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- A gun-rights activist who Sacha Baron Cohen duped in the pilot episode of his new Showtime series “Who Is America?” wrote a 1,400-word Facebook post about his experience of filming his segment in April, as a “warning” to fellow conservatives.
- Philip Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, wrote that he suspected he’d been the “victim” of “someone like Michael Moore, or, even worse, a Sacha Baron Cohen-esq ‘Borat’-type of shock comedy meant to be devastatingly embarrassing and humiliating to the victim in the crosshairs.”
In the strongest segment of the pilot for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime satirical series, “Who Is America?,” Cohen, disguised as an Israel “anti-terror expert,” convinces conservative politicians and gun-rights advocates to endorse a program that would arm American toddlers with guns.
One of Cohen’s unsuspecting guests, Philip Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, who recognized that he was being duped after filming his part for the show, wrote a 1,400-word Facebook post recapping his experience on the project as a “warning” to fellow gun advocates and conservatives way back in April, The Daily Beast reported.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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