47of74 said:

Question: Does it make me a bad person to wish that Mr. Cohen had duped my own reich wing state house representative into doing something similar so that she would have to resign? 

Come sit by me, I'd dance a jig if my guy got caught up in this mess and quit. 

*points to the tea pitcher and extra glass, pulls a chair over*

 

 

[Maggie Mae]

You all are lucky that you only have 1 state representative (or state senator, or us senator/congressperson) that you identify as riech wing. 

I've got a few state reps I'd love to see go down. I'd like to see our senile old man Congressman go down. I'd like to see our Koch appointed out of state Senator go down. Alas, I only have a former governor who got duped. Her career in politics has long been over so, meh. I'd actually be more excited to see some of our weirdo state senators and state house reps get duped. 

Or the lady who runs a republican womens club. It's so weird to stalk someones Facebook because they are in a position like that, find out they have no issues with being openly stupid, racist, anti-Semitic, and a conspiracy theorist; and then have them sit next to you at Pilates

[Maggie Mae]

I thought Roy Moore was a bit of a let down last night. 

The Rap Battle amused me. 

The MAGA guy dressed up in a dress, tiara, and fake vagina ... wow.  The excitement of the guy who said "I will be a pinata" was amusing. I'm betting the other guy walked out. How does SBC keep a straight face? Guy is a pro!

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[47of74]

4 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

 

Complete with Nazi on Nazi Blow Job....

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Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen duped former Maricopa Country, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio into saying he would accept oral sex from President Trump.

On the latest episode of his undercover project, “Who is America?” Cohen, disguised as a Finnish YouTube star, asked Arpaio a series of sexual questions that Arpaio later described as “rather bizarre.”

“If Donald Trump calls you up after this and says, ‘Sheriff Joe, I want to offer you an amazing blowjob,’ would you say yes?” Cohen asked Arpaio.

“I may have to say yes,” Arpaio responded.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go wash my eyes out with carbolic acid and puke my guts out over the mental images that has provoked.

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Man not smart

 

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1 hour ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

 

I was hoping they would get Clarke on!!!

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/arts/television/sacha-baron-cohen-lawsuits-who-is-america.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Sacha Baron Cohen Pranked Me, Can I Sue? Yes. Win? Not So Much.
 

Spoiler

 

By Sopan Deb

Aug. 19, 2018

Sacha Baron Cohen, disguised as an antiterrorism expert, coaxed Daniel Roberts, an ardent gun rights activist, into biting on a sex toy, and other embarrassing acts, while being filmed. Mr. Roberts thought he was part of a training video. Instead, he was being played for laughs, as part of an episode of Mr. Cohen’s Showtime series, “Who Is America?”

On Thursday, Mr. Roberts said in an interview that he is “exploring every avenue” to pursue legal action. He is far from alone.

Jason Spencer resigned his position as a state lawmaker in Georgia after Mr. Cohen convinced him to yell racial epithets in a similar situation. He has said he “sought legal counsel” too. Roy Moore, the former Alabama Senate candidate, suggested he’d go to court as well.

But would any of them have a good chance of winning if they sued?

After all, Mr. Cohen and his team were deceitful in how they lured them and others into participating with the show, which aired its most recent episode Sunday night. Former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh said he was told he was receiving an award for his support of Israel and was prompted to read scripted remarks that advocated arming small children. He might have a claim, no?

Not necessarily, according to legal experts, who say that in most of the cases, it seems that prospective prank victims signed releases designed to indemnify Mr. Cohen and his producers from legal claims.

“If I were a lawyer for a potential plaintiff who came into me and said this happened, my first question would be, ‘Did you sign a piece of paper?’” said John Rosenberg, a media and entertainment lawyer.

Mr. Roberts said that he didn’t remember whether he signed one for his segment, but that it was “highly likely.” Mr. Walsh said he had signed one.

Mr. Cohen has long been a magnet for lawsuits for his work. People who were pranked on the television show “Da Ali G Show,” (2000-2004) and in the films “Borat” (2006) and “Brüno,” (2009) have also sued, though seldom successfully.

The difficulties arise often because the agreements people sign are purposely vague and there is indemnifying language in the fine print, according to Domenic Romano, another entertainment lawyer.

