Sarah Palin has a big bone to pick with Sacha Baron Cohen.The former Alaskan governor recently alleged she was “duped” into sitting for an interview with the comedian, who she said was heavily disguised as a disabled military veteran using a “fake wheelchair.” It is suspected that the interview was for Showtime’s upcoming comedy series, Who Is America?, starring the actor and set for debut on Sunday.In a Facebook statement posted last week, the politician publicly called out Cohen, Showtime and CBS after she said she was led to believe the sit-down was for a “legit Showtime historical documentary.”
Instead, as she alleged in her post and elaborated in an interview on Good Morning America Friday, Palin said she sat for an “embarrassing, “humiliating” and “bizarre” interview in which middle class Americans, veterans and people with disabilities were allegedly mocked.
She told ABC’s Robin Roberts that the interview was proposed to her as a legitimate sit-down to speak about veterans issues, the military and current events passed on to her by a speakers bureau, “which I would assume had done some vetting”At one point in the interview, Palin said “enough was enough,” took off her microphone and walked out. As she recalled, the interviewer she believed to be Cohen started showing her graphs with typos and statistics involving transgender propaganda that didn’t look right to her. She also said that he falsely told her Chelsea Clinton had been the recipient of a government-funded sex change.Since leaving, she said nobody involved with the interview has returned her calls and she believes she was given fake names. After she came forward publicly, Roy Moore has also said he was tricked by Cohen among reportedly several other politicians. Dick Cheney was featured in a teaser for the show, in which he is shown asking people to tune into his interview.
Cohen “is obviously very good at lying, at duping people because look at the long list now since I’ve come out and described my experience; all these other guys, all these men coming out now saying, ‘Oh, yeah—me too.”
