A California gun store owner excoriated Sacha Baron Cohen after he caught the liberal actor and crew trying to mock him in disguise and under false pretenses, claiming they were filming a documentary about a Hungarian immigrant wanting to buy a gun.
The entire interaction was caught on video.
The incident happened in February 2017 as Cohen and his crew traveled across the country filming segments for “Who is America?” Despite debuting to poor ratings, clips of the first episode have gone viral online, where Cohen – using his famous form of gonzo comedy – somehow fools ill-advised gun rights advocates and Members of Congress into arming toddlers with military-grade weapons.
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However, Norris Sweidan, the owner of One Guns & Ammo in Riverside wasn’t so easily fooled. (FOX 11)
“He comes in, off the bat you can see in the video I’m looking like, this guy does not look like a Hungarian immigrant, tight ass leather pants, a beard, it just didn’t fit,” Sweidan said. “The moment his words came out of his mouth I was like this guy is full of s***.”
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“I’m looking at the producer and I’m just like am I being fooled right here?” Sweidan said. “And I just kept looking at the guy and I was like you’re Borat, as soon as I said that his eyes just looked at me like, and he did a turn right out the door.”
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“Once I knew it was Borat, we already know his game and his bull*****, so we knew he’s here to make a mockery, and of what? Gun owners? The gun business, gun shops,” Sweidan said.
He believes Cohen meant to use it as a segment in his new program on Showtime called “Who is America?” which recently aired its first episode, and showed some gun rights advocates promoting arming children while filming segments with Cohen, who was in an Israeli disguise.
Clearly, Cohen and Showtime picked the wrong guy to mess with.
AAN Staff
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