# Have you all heard the latest political victim of Sacha Baron Cohen's new political show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 23, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-all-heard-the-latest-political-victim-of-sacha-baron-cohens-new-political-show/818485 "2018-07-23T23:55:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-all-heard-the-latest-political-victim-of-sacha-baron-cohens-new-political-show/818485/61 "2018-07-31T15:10:57Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I bet that if Cohen were to plumb the depths of liberal state senators, he could find someone dumb enough to go along with something stupid. True. He did not try to get the higher ranking Republicans to drop their pants, one may notice - because he has a good idea going in of how far he can push. But I agree, out there surely ypu could find some (D) State Assemblymen or city councilmembers who’d be down for some Deep Stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-all-heard-the-latest-political-victim-of-sacha-baron-cohens-new-political-show/818485/62 "2018-07-31T15:34:32Z")
Right, just different kinds of stupid, like believing that all illnesses are curable with the right diet, that modern medicine is a scam, or other quackery. ---
**Author:** ![Project\_Patahhh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7cd45c/32.png) [@Project\_Patahhh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Project_Patahhh)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-all-heard-the-latest-political-victim-of-sacha-baron-cohens-new-political-show/818485/63 "2018-07-31T15:49:02Z")
On this most recent episode I was astounded when Roy Moore authoritatively stated that Alabama is historically known for believing in freedom and equality. Like, what? Then I started laughing my ass off when Cohen used the pedophile scanner on him. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-all-heard-the-latest-political-victim-of-sacha-baron-cohens-new-political-show/818485/64 "2018-07-31T16:33:08Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I bet that if Cohen were to plumb the depths of liberal state senators, he could find someone dumb enough to go along with something stupid. But not Sanders–whatever some of his haters may say, Sanders is canny as hell. I’m not saying he couldn’t find dumb progressives and troll them hard, but it’s not going to be pulling down his pants because he believes it will terrify members of the KKK. I don’t necessarily think that Spencer was necessarily stupid. He might know how to rebuild automobiles and write code for all I know - but he’s still living in a world of strong biases and perceptions, and he Cohen was feeding those biases. In fact, right after Cohen (the instructor) corrects him about the n-word, there’s a moment at which it almost seems that Spencer kinda suspects, just for an instant, that he might be getting pranked. It’s an awkward moment. He could have backed out there. But he didn’t. Why? Because he Cohen was feeding his perceptions of reality about Muslims, and Spencer believed in it so strongly that he felt compelled to continue his mission, even when it was already beginning to dawn on him that he was humiliating himself. And that’s one of the most important points that Cohen’s little experiment teaches us: people will go to unimaginably ridiculous lengths to defend and act on their own biases. Now if someone is willing to scream racial epithets and pull down his ass crack and walk around like a toddler who just shit his pants in an attempt to fight Islam…what else do you think he might be capable of to attack his perceived enemies? Remember, too, until last week, this was a member of a pretty high elected office, someone with real power, who was voted into power by thousands of like-minded people. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-all-heard-the-latest-political-victim-of-sacha-baron-cohens-new-political-show/818485/65 "2018-07-31T17:19:03Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > It reveals a significant difference in how progressives and conservatives think. Progressives live in a fact-based world; conservatives live in a world that is based on perception and imaginary demons, which enables them to suspend reality for a moment and go to the kinds of depths that Spencer and the gun rights fanatics went to. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cesSRfXqS1Q/hqdefault.jpg "Guam will Capsize and Tip Over into the ocean Hank Johnson") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-all-heard-the-latest-political-victim-of-sacha-baron-cohens-new-political-show/818485/66 "2018-07-31T17:33:07Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > That doesn’t really explain much. _How_ did he think that baring his ass to the camera was going to stop terrorists? They’d all run away screaming when they saw his fat, pasty white tuchus, I guess. SBC’s brand of humor is too off the wall even for me. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-all-heard-the-latest-political-victim-of-sacha-baron-cohens-new-political-show/818485/67 "2018-07-31T17:36:46Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Right, just different kinds of stupid, like believing that all illnesses are curable with the right diet, that modern medicine is a scam, or other quackery. I don’t even think these are the proper comparisons, since these are all well known and people already have opinions about them. But suppose you had some guy posing (via media entity vouching) as a reputable geologist warning that the Earth’s crust could completely collapse from any more fracking (or something like that). I bet you would pull in quite a lot of elected leftists to participate in PR announcements decrying the possibility, ridiculous as it would seem once the taping is done and everyone is mocking it. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-all-heard-the-latest-political-victim-of-sacha-baron-cohens-new-political-show/818485/68 "2018-07-31T18:07:48Z")
[quote=“Bricker, post:65, topic:818485”] [/QUOTE] Well…you win. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-all-heard-the-latest-political-victim-of-sacha-baron-cohens-new-political-show/818485.md?page=3)