In a segment on his latest show Who Is America?, Sacha Baron Cohen, in his adopted persona as an Israeli anti-terrorism expert, interviews failed Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore and demonstrates a new device supposedly invented by the Israeli army that can detect pedophiles, something that Moore has been accused of being. The interview does not go well.
(Dan Coverly’s Speed Bump)
Stephen Colbert comments on the traumatized reaction of a conservative who attended the St. Louis rally at which democratic socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke and found herself disturbingly attracted to the progressive message that she heard.
As Colbert says, god is a socialist.
I have not been following this story closely but Samantha Bee gives some background on what it is all about.
… and yet they get elected to office, as a segment on Sacha Baron Cohen’s new show demonstrates.
I came across this moving and yet funny eulogy given by comedian Billy Crystal at the funeral of Muhammad Ali that I thought worth sharing. I hadn’t known that they were so close for so long.
Sacha Baron Cohen has a new TV series premiering on Showtime called Who Is America? in which he does his trademark shtick of pretending to be someone with views similar to the person he is interviewing and getting them to lower their guard and say what they really think. And what he reveals about gun rights advocates in the US in this 10—minute promotional video has to be seen to be believed.
It is always dangerous to take these kinds of videos at face value because by highly selective editing, one can make the target look ridiculous, appear to endorse views they do not hold, or look outright nuts. But I would like to see how the people shown on this video explain away or otherwise walk back the outrageous things they said.
As this Doonesbury comic strip shows, the Trump force is strong within the cult members. They are the ones that the Democratic party establishment is trying to woo with its ‘moderate’ and ‘centrist’ Republican-lite neoliberal message, rather than seeking out those who are disaffected with the system.
