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Who Is America? You might not want to know

Baron Cohen took in Virginia Citizens Defense League president Philip Van Cleave

THE MOST SURREAL MOMENT IN THE FIRST episode of Showtime’s Who Is America? comes deep into Sacha Baron Cohen’s interview with Larry Pratt, an executive director emeritus of Gun Owners of America. Disguised as a hulking Israeli colonel named Erran Morad, the British comedian has already gotten Pratt to crack up at a rape joke and agree that toddlers should be armed. Now, Baron Cohen nods along as the gun-lobby figurehead reads a statement that includes the nonsensical claim that “children under 5 also have elevated levels of the pheromone Blink-182, produced by the part of the liver known as the Rita

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