Tone Deaf CBS Cheers Some Violent Rioters as Fairly Cool (If Hollywood Makes a Film About Them)

To tell you how contactless CBS journalists are, they have been busily promoting the role of left-wing actor Sacha Baron Cohen as a violent communist agitator without the slightest hint of controversy. This is just weeks after a violent uprising in the Capitol. Talk about deaf. On Friday’s program, the hosts raved about the “brilliant” “revolutionary” Cohen, who is known for mocking conservatives with borate.

Now Cohen plays the radical Abbie Hoffman of the 1960s. Hoffman, a “vocal communist”, was found guilty of instigating a violent uprising at the 1968 Democratic Convention. But co-moderator Anthony Mason has the radical as one of the “political activists tried for their demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the 1968 National Democratic Convention. “He offered his version of a compliment and praised the actor:” In many ways he is very much like you.”

How does that sound just three weeks after the uprising in the Capitol? Didn’t Mason come to mind at all during the segment?

Cohen, equally deaf, loved the praise: “I mean, that’s a big compliment. I would say it’s really inspiring. I mean, he realized the power of humor to challenge certain things that he found immoral in society. “

According to the City Journal, the real Hoffman called for a “giant orgasm of destruction” at the 1968 Democratic Congress. In other words, CBS and left-wing celebs like Cohen like violent, seditious thugs only while they are Right kind from violent, seditious thugs. Here is a quote Von Hoffman in 1975 of his beliefs: “I’ve always said I was an anarchist or maybe a hedonistic communist, but all over the world people understand that the force that fights for them is communism.”

Mason shifted the interview to Cohen’s other role and mocked conservatives through string films. He cheered: “Baron Cohen has earned himself a reputation as a revolutionary. Through the outrageous behavior of his own characters, he gets people to reveal their inner prejudices. Especially as a notorious journalist from Kazakhstan, Borat.”

Cohen, very radical, wants more Big Tech censorship. Mason found no controversy there:

ANTHONY MASON: But in a speech to the Anti-Defamation League in 2019, he spoke out publicly against social media companies for the first time.

SACHA BARON COHEN: All this hatred and violence is backed by a handful of internet companies that are the biggest propaganda machine in history.

MASON: Baron Cohen thought he had retired his legendary boat character, but decided to bring him back before the 2020 Borat Subsequent Movie Film elections. The Kazakh reporter crashes a truly conservative conference dressed as President Trump in a heavy suit and prosthetic limbs trying to get to Vice President Mike Pence. To put the actor’s own safety at risk for satire.

COHEN: This wasn’t a prank film. This was my form of peaceful protest.

Co-host Gayle King couldn’t get enough of the commie-loving censorship fan: “The beauty of what he does – because I think he’s brilliant at what he brings to the screen.” She pointed to his censorship goals: “He got a lot of attention when he talked about social media in 2019 where people were like, ‘Let me have a look. ‘He made some really very strong points. “

Apparently, it never occurred to the CBS hosts that they make a living from free speech. Like the irony of praising an actor for his role as a violent agitator just weeks after a real life riot, they didn’t find him strange.

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CBS this morning

22/01/2021

8:14 ET

ANTHONY MASON: British actor, writer and producer Sacha Baron Cohen has appeared in two of the most critically acclaimed films of the past year. He surprised the world with the release of a pre-election sequel to Borat and starred in Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago Seven. Both are considered Oscar contenders. In an exclusive interview with him, we spoke to Sacha Baron Cohen about why he was so motivated to make both films.

[Clip from The Trial of the Chicago Seven]

MASON: Sacha Baron Cohen followed Abbie Hoffman in the Chicago Seven trial for 13 years.

SACHA BARON COHEN: I just found him this incredibly fun, charismatic character who, underneath, was incredibly brave and ready to give his life to fight injustice. So I had to play it.

MASON: Hoffman was one of the real Chicago Seven. Political activists tried at the 1968 National Democratic Convention for their anti-Vietnam War demonstrations. In many ways, he is very similar to you.

MASON: I mean, that’s a big compliment. I would say it’s really inspiring. I mean, he saw the power of humor in challenging certain things that he found immoral in society. He always says, “We have to go where the cameras are.”

[Clip from The Trial of the Chicago Seven]

MASON: Baron Cohen has earned himself a reputation as a revolutionary. Through the outrageous behavior of his own characters, he gets people to reveal their inner prejudices. Especially as a notorious journalist from Kazakhstan, Borat.

[Clip from Borat.]

MASON: This achievement earned him a golden globe in 2007.

