{"id":166,"date":"2006-11-02T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/virtualtalmud\/2006\/11\/borat-archie-bunker-or-andy-kaufman.html"},"modified":"2006-11-02T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T10:38:00","slug":"borat-archie-bunker-or-andy-kaufman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2006\/11\/borat-archie-bunker-or-andy-kaufman.html","title":{"rendered":"Borat–Archie Bunker or Andy Kaufman?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rabbi Grossman<\/a> and some of our respondents worry that the character of Borat will be taken as anti-Kazakh, which in turn triggers a mind-numbing satiric chain to untangle: a Jew mocking Kazakhs mocking Jews\u2026<\/p>\n

In fact, one of the most salient aspects of Baron Cohen\u2019s performance is that he rarely gives an interview out of character, appearing in the media as Borat to the point that he routinely refuses to grant interviews to female and Jewish interviewers<\/a>. (Apparently he\u2019s willing to make an exception for Jon Stewart<\/a>\u2013even Borat\u2019s not that dumb.)<\/p>\n

Pushing his persona one step further heightens the absurdities of identity politics that Baron Cohen is looking to highlight. As Ali G would say, \u201cIs it because I is black?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rabbi Grossman and some of our respondents worry that the character of Borat will be taken as anti-Kazakh, which in turn triggers a mind-numbing satiric chain to untangle: a Jew mocking Kazakhs mocking Jews\u2026 In fact, one of the most salient aspects of Baron Cohen\u2019s performance is that he rarely gives an interview out of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBorat-Archie Bunker or Andy Kaufman? - Virtual Talmud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2006\/11\/borat-archie-bunker-or-andy-kaufman.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Borat-Archie Bunker or Andy Kaufman? 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