A good story. In making the movie “Bruno,” Sacha Baron Cohen maligned a Palestinian interview subject by describing him as a “terrorist.” The characterization was pure racism. The Palestinian sued Cohen and David Letterman, on whose show Cohen repeated the charge, and Cohen has folded.
He had claimed free speech– an absurd defense when libel and misrepresentation are at work. From Al Arabiya, thanks to Max:
A Christian and ‘a peace-loving person’ who lives near Bethlehem in the West Bank, Abu Aita has never been a part of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade or participated in any terrorist activity, according to his court complaint papers.
The Palestinian grocer said he agreed to the interview that appeared in ‘Bruno’ thinking that he will be discussing peace activism with a real journalist, the complaint further read…
On Thursday, Abu Aita’s lawyer Peter Drennan said “the case is settled to the mutual satisfaction” of everyone involved.
Sacha Cohen has always struck me as a propaganda arm of Zionism and an expert of the ‘soft sells’ of Islamophobia and Zionism to America
I hate the guy
That said – Avigdor Lieberman is the Borat of the West Bank and his fellow settlers the villagers :) Tell me that ain’t true
Glad to see Cohen get busted for his usual spiel and attempts to smear/humiliate Palestinians
Cohens movies are filled with racist attitudes that cultivate Islamophobia.
The ‘free speech’ argument really was dreadful. It was libel. Pay up.
While I’ve never seen his films, I saw the first 5 minutes of “Borat” to convince me that Mr. Cohen is an essentially talentless individual, who makes himself into caricatures of human beings and whose “humor” consists of mocking different groups. I love good comedies, and some of my favorites, Some Like it Hot, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Odd Couple, present funny situations, and never mock, but then again, they were acted and written by talent, something as I’ve said, Mr. Cohen lacks.
How anybody finds that racist, Cohen, funny is beyond me.