Saturday, November 25, 2006  Very nice?  Liberals start to turn
against Borat.  It seems the Borat character, initially welcomed
by US and UK liberals as he made them feel all superior to those
pesky rednecks, are starting to get uncomfortable about their
own laughter.  The film is on general release in Poland from
this weekend. See 'Borat and the Polish connection' here.
sonia said...  Actually, the fact that Sacha Cohen decided to
make Borat into a Kazakh is in itself proof of the growing
influence of Poles in the West. Earlier, he would simply be a
Polish country bumpkin, but since the popularity of 'Polack
jokes' is on the decline, Cohen decided to move further east to
Kazakhastan with his character... (but kept 'jak sie masz' as a
souvenir...)...  opamp said...  sonia: fully agreed.  It should
be also noted that the inhabitants of the Romanian (sic!)
village shown in the film as Borat's native Kazakh village are
now suing the film makers for defamation. See:  Also, the film
has been banned in Russia (!