Sara, do you have down syndrome? What in the world does killing babies have to do with liberty?

The right to keep and kill babies shall not be infringed?

It seems that like Dr. Paul’s insight into how politics and economics can be approached with more humanity and less bias, you’ll either get Baron Cohen’s insightful approach to humanity’s social politics via his staged biases or not.

If you see it, you’ll likely get laugh(s) at some point(s) in the flick as we see both himself, ourselves and others in his characters in an even more exaggerated light than most of those we meet in our own day-to-day lives.

You’ll also likely be turned off and revolted by some of the rest which you don’t get or do but don’t want to. I’m also unsure as to why Ron Paul was chosen as a target, but maybe it’s just a matter of hit and miss with this kind of project of “planned spontaneity”. I’d say it’s a comedic miss, but yes, Dr. Paul is a good sport about it, considering, even though he does call him “queer”. (I hope he both laughed about it after and gets good press from it).

Beyond the shock comedy, this phrase is indicative of the underlying message, approach and result I see film critics debating – it sums up Paul’s truthful, reserved but firm rejection of the situation. The word seems appropriate considering its multiple interpretations (for further info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer).

Both of these men are (simply) indicative of the changes that are happening around us in our world (or at least in the West) – there’s no way a film like this would be made or topping the box office even a decade ago, there’s no way so many people would know about Dr. Paul and some of his ideas and accomplishments, there’s no way we would have had a Black President (love him or hate him), there’s no way they would have replaced a near identical scene of a LaToya Jackson interview with Paula Abdul (RIP Michael), there’s no way we’d debating reinstating an expanded definition of gender and marriage in California etc. etc.

Austrian economics, eh? lol

Ron Paul wasn’t a smart choice for Cohen to pick on. Most of his supporters are the crowd he’s trying to appeal to. Because while Paul is older, his views are young and liberty appeals to all. I hope for his sake the rest of Dr. Paul’s supporters have a good sense of humor. But taking a shot like this at Ron Paul shows his lack of respect for libertarianism. Therefore, no more Cohen for me.

But maybe some good press will come to Dr. Paul from this, who knows.

Go Ron Paul!