Sacha Baron Cohen Didn’t Return to Humiliate Republicans. He’s Here to End Careers [via Esquire.com]

fikfreak:

ladytudorrose:

cannibality:

j0ules:

godnetwork:

mistavybe:

👆🏾👆🏾 This is the 10 minute preview clip of Sacha Baron Choen’s new show, “Who is America?”

👆🏾👆🏾 This is former Alabama judge, former US Senate candidate and alleged pedophile Roy Moore’s official statement about his involvement with “Who Is America?”.

👆🏾👆🏾 This is Republican former Illinois congressman turned radio host Joe Walsh trying to pre-emptively save his own ass after being duped by Cohen on “Who Is America?”.

👆🏾👆🏾 This is former Alaska governor (and former candidate for Vice President Of The United States) Sarah Palin trying to downplay being pranked by Cohen on “Who Is America?”.

👆🏾👆🏾 This is CNN’s official list of public officials who were pranked by Cohen during the shooting of this season of “Who Is America?”.

Lots of Conservatives are hopping mad and tweeting angrily about “gotcha journalism” right now since episode 1 aired on Showtime, but at the end of the day nothing will ever erase the fact that Sacha Baron Cohen got two current Republican members of Congress, and two former Republican members of Congress – ON VIDEO – to endorse arming Kindergarteners to defend against school shootings.

THESE PEOPLE TOOK THE INTERVIEW, SAID ALL THE THINGS AND SIGNED THE NDAs.

(And btw, Senator Bernie Sanders was also pranked on Episode 1 of “Who Is America?” but he seems unfazed by the experience. Perhaps because he just espoused his actual beliefs on camera, none of which are reprehensible or embarrassing lol.)

#WhoIsAmerica?

#ThatIsAll #KThanksBye

I’m screaming!!!!!!! In terror mostly but also because like these guys are morons. Especially Walsh lmao like ….

sacha baron cohen really just came out of the shadows to assassinate everyone and everything with 0 remorse, holy shit

This is…. powerful. He gets a lobbyist singing and dancing holding a machine gun with stuffed toy bits on it in a video to teach 3 year olds how to fire a gun. he is absolutely killing these people.

The first episode was great!

I laughed so hard at the first episode, and the way Bernie Sanders was looking at him was hilarious! He was just so confused by the fuckery and that made it funnier!

Sacha Baron Cohen Didn’t Return to Humiliate Republicans. He’s Here to End Careers [via Esquire.com]

asynca:

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Important distinction.

queeranarchism:

afloweroutofstone:

Matt Stone and Trey Parker have done more to make our generation crueler than nearly anyone else, because they can get away with it under the guise of “this is satire, duh”, not realizing that poorly-done satire only reinforces the cultural forces it is meant to mock. When 13 year-old-kids are watching South Park, they aren’t tuning in to the little infinitesimally small lessons supposedly being taught, they’re laughing at Timmy being severely disabled, they’re laughing at sexual harassment, they’re laughing at child abuse, they’re laughing at anti-semitism, they’re laughing at people who have had sex reassignment surgery.

And the “satire” is so often pathetically weak. There isn’t a single nativist in this entire country who can’t laugh at a “der takin er jerbs” joke, because those jokes don’t actually rebut or mock the arguments made by people opposed to immigration. It’s just saying a common political phrase in a funny voice. Is that how low the bar for “satire” has been set? There’s occasionally more effective satire on the show, but not nearly enough for it to be defended on the basis of its value as satire.

But if you try to explain any of this to die-hard South Park fans, they’ll completely blow it off. They think that the fact the show upsets me simply means that the show has accomplished its purpose, never actually questioning whether or not that purpose is a worthy one. That’s why the show is so insidious: it wraps itself in this cynical layer of self-containment that prevents it from ever being pointed out for what it is: a detriment to the type of society that any decent person wants to see. South Park is far more dangerous than the Westboro Baptist Church, because South Park is something that people accept and defend.

Yes. And there’s a whole genre of shows, news websites and media out there now whose ‘satire’ amount to LOL IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE ITS OFFENSIVE. That is not harmless, that is actively creating (and has created over the last decades) a culture in which bigots can thrive and feel like they never have to defend themselves.

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