Well that’s an interesting change of direction for Fox. Kennedy isn’t in the “news” department - she’s one of the high heeled harpies of propaganda. If she’s busting Rudy’s dusty old balls then something is happening over at Fox.
My Schadenfreudian Hero Rides Again…
I haven’t seen the movie, but I watched an interview with Colbert and SBC about it. He says he was hiding in a wardrobe and burst out of it to confront the Ghoul…
Ghouliani had a bodyguard with him who shook down the room first (while SBC was hiding in the closet), then left the room to stand guard outside the door, leaving the Ghoul alone with the girl, and assured that no uninvited guests would appear.
Oops…
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Some execs over there may be trying to avoid getting sucked into the Trump Maelstrom that threatens to swamp the rest of the GOP media fleet when he loses the election badly.
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Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, blew a gasket.
usually when a gasket is blown there is a leak of sorts somewhere.
Being I didn’t see smoke or fluid I guess it all depends on the depends what leaked, lol
bye bye rudy, (louder) BYE BYE RUDY
Do we have an obligation to be fair to people as awful as Trump and Ghouliani? It’s a conundrum.
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Rudy also had a former policeman as bodyguard standing outside the hotel room door so he wouldn’t be disturbed.
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Wait, Giuliani was upset by unfair questions from… Kennedy?
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No, but take it from me: You can repeat yourself.
with ghoulsie, how do you tell?
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I’ve been known to do that…especially after a few bourbons.
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Now there’s an idea.
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lol. The issue isn’t that he’s a boozehound. That’s just an excuse. The issue is that he wanted to be alone with a 15-year old girl (by law, too young to be drinking) and to engage in an activity (drinking) to lower her inhibitions. There’s no innocent explanation, including his desire to have another drink. High-functioning (a debatable description of Giuliani, granted) alcoholics aren’t necessarily not in control of their faculties. He’s a creepy old man who knew better.
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I don’t know either, and I never before thought of his work as being racist. Though raunchy, I always thought of his work as pushing the boundaries, and I confess that a lot of it (especially the first Borat film) made me laugh.
@centralasiaexpat’s strong feelings have made me pause and re-evaluate my opinions…though I also must admit, that I don’t think about SBC that often.
If we criticize SBC for his portrayal of Kazaks, should we also criticize him for his portrayal of rural America? I live in rural America, and I don’t (even remotely) consider myself to resemble what he puts in his films.
One thing that I find interesting is that neither SBC nor the actress who played his daughter spoke Kazakh in the film. Besides broken English, SBC spoke Hebrew and some Polish. Maria Bakalova, the Bulgarian actress who played his daughter, spoke Bulgarian. I originally assumed that they were speaking gibberish, but their use of both actual Hebrew and Bulgarian made their non-English conversations purposely nonsensical, which (to me) shows the intended absurdity of the film.
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I refuse to defend Giuliani. At the very best he’s a creep. My opinion of him is even much worse than that.
The only thing that I claim is that in that scene he was actually tucking in his shirt and not playing with his junk. It was never said by anyone that the girl was 15 years old (she’s actually 24) until after Borat stormed into the room.
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Short answer? Absolutely not.
Long answer? Absolutely fucking not.
I think that SBC revels in being obnoxious and, at times, offensive. I think he doesn’t particularly care who he offends or thinks about how people might take his behavior. I don’t think he’s necessarily looking to insult people with his caricatures, but he doesn’t care if the portrayal does come across as bigoted in some way if he thinks it will be satirically funny.
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Or perhaps he wants to stimulate us to think about why we’re feeling uneasy, and to reflect on what the offensive nature of his humor, and our reaction, says about our underlying culture. Few Americans have been exposed to Kazakstan, so we can immediately see the racism for what it is, whereas the more traditional forms tend to become invisible to many folks as part of the “background noise”.
We’re not the only ones who might be “blind to our faults” - I’ve actually seen humorists in other cultures use this same technique. As one example, standup comedians in Quebec illustrating the inherit prejudices of that culture. Here’s one who’s regarded as a national treasure who uses this technique:
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Okey-dokey.
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Fox host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery: “Rudy, you can forget about taking my daughter to the prom.”
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