When Candid Camera goes awry…
I’m not a frequent viewer of Da Ali G Show, but I kind of like his act. It’s a bit like Candid Camera turned on end. His characters are at once so normal and so twisted that he gets some amazing reactions to questions like, “So, as director of Homeland Security, is you afraid of terrorists hijacking a train and driving it into the Pentagon?”
Of course, while many people do actually have a sense of humor, they’re not always willing to share in your joke. Take, for instance, the folks at the rodeo in Salem (which happens to be in the red state this Liberal blogger calls home).
Introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan, he was said to be an immigrant touring America. A film crew was with him, doing some sort of documentary. And he wanted to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” to show his appreciation, the announcer told the crowd.Speaking in broken English, the mysterious man first told the decidedly pro-American crowd – it was a rodeo, of all things, in Salem, of all places – that he supported the war on terrorism.
“I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards,” he said, according to Brett Sharp of Star Country WSLC, who was also on stage that night as a media sponsor of the rodeo.
An uneasy murmur ran through the crowd.
“And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq,” he continued, according to Robynn Jaymes, who co-hosts a morning radio show with Sharp and was also among the stunned observers.