Oh My God.
EA mentioned this in a previous post but I was up last night and saw portions of the first episode before laughing myself to sleep. I set the DVR to record the second episode that followed and will watch later today, but this is just too hilarious, weird, surreal, etc to be true... right?
If it is all true, then Cohen is a genius. He even got a Georgia Republican lawmaker to say the N word.
Who Is America?
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_SteelHead
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Yeah, this is America (woo, ayy)
Guns in my area (word, my area)
I got the strap (ayy, ayy)
I gotta carry 'em
Guns in my area (word, my area)
I got the strap (ayy, ayy)
I gotta carry 'em
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
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_Kevin Graham
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It opened with an interview with Bernie Sanders, and Cohen kept trying to explain to him that we should stop criticizing the top 1% and push the 99% into the 1%. Sanders said if everyone is in the 1% it wouldn't be the 1% anymore, it would be the 100%. Cohen then pulled out his files with a form explaining the "simple math." In one column he had 1% and 99% in the other. He was going on and on about how pushing over the 9 from one side would give us 19% and the look on Bernie's face was priceless. 
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So Cohen doesn't understand bell curves. Should we be surprised?
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
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SteelHead wrote:So Cohen doesn't understand bell curves. Should we be surprised?
The imaginary character he was (unknown to his interlocutor) portraying was presented as not understanding bell curves, or even simple math, certainly.
That does not mean that Cohen himself is as ignorant as the character he created.
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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Ahhh.... I don't watch much TV and missed that it was a parody.
Mea culpa
Mea culpa
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
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_Kevin Graham
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Yes, satire, parody, that's his shtick. He dressed up as an overweight Confederate Flag carrying Redneck when interviewing Sanders, and then he was a long haired hippie Liberal professor when in South Carolina to confront a couple of politicians in their home. He was also an ex-Mossad agent fighting for the NRA.
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Took a second peruse of the OP for me to realize that the Cohen in question is Sacha Baron Cohen. I need to pay better attention sometimes.
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin