The Village Voice gave Bruno a very positive review, and I really want to see it. It says it does for homophobia what Borat did for anti-semitism: Make fun of it, even though extremely.

(And, I'm 'one of the gays', as you put it. I.e., I'm a homosexual, since I was born to be that).

Oh shit, we all knew you'd show up like an anal wart at some point.

Laurel, you are a flat-out bigot. I've said so before. Does your husband go down to Flex to suck cock? Is that why you have a problem with homosexuals?

Someone needs to buy you new batteries for your vibrator so that maybe you'll have something else to do with your time other than making really D-game comments on Salon.

And by the way, you stupid fucking cow, I was only recounting a story. I am not the one who said those things. Major differnce, dumbfuck.

Now THAT I would have liked to see...

Bruno... eh... whatevs... beating up on dumb red state yokels feels very Bush-era to me...

Cohen's brand of ambush humor is the real world equivalent of Internet trolling. It's not Swiftian satire, it's self-aggrandizing crap. Cohen provokes easy marks and, when he inevitably gets the response he and we all expect, he presents it as combination entertainment/moral victory. Wow, how ground breaking.

I'm a parade-watching, equality-cheering, government-petitioning friend of a friend of Dorothy, and if Cohen pulled this shit on me, I'd probably come off on camera like a homophobe too.

God, what an asshole.

"Just like his predecessor, Borat, who exposed America's vulgarity, ignorance and, more darkly, its entrenched anti-Semitism..."

Don't agree at all. Almost all of the anti-Semitism in Borat comes from Borat. Aside from a tattoo artist who seems to just be going along with him, I can't think of any anti-Semitism that was exposed. In fact, the best part of Borat was a DVD outtake in which Baron Cohen asks an employee at a dog pound which dog would be best for defending him against Jews and she tells him off and kicks him out of the pound.

Maybe is next project should be about exposing elitism and class bias. He's already shot all the material that he needs.

Let me start off with full disclosure: I am a Conservative Republican who is also an observant Jew. Now that I've stated that openly, you leftist homo-activist can now begin your typical red herring attacks which is your modus operandi. The fact of the matter is that the only people who are ever going to see this movie are the sad and mentally damaged homosexuals for whom this movie might have some demented meaning, and the handful of straight people who have been bullied into a false sense of guilt about being straight. This is a repulsive movie, about a repulsive subject which is repulsive to the more than 90% of the normal people in the world. Yes, I said normal, implying that homosexuality is not normal, nor should it be emraced in any way shape or form by normal society. It should be pushed back into the closet where it belongs, and this movie should (and I can gaurantee that it will) end up on the thrash heap of history along with every other example of schlock cinema that panders to a segment of human society that is completely abnormal.

It's adorable how so many of you are quick to nod along with Rakoff's sober, self-righteous indignation like the knee-jerk liberal dittoheads you are. None of you have seen the film, yet you're happy to take the word of a reviewer who is so pure, so cleansed from pop culture, that he proudly claims he has no television in his first sentence. You might as well read a music review from a deaf man.

She wrote, "If the film is truly funny, which I imagine I will hear about from the afore-mentioned friends, I might go see it (or not) when it hits the 2nd run theater, as in this recession, I am far too poor to slam down $9.50 a ticket at the 1st run theater."

Now, why post at length at Salon about queer people if you're too poor to see a movie? Wouldn't your time be better spent earning? I suspect that much homobigotry is like Laura's: it rises from the desire to distract the bigot from their failings, financial and otherwise.

Also, Laura, when you write about your gay friends, you do so without any consciousness that alleged gay friends are offered by many homobigots as refutation that they aren't bigots.

It's like Michael Jackson writing, "Jew me, sue me … kike me, don't you black or white me..." in the song "They Don't Care About Us" and then telling Diane Sawyer, "that he wasn't being anti-Semitic, because his lawyers, his accountants, and 'my two best friends are Jewish.'"

Thanks for illustrating the point I make in my previous post.

you're a hick.

But I'm not a hickphobe. Some of my best friends are hicks.

Seriously, I think Spoincey's strain of homobigotry arises from a loathing of his self. He contemplates man on man and is disgusted because his own body disgusts him. His homophobia is a fear of his self/homo.

Normalcy is the majority.

Therefore,

Men are abnormal.

Caucasians are abnormal.

Christians are abnormal.

And so on.

Thanks for illustrating the point I make in my previous previous post.

has been meddling with his legs just like my babuschka who had very hairy ones. She used hot candle-grease and you could hear her yelling as far as the steppes. She was a flaxen-haired beauty even at 92 but I'm wondering now if she was bleaching it. According to Mr. Nanki Piu Pu (what a liar!) Americans are now bleaching the posterior opening of the alimentary canal so that the man-in-the-moon can see them and welcome them to his planet. Sounds like poppycock to me but Daphne, who's Australian, agrees with him. Mr. Cohen should get a medal from your Congress for explaining your mysterious ways to the rest of the world. I like Miss Bigguns and her friend. They just shoot from the hip and very often from under it. They eat lots of jambalaya, no?

Although I'll be looking at California from a zoological point of view, as a proud member of FSB I'll take more than a "gander" at Alaska. I verry much like Mrs. Palin; she's a whole lot of woman and Vlad fancies her too. He shoots brown bears and she shoots the gray ones. Now that we're all on the Internet we can learn all about each other and you have an open invite to the Black Sea. You'll have to wait to see if the Chinese will ask you to tour the Yellow Sea but Mr. Nanki Piu Pu is keeping his own counsel on that one. Dmitri has been interrupting my conversational English class with Daphne as he throws yet another tantrum. He's what you call in USA cross-dresser and is verray cross because we didn't like his dress. He's a bit round the twist but what would you expect when he drinks a litre of vodka for breakfast.