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Right? Imagine a version of the Star Wars prequels where we like Anakin so much we don’t really want him to become Darth Vader.
That’s what they’ve managed to pull off with this show.

I hope future writers will study this show, so that when they are hired to write a prequel that nobody asked for and have to put lots of unnecessary fanservice in it, they know how to do it right.

Wait, his big defense is... “I knew it was a joke the whole time, i just went along with it because i wanted to confirm it was a joke”

Yes, “fooled” in the same way the Sandy Hook deniers “outsmart” the rest of us sheep. By far my least favorite development of the internet age is the swarm of incredibly stupid people suddenly thinking they’re smart.

Also, moron. That cash was Iran’s in the first place. It was set to go back to them way before Obama. You Repubs are retards, who know fuck all. I’m not even going to bother to refute anything else you claim.

Oh, look a whataboutism. 

While he was worried that he may be filming “a ‘mocumentary,’ by someone like Michael Moore, or, even worse, a Sacha Baron Cohen-esq ‘Borat’-type of shock comedy [sic] meant to be devastatingly embarrassing and humiliating to the victim in the crosshairs,” Van Cleave continued to participate because he thought…

Cohen has long used these psychological manipulation techniques. Don’t let yourself get caught up in them! Here’s how to spot his method:

“Extremely well funded individuals...”

I find your language repulsive, you are cheapening sincere thoughts and prayers by offering them to snowflakes who had their feelings hurt. Thoughts and prayers are the most powerful weapons we have in our arsenal to combat gun violence in America, so they need to be saved and only used in cases of actual physical…

These motherfucking Republicans and their idiotic base. First Trump saying he misspoke when the rest of his speech doesn’t make sense if he did. And now this motherfucker saying he was just playing games. We’re lost. Now anybody that fucks up is just going to have some bullshit excuse everybody is going to eat up..

So every person that appeared on this show has the brain power of Ron Burgundy?

Good for Philip Van Cleave! I’m sure that Sacha Baron Cohen is chastened now, and will no longer stoop to manipulative techniques to get people to say basically what they believe but with the veneer stripped away!

I, for one, would like to offer my thoughts and prayers to any 2nd Amendment people that were harmed during the filming of this.

I thought he worked at Chotzkis and that was his required amount of flair.

Jesus fucking Christ.  Do people drink stupid over where he ran things?  Because here in LA, he’d be sitting in the last Rail Car reciting the bible while pissing on himself.

Stolen Valor!!!!!!111!!!1! Ignore the fact that Republican black friend Sheriff David Clarke wears dozens of medals that he didn’t earn in combat either.

I love how you bent over backwards to suggest that Cohen’s show is somehow garbage because one of the many people he employs said some rude things that he later apologized for.

The story I’d heard somewhere around here recently regarding his joke thievery is that because his routines were so free-form and improvisational (Steve Martin he was not), he was prone to just toss out lines he’d heard recently, along with the ones he was making up on the spot. It didn’t appear that he was doing it…