Sacha Baron Cohen Not Likely To Fall Into Kazakh Minister's Clever Trap
Between Kazakhstan's president's White House summit to discuss the culture-tarnishing scourge represented by Borat, yesterday's currency snafu, and today's comically conciliatory attempt to invitate Sacha Baron Cohen to their modern, non-women-enslaving country, it now seems clear that 20th Century Fox has purchased (or, at the very least, rented out) the entire Central Asian nation for the purpose of publicizing their upcoming movie. Reports the AP:
Deputy Foreign Minister Rakhat Aliyev said in an interview that he understands why Kazakhs are unhappy about Sacha Baron Cohen's character, Borat.
"But we must have a sense of humor and respect other people's freedom of creativity," Aliyev was quoted as saying by Kazakhstan Today.
"I'd like to invite Cohen here," he said. "He can discover a lot of things. Women drive cars, wine is made of grapes, and Jews are free to go to synagogues."
Of course, we could be misreading the invitation as a Fox-funded publicity stunt; the nation's wily foreign minister could just as easily be attempting to lure Cohen to Kazakhstan under the false pretense of a summit of cultural discovery, where the troublemaking comedian would be immediately slaughtered and his remains fed to the peasants who pull their president's wench-drawn limousine.
