First guy to walk out on Sasha Cohen and his garbage...

[Archae]

None other than Barney Frank.

Right-wingers keep getting suckered, Barney Frank calls it like it is and walks out.

‘That is deluded’: Watch Barney Frank walk out on Sacha Baron Cohen trying to verify PizzaGate with kids eat free receipt

Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-NJ) was the latest to get the Sacha Baron Cohen treatment during a contentious interview about right-wing conspiracy theories.

Cohen’s right-wing character Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr. began by challenging Frank that President Donald Trump is the greatest president of all time. Frank argued that Trump hasn’t been all that successful in changing laws because they kept getting challenged in court and struck down.

(snip)

The discussion devolved and eventually Frank simply walked out.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/deluded-watch-barney-frank-walk-sacha-baron-cohen-trying-verify-pizzagate-kids-eat-free-receipt/

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1. D-Ma.

[Totally Tunsie]

34. +1

[Kurt V.]

2. Garbage is right

[GoneOffShore]

3. Funny how all the Democrats who have been on have fiqured out the gaff

And how all the Reichwingers have taken the bait.

[KCDebbie]

26. That just shows you what horrible people republican

Politicians are! They're disgusting POSs that can be goaded into saying and doing the most disgusting, unprincipled things and acts!

[xxqqqzme]

4. I thought roy moore walked

out on him as well.

[marylandblue]

9. He did, he's an asshole, but not so dumb

[7962]

5. Not the first guy to walk out; a few have. Sarah Palin did. Although not a "guy"

And look at what she was asked WHEN she decided to walk out; she was asked about Chelsea Clinton getting a government funded sex change operation.
Cohen is a disgusting character who should've stuck to basic comedy.

[ck4829]

6. A reflection of our disgusting government and political culture

[Lucky Luciano]

27. He was trying to bait white trash Palin into saying something obscene.

It has worked many times.

Jason Spencer (OMFG!)
The Rednecks of kingman, AZ
Joe Arpaio
The whole Kinder-Guardian thing was amazing - jaw dropping.
Dick Cheney autographing his water boarding kit (OMFG!)

We all know wing nuts are crazy - but when he gets them comfortable enough to say what they usually keep hidden from public view - a work of art - with much hilarity.

[7962]

33. I figure Cheney was perfectly fine doing that regardless of who was asking!

[Shrek]

7. Actually it was Ted Koppel I believe

https://slate.com/culture/2018/07/ted-koppel-escaped-his-sacha-baron-cohen-interview-just-by-knowing-night-from-day.html

[Happyhippychick]

8. Not garbage, he's an international treasure for shining a light

I'm shocked anyone on this board would disagree

[The Wizard]

11. Agreed

Satire and irony escape some people.

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12. Cohen's a bit of an ass

I enjoyed Borat because he basically handed a rope for the idiots to hang themselves with, but he just comes across as a bully now in this new show.

[Happyhippychick]

13. A bully?

No.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

15. He hasn't bullied anyone...

The show has been genius.

[USALiberal]

18. Nope! Nt

[BannonsLiver]

22. Yes

A bully who gets deplorables to look like the idiots they are. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

[cab67]

16. I don't have much use for him.

When he finagled his way onto a local morning newscast for Borat, the producer who agreed to his appearance was fired. She did nothing wrong. So far as I know, Cohen never even apologized.

Satire crosses the line when it causes collateral damage.

[kcr]

20. Sadly, I'm not

Since I don't want to risk a hide, all I'll say is DU has always skewed toward certain demographics and given the age and format of the site I think it's getting worse.

[BannonsLiver]

24. I'm not

There are plenty of people on DU without a shred of a sense of humor.

[GoneOffShore]

25. Nailed it. And also irony impaired.

In some ways it's getting better and in other quarters it's getting worse.

I miss kudzu, fried chicken, and The Olive Garden(discussions in the Lounge that were very funny and went on for months).

[Happyhippychick]

30. Do you think it's people from conservative websites that are here to stir stuff up?

I sometimes wonder about that too.

[GoneOffShore]

32. Could well be. Though the obvious trolls get taken out pretty quickly.

It may well be that a lot of the 'old timers' are gone along with the fact that the times feel so perilous that some of the humour that used to pervade this place is damped down.

[Archae]

35. It has to *BE* humor. Not shit like Cohen's show.

And I've been here since 2001.

Much of what is called "political humor" nowadays is simply nothing but name-calling, smears, and vicious innuendoes.

When I think of good political humor I don't think of Cohen and his crass cheap shots.
I think of Mark Russell.
George Carlin.

[GoneOffShore]

37. As the expression goes - You do you.

[RandiFan1290]

10. I love the bitter whiny responses from the right.

They really hate Cohen's show.

[IronLionZion]

14. Ted Koppel is another one who walked out immediately

Liberals seem a bit quicker to catch on than conservatives

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17. Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius...

...If you don't like him or what he does and how he does it, change the channel.

[Lucky Luciano]

19. I love what Sacha Baron Cohen is doing. He really exposes these wingnuts well and hilariously! nt

[BannonsLiver]

21. I love to see people rage at Baron Cohen

It’s like bonus scenes from the show!

[aikoaiko]

23. Not the first guy

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28. it's not so much whether or not they walk out, it's how long it takes them.

cohen will go on and on with increasingly outrageous comments and questions until the interviewee finally catches on and ends it, unless it's obvious that will never happen, in which case cohen goes for the gold, like getting that one guy to "attack" him with his butt


but there was a republican on briefly, who cohen asked to endorse a plan to arm toddlers, and the republican said, no, that's not how it works, i'm not going to just hear a plan for the first time and immediately endorse it on television. he didn't "walk out", but he made it clear enough to cohen that he wasn't a sucker.

[Lucky Luciano]

29. Or Bernie Sanders looking at him incredulously, "I don't know what you're talking about!" nt

[obnoxiousdrunk]

31. Sorry his show

is not garbage.

[Blue_true]

36. Good post. But Barney was from Massachusetts. nt