Bruno May Have Manufactured His Villain
When Sacha Baron Cohen went on the Late Show to discuss his movie Bruno, he bragged about meeting a real terrorist. Now the guy in question says he hasn’t been a terrorist for years.
Ayman Abu Aita told right-wing website WorldNetDaily that he quit Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in 2003 and now represents its affiliated political party, Fatah, in the West Bank town of Beit Sahor. And rather than meeting Cohen at a “secret location,” as Cohen told Letterman, he met him at a popular restaurant called Everest in the part of the West Bank under Israeli control. It would have been impossible, Aita said, for him to have a weapon as Cohen told Letterman he feared.
Now the Brigades are upset to be featured in a “stupid… homosexual film.”
Or so we are to believe! All of this information comes via WND’s Aaron Klein, who has himself invented news: His researcher altered Barack Obama’s Wikipedia page so Klein could write about the deletion of the researcher’s comments. So we have here basically a crazy-quilt of questionable information. Where does the satire end and the news begin; where does the lying start; and what ever happened to a little good old fashioned exaggeration?
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@Pinekatz: Oh wait. It wasn't a better house. It was actual shelter. And I don't know that it was a college fund to be exact. I think it was money to be used to sustain life at some point in the future, when the need to sustain life might arise, not right now. Later.
Ayman looks mean as fuck and displayed appropriate loathing for Bruno. That just screams terrorist to me. I don't need to know more.
He should hook up with the Slumdog children and find out how to get a better house and a college fund.
OMG - a fake documentarian/comedian made something up? Noes!
I haven't been old for YEARS....
Once a terrorist ALWAYS a terrorist! STAY THE COURSE. bahaaaaha
Baron Cohen: I’d like to come on to promote Brüno. Letterman: Sure, Sacha, but you have to come on as yourself. We want the real you, the truth. Enough of the character baloney. Tell us something that actually happened.
Baron Cohen: Alright, then. I’ll come on and recount how we negotiated a meeting with a terrorist in a secret location in Jerusalem without the Israeli authorities finding out.
Letterman: Great! Now that’s what I’m talking about!
I will tolerate a lot of things from you liberals, but inferring that SBC is anything other than an honest, upstanding fraudulent comedian is not one of them. The movie is funny, even if this doesn't turn out to be the life threatening segment that I originally thought it was. I am quite sure that he was almost legitimately killed several times during the making of this film.
^^^^^^
Iwillnotauditionforastar
@Iwillnotauditionforastar: 15 minutes my butt. You can't even leave the tab.
Iwillnotauditionforastar
Iwillnotauditionforastar
@MisterHippity: Yes nice headline! The bit about Obama's altered wiki is also choice; a bit of manufacturing consent there on the part of Klein, et al.
dontread
Is being a terrorist really one of those things you can stop being.
WarnerMinnows
i beg to differ: http://beirut.craigslist.org/
the_lerpa
I love Cohen's weird headturn brow twitch he does every time he makes a bad joke. It's awkward and sexy.
Ryan, that has to be one of the best Gawker headlines ever.