Dear Kazakhstan.....

Dear Kazakhstan,

Let me start by saying who are you?  I mean I've seen the fake tv reporter that Ali G protrays as being from your country, but until I saw this CNN article, I didn't know you really existed.   I thought Ali G was just making you up.  I'm astonished to learn that you're "the world's ninth largest country".  Really?  A country your size has surely contributed to the world's culture with......with.....c'mon, what have you given the world, other than a phony TV reporter?

Using your logic, the United States should sue Jerry Lewis for protaying Americans as morons.  Why do you think the French love him so much?   By the way, go ahead and sue Ali G.  I'm curious to see what happens.

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Kazakhstan threatens to sue comedian

Sacha Baron Cohen portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter named Borat

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -- Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action Monday against a British comedian who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.

Sacha Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his "Da Ali G Show," has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West, on British and U.S. channels.

Cohen appears to have drawn official Kazakh ire after he hosted the annual MTV Europe Music Awards show in Lisbon earlier this month as Borat, who arrived in an Air Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle.

"We do not rule out that Mr. Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its people in a derogatory way," Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news briefing.

"We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind." He declined to elaborate.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/15/kazakhstan.comedian.reut/index.html