{"id":2250,"date":"2008-07-10T21:42:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T04:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2008-07-10T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T04:46:17","slug":"bruno-is-the-new-borat-iranian-missile-enhancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/bruno-is-the-new-borat-iranian-missile-enhancement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno is the new Borat! With Iranian missile &#8220;enhancement&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re filming Sacha Baron Cohen&#8217;s next movie, it seems, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/07\/08\/arkansas-cage-fight-turns_n_111425.html\">things like this appear in the news<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others&#8217; clothes off and kissing _ a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of &#8220;Borat&#8221; fame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and share a brief kiss reminiscent of one between Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell in the film &#8220;Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2251 aligncenter\" title=\"bruno\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bruno.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600&#8217;s reaction as the two men &#8220;went right up to the line&#8221; of the city&#8217;s morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.<\/p>\n<p>The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. &#8220;It set the crowd off lobbing beers,&#8221; Holland said. &#8220;They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article finishes with a bit of Mike Huckabee trivia!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the cage match visits came from Baron Cohen, it wouldn&#8217;t be the first time Arkansas fell for a practical joke. In 2000, then-Gov. Mike Huckabee fell for a prank and congratulated Canada for preserving its icebound Parliament, calling it a &#8220;national igloo.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>National igloo! He ran for President! <strong>National IGLOO!!!<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0889583\/\">Br\u00fcno releases May 15, 2009 in theaters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is having Photoshop overseas a recipe to enhance your missile testing? <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/10\/in-an-iranian-image-a-missile-too-many\/index.html?hp\">Iran thinks so, and got most major US dailies to run the photo untouched!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/bruno-is-the-new-borat-iranian-missile-enhancement\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re filming Sacha Baron Cohen&#8217;s next movie, it seems, when things like this appear in the news: Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others&#8217; clothes off and kissing _ a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/bruno-is-the-new-borat-iranian-missile-enhancement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bruno is the new Borat! With Iranian missile &#8220;enhancement&#8221;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/bruno-is-the-new-borat-iranian-missile-enhancement\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}