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hoaxes

Sacha Baron Cohen's Gay Fight Night Hoax

Prankster, actor, and all-around brave guy Sacha Baron Cohen has once again angered gullible Southerners. This time it was while filming his new movie Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt (title is tentative) which features Cohen's gay fashionista character prancing about the United States. The Borat star held several evenings of "Blue Collar Brawlin'" in two "cities" in Arkansas, advertising with posters like the one above. There was cage wrasslin' and $1 beer, yes, but the night ended with two male combatants kissing each other for all to see. Audience members became furious when confronted with this hideous sight, throwing beer and chairs onto the stage. Click after the jump to see the Craigslist ad that Cohen and his cohorts posted for the events. More »

12:31 PM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Richard
9,818 views, 56 comments

Latest by n/a: I think he's doing damage control. He was rightly criticized for really stretching to try to portray southernors as racist in Borat, which they generally aren't. White trash and black trash get along really well these days. But southernors are generally more »

bruno

Sacha Baron Cohen Plays First Gay Man To Visit Kansas

Sacha "Borat" Baron "Ali G" Cohen is working on his upcoming flick about his character "Bruno," the supergay Austrian fashion reporter. Since everyone on both coasts (except for Ben Affleck) is obviously too familiar with his work to be punked, Bruno has traveled to the heart of flyover land, Wichita, Kansas. Where he was captured on film doing supergay stuff! His act reportedly "almost looked like pornography," at least to Kansas sensibilities. After the jump, video [via Towleroad] of Bruno and his funky pants dance, which brings joy to the dreary confines of the Wichita terminal. More »

11:16 AM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
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Latest by n/a: Personally, I am not offended by Gay stereotypes when they are not presented as a purely negative plot device. I see nothing here to offend my gay eyes. I look forward to laughing my panties off when I see the movie. Go Sasha, go. Demo -- more »

media

Eliot Spitzer: Media Critic

Before The New York Times utterly destroyed former Governor Eliot Spitzer by breaking the news of his whoring ways, Spitzer didn't have much respect for the paper. New York State District Attorney David Soares' report on Troopergate includes an email exchange between Spitzer and aid Rich Baum in which they discuss Times reporter Nick Confessore. "In a separate set of e-mails early in the morning on that date, Spitzer asked Rich Baum: 'So how do u think confessore came out?'"

"To this, Baum replied: 'Thought confe[ssore] story was what you said—fine but not how should have been written. Amazing what they pass off as analysis."

"Spitzer responded: 'Agreed. Confessor[e] was just so superficial, but our side is there, and headline and lead are okay."

Nice of Spitzer to give Confessore and his Times colleagues some stronger meat to cover.

10:55 AM on Sat Mar 29 2008
By ian spiegelman
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Latest by MoeGolden: this has led me to a confessore kick, in which I found myself looking at pictures of him wearing sneakers at a friend's wedding across the country. more »

Big swinging Republican political consultant Roger Stone has "resigned" in the wake of accusations that he left an obscene phone message on Governor Spitzer's father's answering machine. Stone still proclaims his innocence, but it's pretty clear that the state Republican party realizes the last thing they want to do is make the governor look like a victim, which is a role Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno would like to preserve for himself. [NYP]

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our dysfunctional government

Who Made Mean Calls To Governor Spitzer's Dad?

Things just keep getting weirder for Eliot Spitzer. The papers are awash this morning with the news that Bernard Spitzer, father of the beleaguered governor, received an abusive phone call from Republican political consultant (and, as the Post notes, known swinger) Roger Stone. The governor is, of course, currently embroiled in the controversy over whether or not he directed the state police to issue damaging information about Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's use of state aircraft for political purposes, but the current fuss concerns an earlier scandal—taking money from his dad. More »

11:50 AM on Wed Aug 22 2007
By abalk
3,037 views, 13 comments

Latest by Beanieboo: If it's a pieced-together tape, shouldn't it sound more like Moviefone? more »

our dysfunctional government

Joe Bruno Takes A Punch

Does Joe Bruno feel the noose tightening around his neck?As Governor Eliot Spitzer continues to die the death of a thousand cuts in the ongoing investigation of Statetroopergate or whatever the hell we're calling it, an interesting facet to the examination of the use of state planes for political purposes by the Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno (R-Graftsville) - the thing that got the governor into trouble in the first place - emerged yesterday. More »

