Scene - Israeli Knesset

"Netanyahu aide: There is no Palestinian leadership."

Someone mentions an Arab sounding name to the aide.

Aide puts an angry and worried expression on his face.

Picks up phone and calls the IDF.

scene - helicopter gunship takes off.

scene - Arab family having dinner.

scene - helicopter targets house

scene - Arab family having dinner

scene - helicopter shoots missile at house

scene - house blows up

scene - body parts

scene - Israeli Knesset

The phone rings, Netanyahu aide pics up phone, listens and smiles. Hangs up phone.

"Netanyahu aide: There is no Palestinian leadership."

Turns to camera and winks and says, "Why? Because we kill them."

/laughter and hillarity

Having lived in America and having many American friends I have come to one unfailing true realisation about your beautiful country and its overly earnest inhabitants: you all take yourselves much too seriously, especially Americans with a cause.

Brüno is a hero. He is a big unashamedly flag waving gay caricature who shoves it in your face and makes you face your inner bigot. And he makes it ok to laugh at yourself. Something which the gay cause sorely needs to be able to do. He exposes the vapidness of the fashionistas and the anti-gay sentiment that still lies in more people than I would like to admit. In the same way that Borat brought out the anti-Semite in the people he interviewed Brüno is on a crusade for gay rights. And it is so sad to see so many on that side of the cultural war fail to get the joke. Let me put it this way, many manly straight friends of mine are coming to see this movie with me tomorrow night and we are all really excited. Not too long ago the idea of some of these guys going to see a movie with a gay lead character would have been literally unthinkable. They are pretty normal people but believe it or not they GET that Brüno is lambasting the bigotry and shallowness of the people he is interviewing.

One thing I can understand is that people are uncomfortable that they are really laughing AT these people being interviewed as opposed to with them. However in my experience there is no better weapon against these societal ailments than laughing at them and I'm sorry but these views deserve to be laughed at. To truly deconstruct this viewpoint you need to realise how ridiculous it is.

Grow up. Brüno is proof that the tipping point is far behind us. There may be battles to come but the average person now believes that gay people are just people, nothing more nor less. And there's nothing more endearing in a person than an ability to laugh at oneself.

And Sacha continues to laugh all the way to the bank. Another well-deserved moneymaker.

I don't think you get satire. What you consider satire is real funny as long as it doesn't target one group of people. If it did, then it would be considered vile hate speech and would not be hyped by every branch of the MSM.

Was "A Modest Proposal" hate speech? Who did it target, the Irish or the British?

What are Cohen's targets and why?

Too be fair, I have not watched his movies and do not intend to. Racists, bigots and assholes do not need my money.

Look, we've all grown up in post Civil Rights Movement America, so we're all aware (and hopefully most are actually sensitive) to how hurtful stereotypical humor can feel to the unwilling targets of such humor. HOWEVER: Conscientious, responsible adults should be allowed to enjoy a good dirty joke, ethnic joke, cripple joke, dead-baby joke, fag joke, blonde joke, trailer-trash joke, Texan joke, Republican joke, Democrat joke, Michael Jackson joke, Christopher Reeve joke, ANY kind of offensive, off-color bit of humor we want every now and then, without feeling bad about it. Anyone remember Lenny Bruce? Remember what he fought so hard for? Remember what his basic tenet was? It was, in short, that "dirty words" and pejoratives are given the power to hurt and offend because they're hidden and cloaked by shame and outrage, not when they're allowed to be exposed to the light of day and freely repeated to the point at which they no longer have that power, that they become just a bunch of funny sounds. It's people's continued outrage and umbrage, their overblown indignation that perpetuates these feelings of being targeted, marginalized and reviled. We're all adults, aren't we? We can feel ok about laughing at something we know to be ridiculous, absurd and grossly exaggerated, like Bruno, can't we? IT'S JUST COMEDY, THEY'RE ONLY JOKES, GET OVER IT ALREADY, GIRLFRIEND! (Snap! Snap!)

I have just read a press release that claims Sacha Baron Cohen, not Brüno, actually feared for his life after a crowd in Arkansas went wild and displayed the very caveman-like behavior toward the idea of two men kissing that Cohen had so graciously come to Arkansas to expose. The event is a cage fight (which has replaced quilting as Arkansas' favorite pastime). The report is from the Brüno movie website:

"Seconds after the kiss, attendees became furious. Soon after, one member of the crowd unwired a chair and threw it at Baron Cohen’s head. At that point, it was a near riot and the performers were rushed from the premises. Audience members and other fighters alike were screaming epithets and surrounding the bus and the field team. It ended after a stand off that lasted many hours, with 40 police officers from the Fort Smith division helping to rescue the cast and crew and quell the angry mob."

Presmably, after being escorted from the event by 40 police officers, Cohen congratulated himself on his bravery and denounced Satan worship in West Virginia as well.

Evidently the author is unfamiliar with Scott Thompson's Buddy Cole character.

Dude, you are one mentally ill puppy. Seriously.

"Gays should live their lives more privately" I mean what the fuck? Do you live your life "more privately"? What does that even mean? Does it mean they shouldn't associate with other gay men or go out on dates in public? What? Things that heterosexual couples do?

You are a bigot, pure and simple. FYI, as someone who would know, the 10% figure is pretty accurate. Because you don't think there are that many out there doesn't make it so-it's just that you wouldn't have any idea who was homosexual and who was not-how could you? People you interact with every day-how would you know unless you knew them personally? You don't. And don't give me this shit about how people can tell. You can't. You may be able to spot a stereotype. I guarantee you, though, that you cross paths with more people who are homosexual that you think.

Don't worry, no one wants to rape your tender, trauma-prone straight-man ass (which is probably fat, anyway).