El Paso County Republican Chair Says He Intends to Sue Sacha Baron Cohen Over Ali G Footage
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The chair of the El Paso County Republican Party has said he intends to sue Sacha Baron Cohen over footage of the local politician used in the new satirical comedy Ali G: Who Iz I?, the Guardian reports.
In one sequence, a participant is shown in a training programme with Cohen’s ex-Mossad character Col Erran Morad, who instructs the recruits in self-defence techniques that include wearing protective plastic buttocks over their clothes and firing bullets from the middle of them.
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A lawsuit threat is also free publicity: “so outrageous it provoked a suit” is a useful sentence for a Sacha Baron Cohen film.
Pushback
The person in the plastic buttocks may not experience it as publicity. The film gets the laugh; the participant gets to be the punchline.