Ga. Lawmaker resigns after dropping pants, shouting insults at Sacha Baron Cohen Show: NPR

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This image published by Showtime shows Jason Spencer in a scene from the series Who is America? with Sacha Baron Cohen.

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Jason Spencer, who stripped his bad and shouted racial insults at the camera in an episode of satirical series Showtime by Sacha Baron Cohen Who's America? will resign from the legislature after initially insisting that he

A spokesman for Georgia House President David Ralston said Tuesday at the "House of Commons". Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Spencer would step down

In the episode of 19459010 Who Is America aired on Sunday, Spencer appears with Cohen, who poses as a fictional character, the former Israeli intelligence Capt . Erran Morad, who claims to make a video anti-terrorism. Spencer is persuaded to use the word N and drop his pants into what Cohen's character describes as a counterterrorism deterrent tactic

Spencer, who sponsored Georgia's anti-masking law, was described as "anti-burka law". "- lost his primary in May He apologized for his behavior on Cohen's show, recognizing that it was a" ridiculously ugly episode. "Initially, however, he refused to resign before the

"Sacha Baron Cohen and his badociates took advantage of my paralyzing fear that my family would be attacked," said Spencer, adding that the techniques he was demonstrating were meant to dissect "what that I believed was an inevitable attack. "

He told the Journal-Constitution that he was denied final approval before the episode was aired "The deceptive and fraudulent behavior of this media company is exactly why President Donald Trump was elected," he told the newspaper.

Spencer is the latest in a long line of personalities to be made fooled by Cohen's films, such as television shows e Borat and Da Ali G Show .

In the premiere of Who is America? Cohen's character "Morad" interviews … rights advocates who seem to endorse a fictitious Israeli program called "guardians of childhood" in which "talented" young children are trained to carry weapons fire at school.

Former Majority Leader Trent Lott, Former Republican of Illinois Joe Walsh, Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and Rep. Joe Wilson, RS.C., all appear in a fake video recording for the program.

In this, Lott says "something we should think about in America" ​​puts arms in the hands of "law-abiding citizens, good guys, let them be you"

Wilson advises that " our founding fathers did not put an age limit to the second amendment. "

In the Sunday episode, former vice president Dick Cheney agrees to sign a "waterboard kit", consisting of a plastic water jug ​​Cohen put the item on eBay to bid, promising to donate the product to Amnesty International in the United States