Georgia Republican asked to resign after using racial slurs, dropping pants in TV show
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston demanded that state Rep. Jason Spencer resign after he yelled racial slurs and exposed himself in an episode of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Showtime series that aired late Sunday.
Spencer, who was defeated in the May GOP primary, dropped his pants and repeatedly used the n-word in the episode of “Who is America?” Spencer had earlier threatened legal action to prevent the network from airing footage of him.
In a statement shortly after the episode aired, Ralston said the actions and language used in the video are “reprehensible.”
“Representative Spencer has disgraced himself and should resign immediately,” said Ralston. “Georgia is better than this.”
Cohen, who played an Israeli military expert, persuaded Spencer to take part in what he was told was a counterterrorism video. Cohen gets him to yell racial epithets and shimmy his exposed rear-end toward purported attackers screaming “USA” and “America” by saying it will ward off terrorists.
In the show’s closing minutes, Spencer returns to the screen with a “message to the terrorists.”
He then repeats a racial slur, this time threatening to cut off an attacker’s genitals. Then it shows him stabbing a knife into the groin area of a dummy clad in a black hijab, and shoving another item in the dummy’s mouth. The segment ends with him reminding the audience he’s an elected official - and a Georgia peach logo.
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