As long as I'm mentioning Ali G

A few weeks back, one of Ali G's partners made the front page of the International Herald Tribune. It seems that Borat Sagdiyev, the sixth most famous person in Kazakhstan, has fallen out of favor with his government. His problems with Kazakh authorities began in November when he hosted the MTV Europe Awards. After accusing Madonna of being a drag queen, insulting Uzbekistan, and bringing a drunken Kazakh Airlines pilot onto the stage, Borat angered his nation's president by touting his country's recent civil rights progress:

Women can now travel on inside of bus, homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hat and age of consent has been raised to 8 years old.

President Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, demonstrating the same respect for democratic values that prompted him to sign Kazakhstan on as a member of the Coalition of the Willing, responded by ordering the Association of IT Companies of Kazakhstan to revoke Borat's website license.

The Kazakh government is also threatening to sue Sasha Baron Cohen, an actor who they claim plays the part of Borat. Borat disputes the charge saying, "In response to Mr. Ashikbayev's comments, I like to state I have no connection with Mr. Cohen. I support my government's decision to sue this Jew."

Borat is perhaps best know in the US for his reports on American culture in which he shares photos with couple of Mississippi gentlemen showing him having sex with his sister, leads a group of enthusiastic Nashville patriots in a rousing chorus of an old Kazakh classic, "Throw the Jew Down the Well*," and campaigns with Republican congressional candidate James Broadwater, sparking exchanges like this:

Broadwater: I'm running for United States Congress in District 2.

Borat: He is a strong man. He will crush his opponents and he will be powerful like Stalin and not tolerate people who are bad.

Broadwater: Well, actually, I wouldn't compare myself to Stalin ...

Borat: Will you vote for my friend?

Woman: Well, I probably will, but I don't ever tell people who I vote for before I vote.

Borat: If you do not vote for him, he will take power!

Woman: Well, it depends on whether he gets enough votes or not.

Borat: I will not leave until you swear on the eyes of your child that you will vote for him

See the complete video at One Good Move.

A recent rodeo appearance may have changed the way patriots think about Borat. The crowd was with him when he praised the Iraq Phase of the Eternal War to Resubjugate Brown People saying:

I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards. And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq.

But he lost them when he sang the national anthem, changing the final words to "home of the grave." Witnesses report that mobs of cowboys nearly killed him.

*I couldn't get the video to work in my Firefox client, but it works in IE. I encourage you to load up IE so you can see it. It's unbelievable. The patriotic bar patrons really get into singing the chorus.