COHEN: Thank you to every American who hasn’t sued me so far. Many Thanks.

MASON: As a kid growing up in North West London, Baron Cohen fell in love with comedy.

COHEN: Actually, me and my brother improvised songs. There was an old South African 95 year old pianist who used to come to my parents’ house. She would say, you know, “One day you will be in Hollywood, she will love you.” We say, “Yes, yes, that’s right, Grandma. Of course we will. “It seemed so ridiculous.

MASON: Despite his success, the 49-year-old comedian was reluctant to give interviews himself.

COHEN: Probably part of that is uncertainty. But a lot of it is that I just didn’t want to be recognized, I didn’t see the benefit of becoming famous as myself.

MASON: In a speech to the Anti-Defamation League in 2019, he spoke out publicly against social media companies for the first time.

COHEN: All of this hatred and violence is backed by a handful of internet companies that make up the greatest propaganda machine in history.

MASON: Baron Cohen believed he had retired his legendary boat character but decided to bring him back before the 2020 Borat Subsequent Movie Film elections. The Kazakh reporter crashes a Conservative conference in a fat suit and prosthetic limb as President Trump tries to come to Vice President Mike Pence. To put the actor’s own safety at risk for satire.

COHEN: This wasn’t a prank film. This was my form of peaceful protest.

MASON: In those moments you risk arrest or sometimes something even more dangerous.

COHEN: So that was the first film in which I was advised to wear a bulletproof vest during some scenes. One of them was at a gun rally in Washington state where I sang a song for the Wuhan flu.

MASON: In the end, you got chased off the stage.

COHEN: Yeah. A group of armed members of the crowd stormed the stage and overwhelmed security. And one of them actually reached for his pistol. And I was very lucky that I had an amazing bodyguard who grabbed the man’s arm and told him he whispered the phrase “It’s not worth it buddy.”

MASON: Was there ever a point where you said to yourself why am I doing this?

COHEN: Throughout the film. I remember going to the bathroom before that gun rally, putting on a bulletproof vest and looking at myself in the mirror, just thinking, “I must be completely crazy. What you are doing?”

MASON: At one point he spent five days with two conspiracy theorists in COVID lockdown. It’s the longest time he’s ever had to stay in character.

COHEN: I think I was about to have a panic attack because there was no crew. I thought how do I do this? So how am I not supposed to slip when I have breakfast, lunch and dinner and get drunk with them in the evening?

MASON: It was worth it because these guys were easy – they made the movie.

COHEN: Jim and Jerry, as they were called, were good guys, you know. You were nice to a foreigner. They were actually feminists to a certain extent. But they believed in some reprehensible conspiracy theories, and it wasn’t really their fault. They had been dieted with these lies and conspiracy theories on social media and from various news channels. We live in a dangerous age where the difference between fact and fiction is no longer obvious.

MASON: But Sacha Baron Cohen, who is married to Isla Fisher and is now the father of three, says it is time to really leave Borat behind. Was that your last undercover movie? Or would you do it again

COHEN: No. I can’t do it again. I was lucky enough to get it out of this one completely intact. So no.

MASON: I actually asked him and said, “Do you alert your wife if you get into these dangerous situations?” And he said: “No, not me, I did that once when he was doing Bruno and was followed by the police that day. He said she never left – after that he never returned to a shoot.

GAYLE KING: I’m sure she doesn’t want his wife to worry about him. The nice thing about what he does – because I think he’s brilliant at what he brings to the screen – is that on one level you are saying, “Wow, that’s amazing.” And on the other side you crawl –

MASON: Squirming –

KING: And for the next minute you will double with laughter.

MASON: Yeah. You’re on a roller coaster all the time.

KING: But he always makes a point.

MASON: Yeah.

KING: He got a lot of attention when he talked about social media in 2019 where people were like, “Let me take a look at this.” He made some really very strong points.

MASON: He followed Abbie Hoffman’s part in 2007. He called Steven Spielberg on the phone and said, “I want this part.” He said, “It has a distinct accent that you don’t have.” He said, “I’ll give you two weeks to learn.”

KING: And what happened?

MASON: It took you 13 years to make the film. He stopped filming Borat for The Chicago Seven.

TONY DOKOUPIL: His criticism of social media could be his more sustainable legacy. It doesn’t end with this speech. On election day, when Donald Trump left the oval office, he had a picture of Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg and said, “One down, one out.” He really believes that social media, as he put it, has become a “sewer of bigotry” and they need to take responsibility for what is on their platform. We’re starting to see that. That could be his legacy.