OK ... it wasn't Borat, it was Socha Baron Cohen from his program "Who is America?" The Groomers Only Party takes another "L". During the segment, Cohen interviewed Moore, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and controversial Republican who lost a special election to fill the US Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, under the ruse of receiving a prize in honor of his support for the state of Israel. Baron Cohen presented himself as an Israeli anti-terrorism expert and former intelligence agent in the segment, during which he showed news clips reporting allegations from the time of Judge Moore’s Senate campaign that he had engaged in sexual misconduct. (Moore denied the allegations.) In character, Baron Cohen described a fictional “pedophile detector.” During the episode, the device – which looks like a hand-held metal detector – was shown beeping near Moore, implying that he was a pedophile. Moore walked out of the interview. In its decision, the Second Circuit said Judge Moore signed a release waiver ahead of the interview, the plain text of which barred Moore from future claims for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and fraud. The court also agreed with a lower court, “that the segment at issue was clearly comedy and that no reasonable viewer would conclude otherwise.” Sacha Baron Cohen wins defamation appeal brought by Roy Moore - CNN
I hadn’t seen this one. SVC is genius. Watch Sacha Baron Cohen Trick Roy Moore Into 'Pedophile Detector Test'
Sadly, these kinds of things should disabuse us of the notion that judges, politicians and others in positions of power and influence are necessarily bright or in possession of common sense. It's sad - scary even - to think he was on Alabama's Supreme Court, much less its chief judge. How do you feel about Cohen doing that to people then airing it and making money from having ridiculed others? I must admit to it making me uneasy.
