Oh, Borat!
Kazakhstan Strips Borat of Site
Kazakhstan's self-proclaimed "sixth-most popular journalist" Borat Sagdiyev has thrown his support behind his country's recent threats to take legal action against Da Ali G Show mastermind Sacha Baron Cohen for allegedly ridiculing the nation.
"I like to state I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my government's decision to sue this Jew," Borat recently proclaimed on his official Website, www.borat.kz.
"I like to state I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my government's decision to sue this Jew," Borat recently proclaimed on his official Website, www.borat.kz.
"Since the 2003 reforms, Kazakhstan is as civilized as any other country in the world. Women can now travel on inside of bus, homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats and age of consent has been raised to 8 years old.
"Please, captain of industry, I invite you to come to Kazakhstan, where we have incredible natural resources, hard-working labor and some of the cleanest prostitutes in all of central Asia. Goodbye."
Despite Borat's impassioned pledge of camaraderie, the Kazakhstan government was unmoved and responded by shutting down his Website.
"We've done this so he can't badmouth Kazakhstan under the .kz domain name," Nurlan Isin, President of the Association of Kazakh IT Companies, told Reuters on Tuesday. "He can go and do whatever he wants at other domains."
Isin said the borat.kz site had broken new rules governing all .kz domains and had registered false names for its administrators.
Borat, who is, of course, one of Cohen's alter egos on his Emmy-nominated HBO program, infuriated Kazakhstani officials when he hosted the MTV Europe Music Awards last month, and made quips about his wife's inability to travel outside the country's borders because of her gender and the Kazakh's preferred sport of shooting dogs.
"We view Mr. Cohen's behavior at the MTV Europe Music Awards as utterly unacceptable, being a concoction of bad taste and ill manners, which is completely incompatible with ethics and civilized behavior," foreign ministry spokesman Yerzham Ashykbayev told reporters.
As if mounting a defense against the comic's degradation of the nation, the Kazakhstan government promptly took out a four-page spread in the New York Times, touting the country's natural resources and calling Kazakhstan a "model" for gender equality.
Meanwhile, London's Independent published a Kazakh-friendly article headlined: "What You Won't Learn From Borat: 50 Things You May Not Have Known." Among the nation's qualities seemingly overlooked by the intrepid reporter: it is "the ninth-largest country in the world," "hunting is no longer a popular pastime" and "the word 'Kazakh' means 'independent' or 'wanderer'."
Though he may no longer have an official Website on which to air his views, Borat has no plans to fade into obscurity, despite the best efforts of the Kazakhstan government.
Cohen is currently working on crafting his character's exploits into a full-length mockumentary, titled Borat: The Movie. The end result is due out next year.
"Please, captain of industry, I invite you to come to Kazakhstan, where we have incredible natural resources, hard-working labor and some of the cleanest prostitutes in all of central Asia. Goodbye."
Despite Borat's impassioned pledge of camaraderie, the Kazakhstan government was unmoved and responded by shutting down his Website.
"We've done this so he can't badmouth Kazakhstan under the .kz domain name," Nurlan Isin, President of the Association of Kazakh IT Companies, told Reuters on Tuesday. "He can go and do whatever he wants at other domains."
Isin said the borat.kz site had broken new rules governing all .kz domains and had registered false names for its administrators.
Borat, who is, of course, one of Cohen's alter egos on his Emmy-nominated HBO program, infuriated Kazakhstani officials when he hosted the MTV Europe Music Awards last month, and made quips about his wife's inability to travel outside the country's borders because of her gender and the Kazakh's preferred sport of shooting dogs.
"We view Mr. Cohen's behavior at the MTV Europe Music Awards as utterly unacceptable, being a concoction of bad taste and ill manners, which is completely incompatible with ethics and civilized behavior," foreign ministry spokesman Yerzham Ashykbayev told reporters.
As if mounting a defense against the comic's degradation of the nation, the Kazakhstan government promptly took out a four-page spread in the New York Times, touting the country's natural resources and calling Kazakhstan a "model" for gender equality.
Meanwhile, London's Independent published a Kazakh-friendly article headlined: "What You Won't Learn From Borat: 50 Things You May Not Have Known." Among the nation's qualities seemingly overlooked by the intrepid reporter: it is "the ninth-largest country in the world," "hunting is no longer a popular pastime" and "the word 'Kazakh' means 'independent' or 'wanderer'."
Though he may no longer have an official Website on which to air his views, Borat has no plans to fade into obscurity, despite the best efforts of the Kazakhstan government.
Cohen is currently working on crafting his character's exploits into a full-length mockumentary, titled Borat: The Movie. The end result is due out next year.
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posted by Dayray @ 5:30 AM
1 Comments:
At 2:21 PM,
Myke said…
Jegshumesh!
Go Borat- you are tight like a man's awh-noose.
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