3:00 PM on Wed Aug 15 2007
By abalk
2,432 views, 11 comments

all that's left is our friendship

Shelly Silver Lends Eliot Spitzer A Hand

You remember that scene in The Godfather, Part II where the Nevada senator wakes up in the whorehouse next to a dead prostitute and Corleone family consigliere Tom Hagen shows up and tells him, don't worry, we control this place, no one will ever know, we'll help you out? And then, for the rest of the movie, the Corleones own the Senator? For whatever reason, we were reminded of it when we saw the news yesterday that Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver was stepping up to defend Governor Spitzer in the recent Bruno brouhaha. It's almost like Silver and Bruno concocted some devious, complicated plan to roll the governor, making him wounded and dependent. Or, you know, maybe they just knew he'd fuck up on his own and decided to sit and wait for it. That's what they're good at, those guys. More »

12:00 PM on Fri Jul 27 2007
By abalk
895 views, 7 comments

Latest by Debussy Fields: Don't Silver and Spitzer powwow in the same tribe? Bruno, eh not so much. more »

explications

Joe Bruno Victimhood Campaign Rolls On

New York Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno continues to pound away at Eliot Spitzer, raising the possibility that the Senate may compel the governor to testify in one of the multiple investigations called for by Bruno over whether or not the governor's office improperly used the state police to track Bruno's questionable air travel. Good luck, says a spokesman for the governor, casting doubt on the Senate's constitutional authority to investigate internal executive affairs. More »

10:20 AM on Thu Jul 26 2007
By abalk
764 views, 12 comments

explications

Embattled Spitzer, Emboldened Cuomo

On the second day after the release of a report from Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office revealing that staffers working for Governor Eliot Spitzer aggressively attempted to discredit Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, the stories keep coming. The governor was in Buffalo yesterday, where he couldn't avoid questions about the report. "All I can do is get back to business and that's what I am doing," he said. Meanwhile! More »

1:25 PM on Wed Jul 25 2007
By abalk
1,521 views, 15 comments

Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf: "All kinds of forces that have an interest in weakening the governor are joining together, either directly or indirectly, to do so. So, it tells you about the lack of partisanship. The partisanship no longer matters. It's about ambition. Right? Protecting turf. The Republicans in the state Senate and the attorney general essentially have the same agenda right now. Think about it." [NYO]

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explications

Is Eliot Spitzer Finished?

How screwed is Eliot Spitzer? That's probably the most important question after yesterday's release of a report by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that accuses "Mr. Spitzer's communications director, Darren Dopp, and a top state homeland security official of ordering state police to take extraordinary measures to track the use of air and ground police escorts by the Republican Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, in an effort to catch him abusing state resources." More »

9:23 AM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By abalk
3,531 views, 24 comments

New York State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno cancels his subscription to the Albany Times-Union because it published stories about his taking trips in a state helicopter. [City Room/NYT]

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getting the shaft

No Weddings For New York Homos This Year

While the state assembly may be prepared to vote in gay marriage for New York, the measure has no chance of passing—or even reaching—the state Senate. Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno (R-Shadydealsburg) announced at a news conference today that "We're not doing gay marriage by Thursday; that's for sure, or this year. We're not going to take a vote; we have too many other issues. We're not going to spend hours debating an issue that, you know, is not going to be of consequence." What could possibly account for such antipathy to what, by now, must be seen as a basic human right? The Times' Danny Hakim may have put his finger on it. More »

6:21 PM on Tue Jun 19 2007
By abalk
4,426 views, 20 comments

Latest by fortqueenmean: @nigerienne: Hello, Sistah: it's called a WEDDING REGISTRY. more »

bruno jamais

The $7,000 dinner

Ex-Daniel maitre d', Bruno Jamais, recently opened an exclusive supper club on the Upper East Side. Membership is $7,000 and the guests are handpicked by Jamais. The advantages: a $6 million wine collection, Pratesi table linens, reservation-only policies, an unlisted phone number, and best of all, no mixing with the vile hoi polloi. "I resent it on a Friday or Saturday night when restaurants have a crowd that isn't particularly 'preferred,'" sniffs Wall Street CEO, Robert Kanter. ("Well, I resent it when Wall Street CEOs have egos larger than their offshore bank accounts," sniffs Gawker Editor, Elizabeth Spiers.) The Post says "ascots are de rigueur," which is a bit confusing. The only ascot-ed man I've ever seen people take seriously is Hugh Hefner, and surely that speaks for itself.
The $7,000-a-plate club [Post]

11:57 AM on Thu Dec 19 2002
By Gawker
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