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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFirst guy to walk out on Sasha Cohen and his garbage...
None other than Barney Frank.
Right-wingers keep getting suckered, Barney Frank calls it like it is and walks out.
That is deluded: Watch Barney Frank walk out on Sacha Baron Cohen trying to verify PizzaGate with kids eat free receipt
Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-NJ) was the latest to get the Sacha Baron Cohen treatment during a contentious interview about right-wing conspiracy theories.
Cohens right-wing character Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr. began by challenging Frank that President Donald Trump is the greatest president of all time. Frank argued that Trump hasnt been all that successful in changing laws because they kept getting challenged in court and struck down.
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The discussion devolved and eventually Frank simply walked out.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/deluded-watch-barney-frank-walk-sacha-baron-cohen-trying-verify-pizzagate-kids-eat-free-receipt/
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)And how all the Reichwingers have taken the bait.
KCDebbie
(664 posts)Politicians are! They're disgusting POSs that can be goaded into saying and doing the most disgusting, unprincipled things and acts!
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)out on him as well.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)And look at what she was asked WHEN she decided to walk out; she was asked about Chelsea Clinton getting a government funded sex change operation.
Cohen is a disgusting character who should've stuck to basic comedy.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)It has worked many times.
Jason Spencer (OMFG!)
The Rednecks of kingman, AZ
Joe Arpaio
The whole Kinder-Guardian thing was amazing - jaw dropping.
Dick Cheney autographing his water boarding kit (OMFG!)
We all know wing nuts are crazy - but when he gets them comfortable enough to say what they usually keep hidden from public view - a work of art - with much hilarity.
7962
(11,841 posts)Shrek
(3,981 posts)Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)I'm shocked anyone on this board would disagree
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)Satire and irony escape some people.
ansible
(1,718 posts)I enjoyed Borat because he basically handed a rope for the idiots to hang themselves with, but he just comes across as a bully now in this new show.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)No.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)The show has been genius.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)A bully who gets deplorables to look like the idiots they are. I dont think that word means what you think it means.
cab67
(2,993 posts)When he finagled his way onto a local morning newscast for Borat, the producer who agreed to his appearance was fired. She did nothing wrong. So far as I know, Cohen never even apologized.
Satire crosses the line when it causes collateral damage.
kcr
(15,317 posts)Since I don't want to risk a hide, all I'll say is DU has always skewed toward certain demographics and given the age and format of the site I think it's getting worse.
BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)There are plenty of people on DU without a shred of a sense of humor.
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)In some ways it's getting better and in other quarters it's getting worse.
I miss kudzu, fried chicken, and The Olive Garden(discussions in the Lounge that were very funny and went on for months).
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)I sometimes wonder about that too.
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)It may well be that a lot of the 'old timers' are gone along with the fact that the times feel so perilous that some of the humour that used to pervade this place is damped down.
Archae
(46,337 posts)And I've been here since 2001.
Much of what is called "political humor" nowadays is simply nothing but name-calling, smears, and vicious innuendoes.
When I think of good political humor I don't think of Cohen and his crass cheap shots.
I think of Mark Russell.
George Carlin.
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,237 posts)They really hate Cohen's show.
IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)Liberals seem a bit quicker to catch on than conservatives
ADX
(1,622 posts)...If you don't like him or what he does and how he does it, change the channel.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)Its like bonus scenes from the show!
aikoaiko
(34,172 posts)unblock
(52,253 posts)cohen will go on and on with increasingly outrageous comments and questions until the interviewee finally catches on and ends it, unless it's obvious that will never happen, in which case cohen goes for the gold, like getting that one guy to "attack" him with his butt
but there was a republican on briefly, who cohen asked to endorse a plan to arm toddlers, and the republican said, no, that's not how it works, i'm not going to just hear a plan for the first time and immediately endorse it on television. he didn't "walk out", but he made it clear enough to cohen that he wasn't a sucker.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)obnoxiousdrunk
(2,910 posts)is not garbage.