on Sacha Baron Cohen

One rabbi's discussion:

Kazahks find "Borat" deeply offensive for completely misrepresenting
their country as they see it.

Kazakhstan, second largest of the former Soviet republics, is not well
known to Westerners. .... Jews live there relatively undisturbed, and
President Nazarbayev personally intervened years ago on behalf of
thirteen Jews imprisoned by Iran on an espionage charge.

Did I mention that Kazakhstan's largest religious group (almost 50%)
is Muslim?

So what does this largely Muslim state do, in a week that saw Muslims
riot, murder, plunder and issue death-threats, to prove that the Pope
was wrong in suggesting that they were violent?

Kazakhs did not issue a fatwa against Baron Cohen. They did not
disrupt oil pipelines, torch movie theaters, or burn churches and
synagogues.

Instead they hired two PR firms to take their case directly to the
public with ads and articles bent on educating Americans about the
true Kazakhstan. What a novel idea - using rational discourse instead
of firebombs!


Cross-Currents ? Yitzchok Adlerstein
http://www.cross-currents.com/archiv...ok-adlerstein/

or
Kazakhstan 2, Baron Cohen 0
http://www.cross-currents.com/archiv...boran-cohen-0/



Cohen is an idiot, if a gifted clever idiot. Maybe there's
a better word than "idiot"

Contrarian wrote:
> One rabbi's discussion:
>
> Kazahks find "Borat" deeply offensive for completely misrepresenting
> their country as they see it.
>
> Kazakhstan, second largest of the former Soviet republics, is not well
> known to Westerners. .... Jews live there relatively undisturbed, and
> President Nazarbayev personally intervened years ago on behalf of
> thirteen Jews imprisoned by Iran on an espionage charge.
>
> Did I mention that Kazakhstan's largest religious group (almost 50%)
> is Muslim?
>
> So what does this largely Muslim state do, in a week that saw Muslims
> riot, murder, plunder and issue death-threats, to prove that the Pope
> was wrong in suggesting that they were violent?
>
> Kazakhs did not issue a fatwa against Baron Cohen. They did not
> disrupt oil pipelines, torch movie theaters, or burn churches and
> synagogues.
>
> Instead they hired two PR firms to take their case directly to the
> public with ads and articles bent on educating Americans about the
> true Kazakhstan. What a novel idea - using rational discourse instead
> of firebombs!
>
>
> Cross-Currents ? Yitzchok Adlerstein
> http://www.cross-currents.com/archiv...ok-adlerstein/
>
> or
> Kazakhstan 2, Baron Cohen 0
> http://www.cross-currents.com/archiv...boran-cohen-0/
>
>
>
> Cohen is an idiot, if a gifted clever idiot. Maybe there's
> a better word than "idiot"

he's a sellout for what gets the laughs, that's it.

isn't he the same guy that does "ali g" on cable?


Contrarian wrote:
> One rabbi's discussion:
>
> Kazahks find "Borat" deeply offensive for completely misrepresenting
> their country as they see it.
>
> Kazakhstan, second largest of the former Soviet republics, is not well
> known to Westerners. .... Jews live there relatively undisturbed, and
> President Nazarbayev personally intervened years ago on behalf of
> thirteen Jews imprisoned by Iran on an espionage charge.
>
> Did I mention that Kazakhstan's largest religious group (almost 50%)
> is Muslim?
>
> So what does this largely Muslim state do, in a week that saw Muslims
> riot, murder, plunder and issue death-threats, to prove that the Pope
> was wrong in suggesting that they were violent?
>
> Kazakhs did not issue a fatwa against Baron Cohen. They did not
> disrupt oil pipelines, torch movie theaters, or burn churches and
> synagogues.
>
> Instead they hired two PR firms to take their case directly to the
> public with ads and articles bent on educating Americans about the
> true Kazakhstan. What a novel idea - using rational discourse instead
> of firebombs!
>
>
> Cross-Currents ? Yitzchok Adlerstein
> http://www.cross-currents.com/archiv...ok-adlerstein/
>
> or
> Kazakhstan 2, Baron Cohen 0
> http://www.cross-currents.com/archiv...boran-cohen-0/
>
>
>
> Cohen is an idiot, if a gifted clever idiot. Maybe there's
> a better word than "idiot"

"punk" <punkn05@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1163081025.150745.323990@m73g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
> isn't he the same guy that does "ali g" on cable?

wikipedia says u are right. of course, that's the same place that told me
i'm crazy cause i smoked weed 3 times.

Gravity

>
>
> Contrarian wrote:
>> One rabbi's discussion:
>>
>> Kazahks find "Borat" deeply offensive for completely misrepresenting
>> their country as they see it.
>>
>> Kazakhstan, second largest of the former Soviet republics, is not well
>> known to Westerners. .... Jews live there relatively undisturbed, and
>> President Nazarbayev personally intervened years ago on behalf of
>> thirteen Jews imprisoned by Iran on an espionage charge.
>>
>> Did I mention that Kazakhstan's largest religious group (almost 50%)
>> is Muslim?
>>
>> So what does this largely Muslim state do, in a week that saw Muslims
>> riot, murder, plunder and issue death-threats, to prove that the Pope
>> was wrong in suggesting that they were violent?
>>
>> Kazakhs did not issue a fatwa against Baron Cohen. They did not
>> disrupt oil pipelines, torch movie theaters, or burn churches and
>> synagogues.
>>
>> Instead they hired two PR firms to take their case directly to the
>> public with ads and articles bent on educating Americans about the
>> true Kazakhstan. What a novel idea - using rational discourse instead
>> of firebombs!
>>
>>
>> Cross-Currents ? Yitzchok Adlerstein
>> http://www.cross-currents.com/archiv...ok-adlerstein/
>>
>> or
>> Kazakhstan 2, Baron Cohen 0
>> http://www.cross-currents.com/archiv...boran-cohen-0/
>>
>>
>>
>> Cohen is an idiot, if a gifted clever idiot. Maybe there's
>> a better word than "idiot"
>

Contrarian wrote:

<snip>

> Cohen is an idiot, if a gifted clever idiot. Maybe there's
> a better word than "idiot"

Wank.

Gravity wrote:
> "punk" <punkn05@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1163081025.150745.323990@m73g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
>> isn't he the same guy that does "ali g" on cable?
>
> wikipedia says u are right. of course, that's the same place that told me
> i'm crazy cause i smoked weed 3 times.
>
> Gravity
>

ahhh, those simplistic magnetic opinions, how i wish all the people that
smoked walked forward, and watch them amazed about just how small the
effected group is...

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:36:15 GMT, Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Cohen is an idiot, if a gifted clever idiot. Maybe there's
> a better word than "idiot"

He's the Jewish Tom Green.

In message <dnq7l2d492m9klqhq33c79n5gjabq1jvf9@4ax.com>, Tim J.
<tj66821@usa.not> writes
>On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:36:15 GMT, Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Cohen is an idiot, if a gifted clever idiot. Maybe there's
>> a better word than "idiot"
>
>He's the Jewish Tom Green.
>
Who's Tom Green?

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