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SACHA BARON COHEN is back and Sarah Palin is not amused.
The US former vice presidential nominee and ex-Alaska governor has launched an extraordinary attack on the British comedian for duping her to take part in his new show.
“Ya’ got me, Sacha. Feel better now?” wrote the mother of five, once synonymous with the Tea Party movement on the far-right of the Republican Party.
Cohen, she said, “heavily disguised himself as a disabled US veteran, fake wheelchair and all,” for the interview that she was told was a “legit” historical documentary by pay-to-view American television network Showtime.
“I join a long list of American public personalities who have fallen victim to the evil, exploitive, sick ‘humour’ of the British ‘comedian’ Sacha Baron Cohen, enabled and sponsored by CBS/Showtime,” she wrote.
Palin said she ultimately walked out of the interview and slammed what she called the Cambridge-educated comedian’s “foreign commentaries” that disrespected the US military and middle-class Americans.
She called on Cohen, CBS and Showtime to donate all proceeds from the interview to charities that support American veterans.
In a final indignity, Palin accused the production team of “purposefully” dropping her and her daughter off at the wrong Washington airport, “knowing” they would miss their return flights back to Alaska.
Cohen first found fame in Britain in 2000 with Da Ali G Show that saw his wannabe rapper character interview unsuspecting public figures. The show later transferred across the Atlantic.
He followed a similar format with hit movie characters that include bumbling Kazakh reporter Borat and gay Austrian fashionista Bruno.
His latest venture Who is America? is a satirical half-hour seven-episode series that premieres this Sunday on Showtime in the US.
“That’s the first time I’ve ever signed a waterboard,” former vice president Dick Cheney says in a teaser for the series tweeted by Cohen this week.
A voice off camera had asked Cheney to sign his “waterboard kit” – an empty water bottle.
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must have been proof read by somebody. from the journal.ie
^^^ Could have done with proofreading that one before you posted it Malcolm ;-)
thanks Glenn. can’t find my glasses
ahhh snap!
Its shite, Jim. But not as we know it
You can’t find your capital letters or your full stops either Malcolm.Except sometimes.
It took me ages as a child to perfect that double finger V salute. Now that we are all using our communicators to connect the only thing left is the transporter beam but with current broadband speeds it might be some time…
Live long and prosper
Hang about, does that mean than Folens now have to publish a new edition that so that parents are unable to pass on already paid for books to younger siblings? Or are such parents entitled tp a refund?
Am I the only one seeing ‘ Star WARS’?
I hate Star Trek
Why watch it then?
I know how he feels….
Have you met my friend Mr Spick?
aw man!!! wotz up in the world?
If this is what our kids are been though on school. I’m starting home education. They will go far known that shite.
Our
*knowing
I can’t understand why this is in a higher level English book. Are they imitating common core from the states or something?!
I also put on and not in. correction accepted.
being* taught*
Good luck with that home education, looks like you’re going to need it.
brilliant Dermot. @Gavin… you sure you don’t work for Folens?
Put down the drink there Gavin and start again..Lol.
is anybody else just seeing the headline and comments (no story) when they click?
I’m a Star Trek fan and I thought Spock said that???
Read it again
Interestingly enough one of the most common phrases associated with Star Trek ‘Beam me up Scotty’ was never actually said on the show.
You couldn’t possibly be a star trek fan and think that, Grogan.
Captain Spock was in Star Trek not Star Wars, double whammy
A lack of fiber as they say?
Or is that fibre, U.S. spell check…
The Ouija collection, Star Trek, life but not as we know it, boo…
You find in episode…
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