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TexasTowelie

(116,758 posts)
Tue Jul 31, 2018, 11:59 PM Jul 2018

Georgia Lawmaker Makes an Ass Out of Himself--Literally (With Video)

In the middle of a summer chock-full of political hilarity, with Georgia taking center stage nationally with its candidates and their guns and pickup trucks, another Georgian has set a new low for the state.

On Sunday’s episode of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new project “Who Is America?” the intrepid host—who says he is “in Mossad… I mean, not in Mossad”—persuades naïve Georgia Rep. Jason Spencer (R-Woodbine) to appear on the show ostensibly to learn how to identify and intimidate terrorists. Spencer fails to catch Cohen’s clues that he is not what he says and proceeds to follow the most ridiculous instructions.

Cohen probably zeroed in on the controversial Spencer thanks to his public threat against a black former state representative who was calling for the removal of Confederate statues and his proposed 2016 bill banning burkas.

The highlight of the show comes when Cohen—posing as an Israeli military expert—tells him in an exaggerated accent that the best way to intimidate a terrorist is to threaten to make him “be seen as homo,” and that “if your buttock touch them, it will mean they have become…”

Read more: https://flagpole.com/news/in-the-loop/georgia-lawmaker-makes-an-ass-out-of-himself-literally

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Georgia Lawmaker Makes an Ass Out of Himself--Literally (With Video) (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2018 OP
I've seen this many times. Spencer is the biggest ass in America. rusty quoin Aug 2018 #1
 

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
1. I've seen this many times. Spencer is the biggest ass in America.
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 01:29 AM
Aug 2018

I feel bad for his kids if he has them. I don’t feel bad for his wife if he has one...then she married the ass.

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