![]() ![]() In fact, restrictions on gun use and ownership in Israel are far-reaching.ĭavid Frum, a Jewish conservative who writes for the Atlantic magazine, tweeted that Cohen “repeatedly takes advantage of people’s affection and respect for the State of Israel to deceive and humiliate them.”Īllison Kaplan Sommer, an Israeli American who writes for the liberal Israeli daily Haaretz, was critical, too. In real life, gun rights activists have frequently - and often erroneously - cited Israel as an example of a country with few restrictions on gun rights. Walsh said he thought, “Well, this is kind of crazy, but it is Israel and Israel is strong on defense.”Ĭohen apparently intended the segment to be an expose of zealous support for gun ownership, although it could be seen as an example of blind support of everything Israel. Walsh said he had been asked to read a story off a teleprompter about a 4-year-old Israeli who grabbed a gun and subdued a terrorist. ![]() Walsh told CNN that Cohen had fooled him into participating by telling him that he was “getting an award from some Israeli TV station because I’m a great supporter of Israel.” For a segment that did not air Sunday night, Roy Moore - whose bid for a Senate seat in Alabama fell apart over old allegations of soliciting minors - also said he had fallen for the Israel-award thing. The entire segment appears to have taken advantage of the targets’ pro-Israel sympathies. ![]() Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., acquits himself well: “Typically, members of Congress don’t just hear a story about a program and indicate whether they support it or not,” he tells Morad. (Van Cleave stars in a Barney-like instructional video in which he sings a variant of “Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”: “Aim at the head, shoulders, not the toes, not the toes.”) Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and Joe Wilson, R-S.C. So do Trent Lott, the former senator from Mississippi Reps. The gun rights activists, Philip Van Cleave and Larry Pratt, endorse Morad’s “Kinderguardian” program. In Sunday’s show, Cohen as Morad dupes a few current and recent politicians, as well as gun rights activists, into supporting a fictitious initiative to arm toddlers. Erran Morad, a purported terrorism expert. Having created Borat (a dimwitted Kazakh journalist) and Ali G (a dimwitted hip-hop journalist), Cohen now rolls out Israeli Col. In “Who is America?,” a show that made its debut Sunday night on Showtime, the British Jewish comic returns with the shtick that made him famous - disguising himself in order to prank the famous and not-so-famous. Also, is it just me, or did it look like George Clooney wasn’t happy to see someone stealing his prank thunder? You’ve made a powerful enemy this day, Sacha Cohen.WASHINGTON ( JTA) - Sacha Baron Cohen is back, and he is taking aim at a strain of “pro-Israel” thought that has both delighted and unsettled many American Jews: the unconditional love engendered by the country among deeply conservative Americans. It goes without saying, but pretending to kill old ladies is my favorite kind of comedy. ![]() Anyway, tonight is not about her, it’s about me.” At least 400 in this room and at least 500 watching on TV. The cane that woman forced on me was clearly defective and I’ve got lots of witnesses. If you decide to get the lawyers involved, I will take you down just like I did your granny. “I’d like to say a few words to her family: Do not try to sue me. Thus, she’ll probably make the Oscars In Memoriam segment,” he deadpanned. But on the bright side, what a great way to go, giving an award to me. “Grace Cullington is the oldest, no, sorry, was the oldest surviving ,” Baron Cohen said following the fall. I hear Seth MacFarlane had something similar planned for the Oscars, but the producers cut it when the singing and dancing lasted 37 minutes. Then Cohen knocked “Grace Cullington” and her wheelchair off stage, pretending to kill her. Cohen then scamped around the stage in a Chaplin impersonation while the audience “ahhhed” with cuteness. But it wasn’t just a big night for extraneous modifiers, it was also the scene of a Cohen prank, that scamp!Īn elderly, wheelchair-bound woman introduced as 87-year-old “Grace Cullington, Charlie Chaplin’s oldest surviving co-star,” who was said to have worked with Chaplin in City Lights when she was five years old, presented Cohen with a cane that she said was the cane Chaplin used during the film. Something called the BAFTA Jaguar Britannia Awards was held over the weekend, where Sacha Baron Cohen was presented the Charlie Chaplin Britannia for Excellence in Comedy. ![]()
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