Georgia state lawmaker Jason Spencer resigned Tuesday night after he was duped into an appearance on comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime series, “Who Is America.”
Spencer, a Republican, initially refused to resign after the segment aired, which features him baring his buttocks, shouting the n-word, and doing a terrible impression of a Chinese tourist. He changed his tune on Tuesday after harsh rebuke, with a terse resignation letter which reads: “This email/letter is to serve as an official resignation notice to your office that I will be resigning my post effective July 31, 2018.”
Spencer appeared in a segment in which Cohen portrays an Israeli military expert who is making a video about how to mount a personal defense against potential terrorists. In one scene Cohen’s character urges Spencer to draw attention to an unfolding attack.
The lawmaker responds by shouting the n-word.
In another, Cohen says that Muslim extremists are religiously repulsed by human buttocks. He persuades Spencer to fend off an attacker by charging at him backwards ― he shouts “USA!” and “America!” ― with his bare bottom exposed. –NBC News
Cohen is known for pranking various public figures with his “Ali G” character, including Donald Trump. After about a minute, Trump realized something was wrong and walked off.
Of course, that wasn’t the first time Trump walked out of an interview…
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