The fake documentary responsible for my good time and bad conscience has the rather unwieldy title "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."[...]
The lawyers for the pigeons who appear as themselves will doubtlessly argue that they had no idea that they were being made to look like racist fools and ignoramuses and that whatever release they signed doesn't cover the prospect of worldwide humiliation.
Borat:
Oh, dear.
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All this has left the Kazakhstan government unamused. It has threatened to sue. It shut down Borat's Kazakh Web site. Last month, it took out full-page newspaper ads to counter "damaging slurs." But last week Kazakhstan finally got its public relations apparatus up and running. "We must have a sense of humor and respect for other people's freedom of creativity," a deputy foreign minister told The Scotsman. "I'd like to invite Cohen here. Women drive cars, wine is made of grapes, and Jews are free to go to synagogue." The PR efforts seemed to be going well -- until Kazakhstan's central bank printed millions of new notes and misspelled the word "bank."
Allegedly the first four minutes of the movie. Enjoy!
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