Let the Borat Backlash begin!

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on November 14th, 2006

The weasels at ABC News, who so slavishly followed the media pack when building up the anticipation prior to the release of the Borat, have led the charge now that the Borat Backlash has begun. Privately we predicted this would happen. The movie is, after all, a comedy. And it’s a comedy that takes on political correctness. It was only a matter of time before comedian Sascha Baron Cohen would be portrayed as evil.

In an item titled “Borat a Bad Influence?” a 17-year-old Bronx high schooler says that:

…he’s heard teens repeat some of the more misogynistic lines from the movie.

“They talk about women being b—— and prostitutes.”

One particularly hysterical nitwit said the movie was “a disgrace and an insult,” and that the movie “was reversing some of the progress her community had made teaching its teens to be respectful and ethical.” We would bet money that these same weepy goofballs (and the editors at ABC News) are positively placid however when it comes to the following:

Fat, gorilla, monkey mouth bitches cant get in our mothafuckin’ dressin room or backstage
And if they do, we kindly put our foot up their asses
And re-direct them bitches to security dressin’ room, you dig?
Sick of these ugly ass bitches bein’ my dressin’ room

That would be Ludacris, featuring Snoop, from one of Luda’s trademark, bouncy rap romps called “Hoes In My Room.”

We’re not suggesting for a minute that ABC News go all C. Dolores Tucker on Luda, but we are suggesting that, for some odd reason, they seem to get more bent out of shape when the insults are delivered via comedy. When the bitches and hoes are talked about with virtually zero sense of humor and without a hint of irony, like in the above example, it’s truth-telliing, it’s refreshing; the rappers are the modern equivalent of troubadors, broadcasters, purveyors of socially relevant messages, etc. When Sascha Baron Cohen’s message is misinterpreted and subsequently repeated by immature goofballs trying to get a laugh (and maybe noticed by the girls at happy hour), the movie and the comic who masterminded it are a “bad influence.”

Note to parents: Borat is “Rated R for pervasive strong crude and sexual content including graphic nudity, and language.” Children under 17 are not admitted. And if your 17-year-old lacks even the maturity of a 15-year-old, perhaps he/she shouldn’t be permitted to see something that requires a sense of irony.

As for the adults condemning the movie, perhaps they need to work on their sense of irony as well.

“Throw The Jew Down The Well” is the “Short People” for the new millennium. We wonder what Randy Newman thinks of all this commotion.

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