Comments on: inside ‘Bruno,’ a glimpse of the Nakba

By: Progressive Zionist

Progressive Zionist — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:25:00 +0000

Wow, and you guys say the Jews think everyone is out to get to them. What a bunch of whiny,PC BS. I don't know which part is more laughable, the thinly veiled anti-semitism or the insinuation that Sasha Baron Cohen is at the center of a Jewish conspiracy to embarrass and humiliate goys. You guys in the comments section here are in a perpetual circle jerk, I'm just glad no one else cares. Wasn't the whole thing with Borat how it would perpetuate Jewish stereotypes and antisemitism, and Bruno about how it would do the same for the gays? Yet you find a way to make both part of the elite Jewish conspiracy. Bruno! A movie that is being hotly debated by the gay community, you make it about the Jews. You guys are obsessed, seriously. I hope Phillip is happy with what he has wrought here. What a bunch of loonies, no wonder no one takes this place seriously. Even Max, who once had a shot at legitimacy due to his good piece on the situations in Mexico, is quickly losing his respectability. The comments section, even ignoring the Israeli and Jew stuff, is starting to read like a white power message board or something Jim Goad would write.

By: Gnu

Gnu — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:30:52 +0000

Glad Borat and his douche-bag alter-egos are through.Baron Cohen has no other actor to pull of of the closet. He can sit back and practice his orthodoxy while shaving his legs.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:49:25 +0000

Cripes. Even Newsweek got that Bruno's targets are Aryans (Bruno character hails from Austria, got the wig to prove it) generally, and a small heartland town in the USA, as representative of intolerance (a major theme of Cohen's last movie too); Cohen first takes a very mild swipe at the much more PC acceptable intolerance of orthodox Jews. " target="_blank">http://www.newsweek.com/id/205872 I agree with lovelyisraelis too. Cohen's work is much more PC than not to anyone with half a brain. In no way is it real biting satire; rather it's just cheap laughs. The satirical thrusts at racism and other forms of bigotry basically save the deep thrust for white Gentiles. Everything else is just a fig leaf of more general humanistic outrage the better to nail the white Gentiles, the very same laughing in the theatre. Cohen is a totally Orthodox Jew and his films show it, which is understandable given his family background. Just don't take him or his work for anything more. Gotta remember, Sarah Silverman has physical beauty as her emission prop and built-in foil, while Cohen is just a , well look a him without his Bruno wig. I'm just happy that guys like lovelyisraelis also see right through Cohen and are brave enough to speak out.

By: filmbuff

filmbuff — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:24:26 +0000

Sacha Baron Cohen is incredibly racist himself. Making a movie that mocks and slanders an entire nation (Kazakhstan) is pretty damn racist. Imagine a movie which depicts Israelis as horse urine drinking, dirty, racist, perverse people who love incest. Would this movie be accepted anywhere in the US, or in Europe for that matter? Now, imagine a movie like Bruno where Bruno wears no Aryan blonde wig, but rather say he has an obviously Jewish appearance, and he exhibits no nuances other than obvious Jewish nuances, doing exactly what the Bruno character says and does in that movie. Gays may still have mixed emotions about the movie, its satire, but there's be no psyche overlay as usual blaming the same type of people: white Gentiles. directed at

By: shiksa

shiksa — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:13:00 +0000

The white gentile kids are growing up with all this propaganda directed against them in the name of humanity. I pity them. Nobody is protecting them. They are internalizing hatred of their own kind in the name of humanism, while the other ethnic groups are internalizing self-love uber alles, also in the name of humanism.

By: Leila Abu-Saba

Leila Abu-Saba — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:07:56 +0000

I won't be seeing Borat's film – why bother. But I'm deeply humbled that my little squibs keep the memory of Ain el Helweh's history alive here at Mondoweiss. The place is not just a comedy set. Read Robert Fisk on Ain el Helweh 1982, in Pity the Nation. The bodies were entombed in the rubble, sprinkled with lime, and asphalted over.

By: Jerry, Jerry

Jerry, Jerry — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:07:09 +0000

oops Aryan wig

By: Jerry, Jerry

Jerry, Jerry — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:05:11 +0000

I agree with all the opinions above. Does one have to be a non-PC white goy to see it? Sure seems so. Lovelyisraelis goes to the practical heart of the matter. Imagine a Jerry Springer show where the invited players are always Jews instead of Gentile trailer trash! For example, Israeli settlement trailer trash. (The difference is the USA white trash have no power, while in Israel they have the deciding power). It would make a tidy profit. Imagine an All In The Family where Archie is Michael or Moishe, say in Crown Heights, or Pottsville, Iowa, or in upper NY state near the PA border? It's disgusting. First Cohen attacks an Eastern European people, and the American heartland, and then he dons an Aryan wing to attack all Western European–derived people, ostensibly from the inside. His stuff is ignorant, stupid, and racist and insensitive to the extreme–but not in the way he imagines at all. No Gentile could ever get financed to pull the same tricks on the comparative Jews. Especially since his presentation blankets all Gentiles. No Gentile mindful of his career would ever do what Cohen has done. There are plenty of Gentile comedians who have the "wit" to do so, but they know it's hands off, "don't fuck with the Jews." They could also easily demolish the likes of Sarah Silverman, but again, they're not authorized since they are not Jews.

By: David_F

David_F — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:52:50 +0000

For me, abusing someone's hospitality and trust in order to humiliate him is one of the most vicerally contemptible practices I can think of. Cohen restricts himself to politically correct targets who have no political or media power with which to respond. He's not only a bully, but a coward as well.

By: lovelyisraelis

lovelyisraelis — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:15:07 +0000

A comedian, Jewish or gentile making fun of the tefillin lunatics of Israel would be unthinkable. As a supposedly taboo-breaking Jew, that ought to be Baron Cohen's starting point. Some of the Ali G skits were unbelievably funny. There's even one where he interviews Chomsky. But Cohen's films are asinine crap. I lost all respect for him on learning most of the stuff in Borat was set up. It's a film version of a Jerry Springer episode, and that's about it. Want to be edgy? Break new ground? Go after the most bizarre, perverted, lunatic society on earth—Israeli society. Israel makes Khazakstan look like Hapsburg Vienna. You'd never run out of material. The Jews aren't going to do it. I hope a Palestinian film maker will. I'd love to see their answer to Adam Sandler's abysmal tripe….a comedy about bloodthirsty religious zombies in Israel. If AIPAC didn't shut it down, it would be a worldwide sensation.