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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,274 posts)
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 02:42 PM Oct 2020

Rudy Giuliani's 'Borat 2' scene: What can he do about it legally? Not a lot, experts say

Rudy Giuliani has been well and truly pranked, and by the master scamp of the "Borat" gotcha movies, Sacha Baron Cohen. And there's precious little he can do about it in the courts of law or public relations, say lawyers and crisis experts.

Sure, he can bellow on Twitter against Baron Cohen, calling him a liar while trying to explain what he was doing flat on his back on a hotel bed with his hands down his pants (he says he was tucking in his shirt) and a young "reporter" by his side in a scene from Baron Cohen's latest, "Borat 2," streaming now on Amazon Prime.

But so far Giuliani, 76, has not hired a lawyer to help him take Baron Cohen to court to block the film (full name: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) or to sue for libel, defamation or just the general monkey business for which Baron Cohen has become notorious.

And Baron Cohen, shielded by crack Hollywood lawyers waving airtight consent forms and "appearance releases," is not shaking in his mankini. For one thing, he has been sued multiple times since the first "Borat" movie, and so far he hasn't lost a case.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/rudy-giulianis-borat-2-scene-what-can-he-do-about-it-legally-not-a-lot-experts-say/ar-BB1akrGy?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=DELLDHP

Giuliani is a puplic figure who's shown it's possible to entrap him in a honeypot. He's lucky it was just a joke.

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Rudy Giuliani's 'Borat 2' scene: What can he do about it legally? Not a lot, experts say (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2020 OP
He can get in line behind Kazakhstan, RV frat boys, the town Guy Whitey Corngood Oct 2020 #1
He was being so flirty, wrinkling his nose when he smiled. It gagged me. Greybnk48 Oct 2020 #2
Indeed, Ma'am The Magistrate Oct 2020 #6
Really enjoyed the movie. WA-03 Democrat Oct 2020 #3
Rudy Giuliani is a stupid man. MineralMan Oct 2020 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author ramblin_dave Oct 2020 #5

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,505 posts)
1. He can get in line behind Kazakhstan, RV frat boys, the town
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 02:45 PM
Oct 2020

where Borat was actually filmed, fashion designers, half the South, etc, etc, etc....

Greybnk48

(10,177 posts)
2. He was being so flirty, wrinkling his nose when he smiled. It gagged me.
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 02:46 PM
Oct 2020

He couldn’t wait to get in the bedroom with that girl, and he’s CLEARLY done that kind of thing before. He didn’t even bat an eye, reaching down to get himself ready. It was gross.

WA-03 Democrat

(3,056 posts)
3. Really enjoyed the movie.
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 02:48 PM
Oct 2020

Cohen is the best at holding a mirror up and letting the ugly side show. Timing was perfect.

MineralMan

(146,336 posts)
4. Rudy Giuliani is a stupid man.
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 03:16 PM
Oct 2020

He was taken in by a young blonde woman and didn't check her journalistic credentials and allowed the interview to be filmed. He is not clever enough to know that someone might try to put him in an awkward position. In fact, he willingly put himself in an awkward position on that bed. He patted the young woman on the hip, too.

He's just an old man who was pleased as punch that a pretty young woman was talking to him.

How many other times has a young woman with an eastern European accent gotten him into awkward positions, I wonder?

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