“These releases basically solicit the consent of the participant and say, ‘Look, no inconsistent oral statement is going to be considered here. This is the entire agreement in this release. You’ve entered into it voluntarily. You’ve had an opportunity to review it with counsel,’” said Mr. Romano.

Showtime did not respond to a request to review the “Who Is America?” release.

But past documents from Mr. Cohen’s work give an indication for what the wording might be.

In 2009, Richelle Olsen, an executive director of a nonprofit in Palmdale, Calif., sued Mr. Cohen for an altercation during filming for “Brüno” that she said caused an injury. According to court papers, the release for Ms. Olsen — a “Standard Location Agreement” — stipulated that she had not relied upon any promises as to “the nature of the Film or the identity, behavior or qualifications of any of the cast members,” and that she was signing the paperwork “with no expectations or understandings concerning the conduct offensive or otherwise, of anyone involved with this film.”

Ms. Olsen’s suit was tossed in 2011.

There is also a distinction between public and private citizens. Public figures like Mr. Moore and Mr. Spencer must clear a much higher bar to bring a defamation suit.

“Cohen can rely on the First Amendment of the United States constitution, the right to free speech,” Mr. Romano said. “Second, when it comes to public figures, there is a higher standard. They have to show actual malice, if they’re going to make a claim they’ve been defamed. Third, there are anti-SLAPP statutes.”

“SLAPP” stands for “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.” Anti-SLAPP statutes, as of earlier this year, exist in 28 states. (Two of those states — Washington and Minnesota — recently declared them unconstitutional.) These laws exist to make it easier to dismiss legal claims filed in free speech cases that concern topics the public might be interested in — a statute Mr. Cohen used to defend against the lawsuit from Ms. Olsen and others.

Legal experts said the topics of Mr. Cohen’s show — frequently mocking political figures and making light of current events — would qualify.

“To the extent the show discusses topics that are newsworthy, it will be protected free speech,” Padmaja Chinta, a lawyer who specializes in intellectual property issues, said in an email.

In theory, Mr. Roberts might sue Mr. Cohen for fraud, arguing he was induced into an agreement by being misled. There’s an issue here though.

“What’s he going to claim are his damages? ‘I made a fool out of myself?’” said Mr. Rosenberg.

“If I come on to a television show believing that it’s a serious, political, issues-oriented format instead of this sort of satirical presentation,” he said, “and I make a racist or misogynistic comment, Sacha Baron Cohen didn’t defraud me into making that statement.”

Another potential legal avenue is to argue that the show defamed a person or, as allowed in some states, cast him or him in a false light. Defamation, however, requires a false statement. In the case of “Who Is America?,” no one who has threatened to sue has said that Mr. Cohen made a false statement about them. The issue instead has been their own words or actions.

“A person cannot defame themselves,” Mr. Rosenberg said.

False light claims, which are rare, center on whether a person has been embarrassed by being portrayed in a misleading way. In Mr. Walsh’s case, he has contended that the piece was edited to create a misimpression that he was endorsing a policy of arming kindergartners in the United States. According to Mr. Walsh, he was actually told that the remarks he read off a teleprompter concerned a program in Israel.

Representative Dana Rohrabacher of Calif., who also expressed support for the policy on camera, said he actually would not support such a program. He called Mr. Cohen’s actions “fraud.”

Among the prior lawsuits against Mr. Cohen that have not succeeded was one filed by a pair of college students at the University of South Carolina. While intoxicated, they made several racist and sexist comments on camera for “Borat,” in which Mr. Cohen plays a journalist from Kazakhstan. A judge tossed the suit in 2007, citing California’s anti-SLAPP statute.

A Maryland-based driving instructor named Michael Psenicska sought damages based on how he was presented in “Borat.” He was filmed in a segment giving Mr. Cohen’s character a bizarre driving lesson. A judge tossed the suit and the resulting appeal was dismissed as well in 2009.

But the suits haven’t all failed. In 2012, a Palestinian grocer named Ayman Abu Aita settled a defamation claim for an undisclosed amount against Mr. Cohen after he accused the comedian of falsely labeling him a terrorist in “Brüno.”

