{"id":80521,"date":"2018-07-12T09:31:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T13:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80521"},"modified":"2018-07-12T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T13:31:30","slug":"sacha-baron-cohens-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80521","title":{"rendered":"Sacha Baron Cohen’s Stolen Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Folks are coming out of the woodwork<\/a> exposing Sacha Baron Cohen for his latest buffoonery pretending to be an injured veteran, complete with wheelchair, for his new show on Showtime. In this persona, Cohen interviewed Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney and former Congressman Joe Walsh.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Sarah Palin wrote a blog post claiming that Cohen disguised himself as a disabled veteran for an interview with her and calling Cohen\u2019s humor \u201cevil, exploitive, sick.\u201d Now congressman turned radio host Joe Walsh has shared his own experience. Walsh says Cohen\u2019s team flew him to D.C. and booked him a hotel room for a fake pro-Israel event that honored him with an award for his \u201cSignificant Contributions to the State of Israel.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“Out of respect for what I was led to believe would be a thoughtful discussion with someone who had served in uniform, I sat through a long ‘interview’ full of Hollywoodism\u2019s disrespect and sarcasm \u2014 but finally had enough and literally, physically removed my mic and walked out, much to Cohen\u2019s chagrin,” Palin elaborated. “The disrespect of our U.S. military and middle-class Americans via Cohen\u2019s foreign commentaries under the guise of interview questions was perverse.”<\/p>\n

Palin, who served as the ninth Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009, then offered a “challenge” to Cohen, CBS and Showtime.<\/p>\n

“Donate all proceeds to a charitable group that actually respects and supports American Vets. Mock politicians and innocent public personalities all you want, if that lets you sleep at night, but HOW DARE YOU mock those who have fought and served our country,” she wrote, adding, “Truly sick.”<\/p>\n

Palin also claimed that “the Cohen\/CBS\/Showtime production team purposefully dropped my daughter and me off at the wrong Washington, DC airport after the fake interview, knowing we\u2019d miss all flights back home to Alaska.” She added, “I wrote this off as yet another example of the sick nature that is media-slash-entertainment today.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

In a teaser for Cohen’s satirical half-hour series, released via Instagram, the comic \u2014 presumably in character \u2014 can be heard asking former Vice President Dick Cheney to sign his “waterboard kit.” Cheney is seen signing something and then jokes, “That’s the first time I’ve ever signed a waterboard.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, Showtime says that Cohen is a comedy genius “who shocks you with his audacity, bravery and inventiveness” when, in truth, he’s just another drone playing to the Hollywood crowd. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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