Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix: "Dec. 15, 2005 | Morning Briefing:
Borat fights his maker: In Kazakhstan's latest attempt to distance itself from Sacha Baron Cohen's spoofy Kazakh character, Borat, the country has shut down Cohen's official Borat Web site, borat.kz. Though the company that oversees registration of the country's domain names claims not to know where the decision to pull the site came from, a document obtained by the International Herald Tribune shows complaints lodged against the site from government and presidential security sources. The site carried Borat-ian pronouncements such as this one praising Kazakhstan's progressive policies: 'Women can now travel on inside of bus, homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hat and age of consent has been raised to 8 years old.' But Cohen, who is Jewish, isn't taking Kazakhstan's seriousness too seriously. Before the site was shut down, Borat appeared in a video clip online to claim that 'I have no connection with Mr. Cohen. I support my government's decision to sue this Jew.' The site has resurfaced under the non-Kazakh domain borat.tv. (International Herald Tribune) "

It's fascinating to me when reality and fiction get so blended that they become inseparable.

By the way, Borat is hilarious...