borat the rabble rouser

Da Ali G show is one of the most brilliant shows to come out in years. Nary an episode broadcast leaves me without tears in my eyes from some episode of laughing. Among my favorite characters on the show (and always good for a huge laugh) is Borat, the third most popular man in Kazhakstan, on an adventure to discover a bit of America in each episode of his show.

Sometimes he get's a tad "controversial". In the show's second season, Borat got in front of a crowd at a Country-Western bar and sang a song called "Throw the Jew Down the Well" which was a tad anti-semitic in it's overtones. If it wasn't done for comedic effect and Sasha Baron Cohen, the comedian that plays Borat, wasn't Jewish, it might have been really bad...as it was, it showed a barfull of rednecks as a bunch of anti-semetic asswipes.

Well, Borat's done it again. According to the article, he somehow fanagled himself into being invited to sing the national anthem at a rodeo...I'll quote the article for the rest of the story:

After telling the crowd he supported America's war on terrorism, he said, "I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards ... And may George W Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq." He then sang a garbled version of "The Star-Spangled Banner."


The Roanoke Times reported that the crowd turned "downright nasty." One observer said "If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him."


Cohen and his film crew were escorted out of the Salem Civic Center and told to leave the premises.


"Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot," rodeo producer Bobby Rowe told the paper. "They loaded up the van and they screeched out of there."

Man, I can't wait to see that episode.