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bigtree

(85,996 posts)
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 01:16 AM Feb 2021

Why Pence won't speak at CPAC this year?


Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC 5h
Disguised Borat interrupts Pence speech at CPAC a year ago this week, with “daughter” over his shoulder — scene appeared in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” (2020):




from Evansville Courier & Press:

Did Sacha Baron Cohen really offer a woman to Mike Pence?

So, was that film real, or was that just Hollywood getting creative with editing? It's true that Cohen interrupted Pence's remarks at CPAC on Feb. 27, 2020, in National Harbor, Maryland. Whether he was holding a real actress over his shoulder or a life-size doll, is not immediately clear.

Multiple cameras from media and guests in attendance captured the moment a few minutes into Pence's speech. On CSPAN, Borat's voice can be heard trying to appeal to Pence before the crowd starts to collectively chant "USA, USA, USA."

The stunt begins around the 9-minute mark, and Cohen, looking like Trump, can be seen in the crowd around the 9:43 mark.

Onlookers can be seen lifting cell phones to document Cohen being escorted out of the room in the network's footage, without the woman he appears to have carried into the hall. Here's what one look of the actor's exit looked like from someone in the room:

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JI7

(89,248 posts)
1. No, it's because Trump doesn't want him there and he really is scared he will be attacked
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 01:20 AM
Feb 2021

by Trump's supporters . And that Trump would encourage them to do it .

He would probably prefer something like in the OP over what the republicans would do .

OAITW r.2.0

(24,467 posts)
2. How weird is that? I loyal goddam servant of Donald Trump for 4 years....
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 01:27 AM
Feb 2021

and he's afraid to show his face at CPAC? How fucked up is this "party"?

JI7

(89,248 posts)
4. He has always been a coward the entire time he was VP . It was never about loyalty out of personal
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 01:30 AM
Feb 2021

affection. But loyalty out of cowardice .

JI7

(89,248 posts)
5. Check out the comments on his social media accounts
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 01:31 AM
Feb 2021

They STILL do .

The attacks and negative comments are almost all from the right wing.

Initech

(100,068 posts)
7. Wait, he still has social media accounts?
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 01:51 AM
Feb 2021

I had no idea. And these people are complete psychopaths. Who do not deserve to be anywhere near any position of power.

bigtree

(85,996 posts)
8. you think you know somebody
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 01:59 AM
Feb 2021

...then one day, poof, someone sordid summons them and they're coming for you like NLD zombies.

TlalocW

(15,381 posts)
9. It's amazing
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 02:39 AM
Feb 2021

That Pence went from being considered a Godly man - one that evangelists even said they would prefer over Trump and who they hoped would be a good influence on him to being considered a traitor with death threats against him. Once Trump looked like he was "pwning the libs," the phony concerns and pretense were dropped, and they became his fans... becoming a cult.

TlalocW

JI7

(89,248 posts)
10. Trump is and was always what White Evangelicals are. They hid behind religion but they were always
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 02:44 AM
Feb 2021

about white supremacy .

Mike Pence is just a phony coward.

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