I have the Borat song “Throw the Jew Down the Well” stuck in my head, which is bad. Because I don’t want to be at work picking up some printouts and, without thinking, start singing to myself, “Throw the Jew down the well…”
What if, while I’m singing that, a Jewish co-worker comes by and says to me, “Hey! It isn’t right to want to throw me down a well!”
And my only response would be, “But I want my country to be free.”
“Then you’d better find some other means to that end than throwing Jews down wells. Good day, sir.”
I don’t think my company hires Jews, though.
I really don’t think the entire bar is anti-semitic. I think it really just shows how open the people of the United States are to people who have different customs. Seriously what a tolerant society. The liberals should be happy that his resolution for peace was accepted. Like the liberal agenda is any different. “They just want Iran to nuke Israel. So their country can be free.”
C’mon, that’s obviously what they’re singing at the UN. Substitute “The Med” for “The Well” and you have it exactly.
Oh, and could you edit the title of your post to eliminate the possessive apostrophe from “well’s” (sic.)?
So Borat goes to a small dead end bar full of dead end people and tests whether they will go along with his little anti-Semitic tune, or if they would get hostile. I can see a number of problems with the underlying assumption that if they go along with the anti-Semitic song they are all a bunch of raging redneck bigots from the back woods. First, I must point out that most audiences are rather polite and rarely attack the entertainment, even very bad entertainment or a set up. Second, most crowds can be lead into doing all sorts of things. It only takes firm leadership. Even intelligent people get lead into all sorts of stupidity just so they don’t go against the flow.
At the beginning you could clearly see much of the crowd looking around at others for quos on how to respond. There were about a half dozen looking around suspiciously. They were obviously suspicious that Cohen was putting them on. If someone had offered, early on, that Cohen’s guitar would have sounded just the same sticking out of his ass. The crowd would have turned on Cohen.
I’m amazed at what Cohen gets away with, but I’m also amazed with what con men get away with. Film is an unfair medium. You only get to see this outrageous bullshit when it works. I’d love to see the outtakes where someone calls him on it.
That didn’t even make the movie. Try checking out the movie and commenting on what was actually presented.
You should really just shut up about this kind of thing since you’ve converted to a tard protestant religion. Good luck with that though.
I had the same problem as you, Frank J, when the South Park movie came out a few years ago. There were some very catchy tunes in that movie, and once in a while I found myself absently singing “Uncle F**ker” as I walked along busy city streets.
Not a good thing.