December 12, 2006

"Judge makes benefit for Borat."

High five!
Posted by Ann Althouse at 4:50 PM
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1 comment:

Al Maviva said...

I like "Borat" stuff okay, but if he's such a brave, brilliant, transgressive genius, why doesn't he take on radical Islam? Seems to me, risking getting your throat slit by a bunch of masked dudes in the throes of violent ecstasy, who are set off by any real or imagined slight such as the mere existence of Jewish comedians, is more transgressive than pissing off some Southern Baptists at dinner who are too polite to tell you that you're acting like a complete turd...

Of course you could ask the same question of Madonna. Trampling a crucifix for pseudo-sexual thrills was transgressive when de Sade did it and got imprisoned for his troubles. Doing it 210 years later, for commercial purposes, is pretty lame. If Madonna wanted to be really transgressive, she could ditch her latest religion of the week, return to the Catholic church, and renounce her earlier material(girl)ism. I'm not saying that would be a good career move, but it would be transgressive as all hell against the existing social order.

12/13/06, 6:36 AM

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