“Borat” star Sacha Baron Cohen exposed the far right’s hysteria when it comes to dealing with the second largest religion in the world: Islam. In the latest episode of his show “Who is America” Cohen, who was disguised as an Israeli terrorist expert, approached Georgia State Rep. Jason Spencer to appear in a video that would train lawmakers how to defend themselves against terrorists.
Warning: Video contains graphic content.
“All you damn sand-n***ers over in the Middle East, we are tired of you coming to America and we are tired of you trying to threaten us,” Spencer says in a post-credits video titled, “A Message to Terrorists from Rep. Jason Spencer.”
The state senator goes on to say: “We will cut off your d*ck, you understand We will take your d*ck and we will shove it in your mouth. How are you going to rape children and women without a d*ck”
He said all this while exposing his buttocks to the camera, per request by the host. Spencer has very little to lose after his bid for a fourth term in the statehouse ended sooner than he expected, losing in the Georgia Republican primary. The representative blamed Baron Cohen for provoking him. Earlier in the show he pretended to be a Chinese man in order to detect terrorist body parts with a camera. Later in the program he pretended to be a gay man because Muslims are scared of them.
The 43-year-old is not the least bit new to sparking controversy. He once equated the Catholic Church to a child predator sexual lobby. As for his legislative career he once introduced a bill that would have banned Muslims from wearing veils.
Last year, he threatened former state Rep. LaDawn Jones, a Black woman. Spencer said she would not be “met with torches but something a lot more definitive” if she persisted in calling for the removal of Confederate statues in south Georgia. He also suggested that someone who didn’t understand this “will go missing in the Okefenokee” swamp.
Many fellow Republicans are quick to condone the lame duck assemblyman as Georgia House Speaker David Ralston said, “Representative Spencer has disgraced himself and should resign immediately, Georgia is better than this.”
Even though the governor didn’t go as far as speaker Ralston he did take Twitter to say, “The actions and language used by Jason Spencer are appalling and offensive. There is no excuse for this type of behavior, ever, and I am saddened and disgusted by it.”
Even with all the fallout the outgoing congressman puts the blame squarely on Baron Cohen. He is refusing to step down insisting he was fooled into this.
“As uncomfortable as I was to participate, I agreed to, understanding that these ‘techniques’ were meant to help me and others fend off what I believed was an inevitable attack,” Spencer wrote. “My fears were so heightened at that time, I was not thinking clearly nor could I appreciate what I was agreeing to when I participated in his ‘class.’ I was told I would be filmed as a ‘demonstration video’ to teach others the same skills in Israel.”
