{"id":13059,"date":"2005-11-17T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/kazakhstan-threatens-borat-with-legal-action\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T22:24:00","slug":"kazakhstan-threatens-borat-with-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/kazakhstan-threatens-borat-with-legal-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan Threatens &#8220;Borat&#8221; With Legal Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20051114\/od_uk_nm\/oukoe_uk_kazakhstan_borat\" target=\"_blank\">Kazakhstan&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen,<\/a> who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.&rdquo;  Baron Cohen&rsquo;s character &ldquo;Borat&rdquo; is one of the many hilarious personages in <i>Da Ali G Show<\/i>, and frankly I&rsquo;m surprised that he&rsquo;s gotten away with as much as he has.  Still, if you ever have the opportunity to catch the show on HBO, you should definitely take it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/tv\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">tv<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-113207164071725556?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Kazakhstan&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.&rdquo; Baron Cohen&rsquo;s character &ldquo;Borat&rdquo; is one of the many hilarious personages in Da Ali G Show, and frankly I&rsquo;m surprised that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/kazakhstan-threatens-borat-with-legal-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kazakhstan Threatens &#8220;Borat&#8221; With Legal Action&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}