Is Borat the New Archie Bunker?

Oy vey, yes, of course Tony that's exactly it. (make sure you don't miss the sarcasm in that statement.) And just FYI the religious breakdown of Kazakhstan is 47% Musliim, 44% Russian Orthodox, 2% Protestant, and the rest are Catholic, Jewish, etc. So based on that you cannot claim to know that Borat is making fun of any specific religious group. Your comments here and elsewhere, merely betray your own religious bigotry.

Some people don't like Borat because he gets people to let their guard down and show themselves as racists and anti-Semites. And that exposes them to the light. Very bad thing. Very bad. And some people are just a few inches too short and have to take it out on everyone else.

Thank you, kauko15. I had been under the same impression as Tony had. Indeed the CIA Factbook reported the same percentages. And thus Borat is mocking Christians too. Which puts a slightly different face on the Borat conspiracy (speaking of cynicism). We can now see that Borat is actually half Muslim, half Christian. Which supports a working hypothesis that the ADL has chosen to ignore its mission statement at least in part because Borat has exposed a Cheney look-a-like, deep in the heart of Texas, as at best being an anti-Semitic sympathizer. Which thanks to Borat appears to characterize red state residents in general. The inference here would be that Abe Foxman has made a calculated gamble with an expected payoff of wayward Jews returning in droves to Team Blue in time to support Hillary's return to the White House. Granted this time around she wouldn't need to wear the irritating beard if you like, which could be good or bad. On a more serious note if the preceding scenario in any way mirrors reality I'd respectfully suggest it's potentially the sort of forgive me "cow in Palestine" apologetics cited by Holocaust deniers. Plus it seems a little like yoking an international association of Evangelical Christians to a political organization, which by its very nature has an agenda determined by political comprise, that's quite naturally committed to undermining its political rivals (regardless of their deeds and intentions).