I think Digby
has it right...if you can't beat 'em, mock 'em! Apparently Sacha Baron Cohen has taken the concept to heart, and
given some red-staters fits:
Ali G comic Sacha Baron Cohen is being blamed for a hoax which enraged cowboys at a US rodeo.
The comedian's other alter ego, bumbling Kazakhstani Borat Sagdiyev, is the chief suspect behind the stunt at a rodeo at Salem, Virginia.
It started when a 'Middle Eastern man in an American flag shirt and a cowboy hat' was introduced to the crowd as Borat Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan, an immigrant touring America.
Speaking in broken English, the man said: "I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards. And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq."
He then told the crowd to be seated, put his hat back on, and launched into a butchered version of The Star-Spangled Banner that ended with the words "your home in the grave".
By then, a restless crowd had turned downright nasty, according to the Roanoke Times.
"If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him," said local radio DJ Robynn Jaymes. "People were booing him, flipping him off."
Rodeo producer Bobby Rowe added: "Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot."
A spokesman for Da Ali G Show said it was not currently in production and would make no further comment.
...like I said if you can't beat 'em mock 'em! All hail Sacha Baron Cohen - a true patriot.