Misguided American journalists once again get a Borat-Kazakhstan story wrong. The Associated Press is all over the visit to the United States by the Kazakhstan President, Nursultan Nazarbayev and the inability of Kazakh authorities to deal with the alter ego of Sacha Baron Cohen.
Kazakhs Counter Comic With Ad Campaign :
AP) Gleaming hotels, the region's best pastrami sandwiches and the planet's largest population of wolves: these are things Kazakhs want the world to know about their country -not the outrageous claims of the British comedian who portrays them as primitive and bigots...
...Authorities say the campaign was meant to coincide with President Nursultan Nazarbayev's visit to the United States, where he met with President Bush on Friday. But it also comes as comic Sacha Baron Cohen, creator of a fictional Kazakh reporter known as Borat, was launching a full-length movie based on the character.
...The homophobic, misogynistic, English-mangling Borat - who portrays Kazakhs as addicted to horse urine, fond of shooting dogs and viewing rape and incest as respectable hobbies -has mortified the government of this former Soviet republic...
Meanwhile, on Friday, Borat was denied access to the White House while Nazarbayev slummed with United States President George W. Bush.
The refusal of Bush minions to admit this responsible journalist to the White House grounds is inexcusable.
Jagshemash, Paul!
Posted by: Dave Diamond | September 29, 2006 at 10:20 PM
Aww, Paul. Jes' ignore them ol' Kazakhstanis. Hell, they are just like colored folk that just don't like coon jokes. It's all in good fun. I mean ain't anyofus mean um any harm. They just get all mean an worked up over a coupla jokes is all. No sensa humor.
Posted by: Big Bill | October 02, 2006 at 02:47 AM