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November 16, 2006
Boycott Borat letter to Vet2 with some edits
Chai,
As a Southpark Jew, I can handle outrageous humor, and delight in the EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY shit-flinging (and mock-antisemitism) that Southpark has mastered. We (Americans, Jews, people in general) need self-mockery if only to better understand ourselves. We also can sometimes benefit from a little sobriety about certain things. For example, America, "land of the Free, home of the Brave," is exposing brave young men and women to death in prosecuting a war against totalitarian Islamists, brazen Jew-beheaders, and their friends. We are facing ideological leaders like OBL, some other stupid Mullahfuckahs, Wahabbis, Salafists, and various tyrants that work with them. This is a long and ugly war that Vichier parts of the world shy away from. This is also an America that at home is not as Brave as we should be, having passed a critical juncture in LOSING the cheesy Danish cartoon wars. (see southpark season 10.) And Kerry is not in power, but what's the Dem position on the war? At least Lieberman won, baruch hash-m.
If the wars we lost were not limited to cartoons, some "jokes" would lose their sense of humor.
Even pro-bush columnists had so much of a laugh at SBC's Borat that they could not help but hallucinate that they saw Southpark-style even-handed satire, and they gave it a nod. And I ALMOST did too! But Borat is no Southpark. SBC's agenda is made all too clear in the rodeo scene, where he mocks Bush and the Iraq war as being the kind of irrational, hateful, destructive, hair-brained scheme worthy of third world barbarians. He never comes close to mocking the politics of the (often viciously antisemitic, like Karl Marx [and that link is to a "historical revisionist" nazi-symp site!]) transnational progressive , UN-loving, America-skeptical academic and media intelligensia. (And Borat has a great relationship with blacks!?) If he left it at that, I would just write SBC off as yet another gifted Useful Idiot, like many Jews and not few non-Jews in these parts. But there's another element in this Idiot routine that makes him uncommonly Useful -- he adds to the trash-talking of America a more bold form of the Southpark-style parody of antisemitism. While he can bear a fat man's package on his face, his package SHOULD BE too much for us to bear at face value, and it's just Kinkier-than-thou jackass machismo that makes some of us think otherwise. Basically we have a Cambridge-educated British aristocrat Jew (a Baron and a Cohen!) putting his privates in some down-home
American pie for shits and giggles, and whinging about Judenhass, and laughing all the way to the bank. With Jews like these, who needs David Duke*? SBC is selling out America AND selling out ANTI-ANTI-semitism, and we are either too confused and shocked and humiliated, or too busy laughing and crying, to understand the situation and examine it with some sobriety in addition to our funny bone. SBC, who does not leave the Borat character even on talk shows, is a Silent Butt Contageon, and I will not sit idly until I am choked by the blowback. Forget "the Jews" -- I say we throw SBC down the well!
I hope the Southpark guys give him his due thrashing, but until then, we have ... Boycott Borat: coming soon to a youtube near you.
We can't beat his huge war chest, but if we act swiftly, we can raise awareness and perhaps force settlement by way of a Bowie-mediated
... walkoff.
Best,
MDJ
* the former KKK-leader, sometimes politician, and Rachel Corrie fan, who is lately teaching Ukraine how to do more effective antisemitism
Posted by matt at November 16, 2006 02:10 AM
Comments
I'm for a Borat Boycott - check this out
http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm
Posted by: hummer at November 20, 2006 11:54 PM