Kazakhstan Pulls Plug on Borat: Situation Critical
The incendiary incidents in the ongoing free speech struggle between Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego, Borat, and the Kazahkstan government continue. Kazahkstan denied access to the "newsman's" website ending in .kz:
A government-appointed organization regulating Web sites that end in the .kz domain name for Kazakhstan confirmed on Tuesday it had suspended Cohen's site.
"We've done this so he can't badmouth Kazakhstan under the .kz domain name," Nurlan Isin, President of the Association of Kazakh IT Companies, told Reuters. "He can go and do whatever he wants at other domains."
When previously confronted by government authorities, Borat responded:
.... on the www.borat.kz site in character, saying: "I have no connection to Mr. Cohen and fully support my government's position to sue this Jew (Cohen)."
In typical vein, he went on: "Please, captain of industry, I invite you to come to Kazakhstan, where we have incredible natural resources, hard working labor and some of the cleanest prostitutes in all of Central Asia."
In another surprising development, despite the fact that this story is five hours old, there has been no comment from Ann Coulter, recently silenced by University of Connecticut students chanting, "You suck."
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