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to: Gary Britt
from: John Beamish
date: 2006-11-03 09:17:04
subject: Re: Borat

From: "John Beamish" 

So it's okay to be racist if you sign a waiver?

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:20:15 -0500, Gary Britt
 wrote:

> Phil Payne wrote:
>> http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/ThursdayTicket/2006/11/02/2208251-sun.html
>>
>> Meanwhile, there's nothing that can prepare you for Borat in Cultural
>> Learnings of America entering a gun shop and asking "What kind of gun
>> would
>> you recommend to kill a Jew?" The blithe response: "I'd
recommend a 9mm
>> or a
>> Glock automatic." Did the guy not really hear the question,
or is it the
>> kind of question the gunshop owner hears all the time?
>>
>>
> They have TV cameras and he had to sign a release to be on the "show".
> Americans and all people everywhere love to play along to be on TV.
> They were making a comedy and they wanted a role in the show.  So they
> provide the straight lines to Borat's comedy.  People will also gladly
> proclaim dog food tastes tests better than prime rib, if it will get
> them on a TV commercial.
>
> No difference, except for idiot reporters not smart enough to
> understand, and those who repeat the idiot reporters statements.
>
> Gary

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