Watch: from Sacha Baron Cohen's new show - GOP endorses firearms for toddlers

[PunkinPi]

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"Kinder Guardians" is a fake program invented by SBC for his new show, Who Is America? GOP current and expols voluntarily read from a teleprompter in support of this fake program.



ETA: full segment via YouTube; GOP congress part starts about - 7:47 mark

[FakeNoose]

1. Cohen's doing brilliant satire, but rightwingers are "for real"

Sasha Barron Cohen is at it again! These rightwingers aren't "playing along" they're answering for real. They're dumb enough and clueless enough that they don't recognize Cohen, so they think it's a real interview. Fools and assholes.

[dalton99a]

2. This is a must watch.

[PA Democrat]

3. OMG. OMG. OMG.

[MrModerate]

4. I won't watch this any more than I would watch something from . . .

James O'Keefe. The fact that Cohen is being funny doesn't excuse the deception.

[Demit]

6. But O'Keefe's goal was to fool you, the viewer. That's not Cohen's goal,

any more than it was Allen Funt's with Candid Camera.

[MrModerate]

23. Alan Funt was cruel, but not malignant. n/t

[Demit]

25. Keep moving those goalposts, you'll always win your point.

[MrModerate]

26. Pardon?

Funt's humor was at the expense of his unknowing victims, regardless of the fact that he later got permission to show his practical jokes. Cohen's is the same, except that there's a gloss of seriousness about the comedy because the subjects are famous.

[Demit]

27. You began by comparing Sasha Cohen to James O'Keefe on the basis that both practiced deception.

When it was pointed out that Allen Funt of Candid Camera also practiced deception—and let the audience in on it, the same as Cohen and unlike O'Keefe—you switched to comparing Cohen to Funt on the basis of humor.

You're all over the place trying to justify why you don't like Sasha Cohen. Btw, that "gloss of seriousness" is called satire. The purpose of which is to skewer the powerful, aka "famous."

Hope that helps.

[rainin]

9. No!! False equivalence. O'Keefe edited to distort and lie outright.

Getting people's real views on tape is like hearing what they tell their friends and donors. People should see who they really are unedited.

Proof will come when NO guest demands that the full unedited tape be released.

[oberliner]

14. You don't think the Sascha Baron Cohen videos are edited?

[TheBlackAdder]

16. Edited for time, not context. SBC was sued several times in the past, and he's been proven right.

[oberliner]

18. I'd be curious to see the one he did with Bernie Sanders

[rainin]

20. Edited to deceive? Show me proof.

Honestly, would you agree to say these lines on television? I wouldn't say them in on an internet discussion board. They did.

Obviously, they thought they were talking to friendlies. The right wing ONLY talks to friendlies. If you want to indict him for deception, you could get him for that, I guess.

[MrModerate]

24. I don't know how you can be confident that you've gotten someone's "real views" . . .

When you're interviewing them deceptively.

[rainin]

28. Referring to the clip above, they said what they said. They weren't forced to say it.

It's not 1/2 of the sentence so you miss the true point. Remember Obama saying "they didn't build that"? That was deceptive editing. These people are saying full sentences.

I can't personally imagine being misled into saying those sentences, so I guess I'm not ready to give them the benefit of the doubt.

[salin]

5. This is hilarious -

they are clearly reading from a script - not caring that they do not understand the script in terms of references (esp when talking about the 'science' behind it) rather than read up/try to learn - they mindlessly read/tape/promote. Then later are upset that it was a gag.

Idiots.

[spanone]

7. If this was O'keefe, the media would be treating this as a documentary

[MrScorpio]

8. I confess, that made me laugh

I'm gonna watch that show.

[Pepsidog]

10. Can someone help me find my jaw, it dropped after watching this and I cannot find it.

Had I not seen this with my own eyes I wouldn’t believe it. Surely they cannot be that ignorant. The Republican Party should be outlawed for pure unadulterated, unmitigated, world class stupidity. A larger group of morons there never was. Wow Wow Wow !!!!

[Sancho]

11. The "science behind this program" is hilarious...

what a bunch of "morans".

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. I thought the only science they needed was

Gawd

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. What the fuck!

[skip fox]

15. The only answer to a bad toddler with a gun is

a good toddler with a gun!

[Puzzler]

17. OMG

(an initialism I rarely use) ...but bloody hell!




-Puzzler

[AwakeAtLast]

19. Sarah Palin is doing damage control

before it even airs!

A mark of genius!

[Generic Brad]

21. Elevated levels of the pheromone Blink-182!

How can someone be that out of touch that they could read that aloud and not have their bullshit detector go off?

[JDC]

22. These men are insane

[.99center]

29. "Liberals are using the shootings to further their anti-tragedy agenda."

[Puzzler]

30. Cohen uses advance teams months in advance

Which is why so many are deceived.

(He did this with Borat)

SBC is a highly intelligent articulate Cambridge graduate, he is also Ashkenazi Jewish. And left wing. He never backs down.

Cohen knows how to go after racists, and he’s has not, and has never been scared to do this.

Yeah, I know some find him offensive. But there is so much here (in the extended preview) that will finish off a more than a few. And deservedly so.

I’d like to see and hear the GOPers and NRA-ers try and deny they said what they said. Because SBC, will be very prepared to retaliate much harder.

This is not O’Keefe stuff. And I hope every single one of these deplorables go down!!!

-Puzzler