In this case, unlike some of the others, the lawsuit revolved around whether Mr. Cohen’s portrayal was false.

“One critical distinction appears to be that it was Cohen’s words there, i.e., his branding of Aita as a terrorist,” Mr. Rosenberg said in an email, “and not Aita’s own comments, that provided the basis for his defamation claim.”

And, as a lawyer for Mr. Aita noted at the time, Mr. Aita had not done what so many other targets had done — signed a release.

 

 

Also, dafuq did I just read?

 

More absurd gun rhetoric:

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2018/08/19/jan-brewer-latest-sacha-baron-cohen-who-america-target/1039580002/

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Man not smart thinks humans were trading rocks hundreds of millions years ago

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1 hour ago, AmazonGrace said:

Man not smart thinks humans were trading rocks hundreds of millions years ago

But that’s just silly! Everybody knows the Earth was only created 6000 years ago...

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The last episode aired and they never showed Sarah Palin. But there was OJ Simpson and some MAGA dude whom they convinced to blow up a women's marcher.

http://www.reviewjournal.ca/sacha-baron-cohens-who-is-america-targets-oj-simpson-in-season-finale/

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Target: Glenn, Darren and Cody
Character: Lt. Erran Morad, anti-terror expert
What Happened: "Today, the Biggest terror threat in America comes from radical liberals called antifa," Morad says in an intro. Hoping to find "a warrior to help me on my mission," Morad goes to "America's heartland" to interview one of three contestants, all of whom have already proven their courage by anonymously attacking women, immigrants and homos on the internet." Asked who the dangerous terror group in America is, the trio agree it's "antifa," whom Glenn describes as the "anti-fascists who want to take down everything our current president is doing right." Asked what will happen to America if the fascists are eliminated, Glenn says: "We will become a shithole country." Morad then puts them through a training of "how to become a liberal," asking questions like how long quinoa needs to cook ("I don't even know what that is," says one) and then brings up Lena Dunham, saying that liberals use questions like "What is your favorite episode of Girls?" as a "code word." He then describes a specific episode and advises them to use it as an answer and puts them to the test of "acting like a liberal" by quizzing them at length about the characters and storylines of Girls. "What is the aim of the #MeToo movement?" Morad asks Cody, who replied: "Take over the world. … Kill all the men." Morad also then says they have to learn to "compliment" other men to pass as a liberal and then puts them through a training on "how to be a radical lesbian," giving them specific phrases to use like "I hate penises." Finally, Morad says that to pass as liberals, they have to prove they aren't Trump supporters. "That will be hard, but I will do it," Glenn says, while they all take turns hitting a Trump dummy with dildos as Glenn then simulates anal sex with the dummy. So who wins? Glenn, who wins a trip to San Francisco to put his skills to the test at a women's march and is told to push a button that will make a  small detonation device attached to a person's clothing explode in the name of "foiling a terror plot." He does, and then says: "I've never participated in someone's death. … I feel queasy."

 

That's like the Milgram experiment.

Gangraping Trump doll to own the libs.

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The Trump doll video in the thread is NSFW

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[47of74]

Moore is taking a page out of the Fuck Face book and suing for Butthurt in the First Degree...excuse me, I meant defamation and IIED.

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Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and his wife, Kayla, filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday for $95 million against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen after mocking Moore on a recent episode of his Showtime series.

The episode aired July 29 with Cohen submitting an unwitting Moore to a test to determine if he was a pedophile. On the show, Cohen determined that Moore failed the test.

The lawsuit also names Showtime Networks Inc. and CBS Corporation as defendants.

The joke played off accusations made against Moore last year in the final month of his U.S. Senate campaign won by Doug Jones. Moore has repeatedly denied all accusations made by women against him in The Washington Post and AL.com.

 

[Cartmann99]

8 hours ago, 47of74 said:

Moore is taking a page out of the Fuck Face book and suing for Butthurt in the First Degree...excuse me, I meant defamation and IIED.

 

Wait, didn't he have to sign a release before they started taping the show? 

Also, $95 million!?! Was the amount in the first draft listed as all the moneys?