The Parts Left Out of Borat by Paul Krassner at Huffington Post

The Parts Left Out of Borat
by Paul Krassner
Huffington Post
December 8, 2006

"There are a few private jokes in "Borat." One, which might merely be an example of a low-budget flick, is that the same bedspread appears in three different hotel room scenes. Another is that the anti-Semitic protagonist from Kazakhstan occasionally speaks fluent Hebrew throughout the movie.

An Associated Press dispatch referred to him as a "Jew-fearing journalist" and stated: "In the end, it appeared that naked wrestling, toilet jokes and anti-Semitic satire hold universal appeal." In fact, Rob Eshman, editor of the Jewish Journal, confesses that he laughed so hard he spit out his gum. Moreover, the following excerpt from a review in The Jewish Week was subsquently forwarded on the Internet by an anti-Semitic listserv:

"The first time I saw Borat I fell madly in love with him. For a journalist who writes about culture in a major Jewish newspaper, seeing this fictional, mustachioed, deeply offensive, thoroughly anti-Semitic man for the first time on HBO two years ago was more than entertainment. It was a clarion call....Played with fierce doggedness by Israeli-born comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat--supposedly a reporter from Kazakhstan who travels the United States asking his hapless interviewees the most unthinkable of questions--was that mythological beast that all young Jews secretly dream about, a character cool and commanding who puts, if only for a moment, all things Jewish at the cutting edge of popular culture."

Well, any movie that serves to unite Jews and anti-Semites can't be all bad. Certainly, both sides appreciate, for different reasons, Borat's explanation that the reason he and Azamat--his insanely fat "producer"--drive rather than fly across America in this documentary-style parody of a buddy movie is because he's scared that Jews would hijack their plane "like they did on 9/11."

..........SNIP"

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Jewish. It's a stunning piece of work, actually. I'll see it again on Pay-per-view.

the new cover of National Geographic? What exoitic & funny people those Red State Americans are....

find them and watch--I think they're out on DVD now. You'll see some BORAT on those as well. The first time I saw him singing "EEN My Country, there is PROB-Lem/Throw the Jew Down the Well" I was flummoxed, horrified, and astounded...but it is sick-funny, at the same time, that he could, through sheer force of his perverse BORAT personality, convince people to willingly go along with hate speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3IMTJjzfo

along with him. By the end of the clip, most everyone was throwing the Jew down the well.

I check periodically when Ali G comes on. I'd seen it before the movie, but was uncomfortable for those being interviewed. After the movie, I starting paying more attention to the reactions of those who SBC is interviewing and now "get it."

Yes, he is a genius.

And told them that in heeeeeees con-tree, they didn't keeeeeeel the fox....and then he went on to say how they killed bears! And dogs!!! For FUN!!! The outrage was just so INTENSE!!! Then, he gets some asshat foxhunter to agree that killing the fox makes one feel like a MAN! I think that one is up on You Tube, too, somewhere...the guy just knows how to pull strings/jerk chains and at the same time, rely on the innate politeness of people who will cut a foreign visitor a lot of slack, so that he will take away a good impression of the society he's visiting!

I have to laugh at how he violates the "closeness" regs and the "kissing" regs of UK/US society, and the folks he's snuggling up to, grabbing their ballsacs playfully, and kissing, are trying desperately to back the guy off while not wanting to appear rude....the real actors in his bits are his "victims" and he plays them like a violin!