Georgia Leaders Condemn Jason Spencer, Lawmaker Who Used Slurs on Sacha Baron Cohen Show

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Jason Spencer, a Republican state representative in Georgia, found himself on the wrong end of a Sacha Baron Cohen prank that aired Sunday night on Showtime. It was the second episode of “Who Is America?” — Mr. Cohen’s latest foray into duping unsuspecting participants into saying embarrassing things.

But Mr. Spencer’s segment was one of the most humiliating yet to air on the show.

Mr. Cohen was playing a character named Erran Morad, an Israeli antiterrorism expert who, in the first episode, fooled several current and former lawmakers and gun-rights advocates into expressing support for arming young children. In Sunday night’s episode, the Morad character persuaded Mr. Spencer to take part in what he believed was antiterrorism training.

For Mr. Spencer, it went downhill from there. In a series of wince-inducing scenes, Mr. Cohen got him to yell a racial epithet and drop his pants on camera by telling him that those tactics would scare terrorists away.

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What a rube!

[magicarpet]

1. Unstable (genius ?) dumb bell

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2. Proof-positive that there really are idiots who are literally too stupid to hold office...

...un-fucking-believable...

[Different Drummer]

3. As a Georgian, I'm surprised anyone in Georgia would condemn Spencer for his actions.

Seems like that kind of behavior would greatly increase his popularity with the state's voters. Not with me, but I'm atypical of most Georgians.

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4. You must not live in close proximity to Atlanta...

...just a guess...

[Different Drummer]

5. I'm about an hour NE of Atlanta. Serious redhat territory! n/t

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8. You're an hour from Atlanta...

and are seriously "surprised anyone in Georgia would condemn Spencer for his act"?

Come on, at least half the city would not only condemn him, they'd probably have few qualms about kicking him right in his racist ass - and deservedly so.

Just sayin'...

[Hortensis]

10. I'm similarly positioned. The Repubs I know almost

all expect church behavior from themselves and their reps. They'd no more yell racial epithets in public than they'd drive dirty cars.

Of course, there is tremendous dissonance between the intense dishonesty that allows them to maintain their blood-red political beliefs and their insistence on dignity and appearance of probity in public. Those in our town for years rejected an annual KKK parade from a vestigial little group in true revulsion but continue to support Trump even as frightened, miserable children continue to be held in cages away from their parents.

Nothing like the ability to compartmentalize reality as needed to make all positions possible.

[PufPuf23]

6. Watched the clip with Cohen and Spencer this AM

Spencer had his pants pulled down and was trying to strike Cohen with is butt in an "anti-terrorism" method. There were other clips with some red necks in Kingman AR for a faux public meeting about a mosque coming to Kingman and anther clip with Dick Cheney. Talk about fools.

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7. Did they show where he was ramming his naked butt into Sacha while saying, "USA, USA!"?

I laughed so hard when I saw that I almost spit my tea!

[PufPuf23]

9. Yes. It is hard to believe that a human could act so shamefully

stupid and that asshole is an elected GOP.