Bush Hires Latest Sacha Baron Cohen Character

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(this is a scream -- from: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/)

Friday, November 17, 2006
by tristero




"Y'gotta hand it to Sacha Baron Cohen. He really is as brilliant and daring a comic as everyone says he is. Fresh off the spectacular success of "Borat," Cohen posed as an utterly deranged abstinence-only rightwinger and managed, apparently, to get himself hired by the Bush administration to oversee the only federal program that oversees family planning....

"It's amazing, and extremely funny, that he was able to fool anyone. Look at that moustache! Look at that hairline! It's so obviously fake. And then the totally bogus name (Dr. Eric Keroack), a blatant homage to a famous Monty Python - who always looked great in a skirt - and the great Beat author, Jack Kerouac. As if all that wasn't enough of a give-away, oxytocin? Isn't that something like the stuff Limbaugh abused? That should have set off alarm bells right away...."

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