Georgia lawmaker who shouted racial slur on TV to resign

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia lawmaker will resign after exposing himself and yelling racial slurs on provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen’s cable TV show, a spokesman for House Speaker David Ralston said.

Rep. Jason Spencer had vowed to serve out his term despite the fallout. Now he’ll step down at month’s end, spokesman Kaleb McMichen told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution late Tuesday.

In Sunday night’s broadcast of Cohen’s Showtime series “Who Is America?” Cohen poses as an Israeli military expert who persuades Spencer to take part in several outlandish exercises. The lawmaker is told they’re making a counterterrorism video.

Spencer repeatedly shouts a racial slur for black people after Cohen tells him the tactic is useful for drawing bystanders’ attention to an unfolding attack.

Read more: https://apnews.com/4978858d451d47229077affdd67d1659

[CottonBear]

1. BBC: Sacha Baron Cohen ridicule prompts Georgia lawmaker to quit

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44949504

As a Georgia resident, I say good riddance, moran!

[Botany]

10. From your BBC link

He said in a statement Baron Cohen had taken "advantage of my paralysing
fear that my family would be attacked"

[CottonBear]

13. Ha! What a maroon, indeed!

That’s perfect!

One down and hundreds of GA elected officials to go...

[Scarsdale]

2. Well, THAT was easy!

Just get them to "be themselves" and we can clean out the gop sewer. It amazes me that these low-lifes all gather under the gop banner. Guess those family values really are a myth.

[lapfog_1]

6. unfortunately this is like being the #2 person in Al Qaeda.

there are many replacements.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. He thought his performance was a good idea

that says all one needs to know about him

[CurtEastPoint]

4. And he is a PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT? Ewwww....he touches people? He went to SCHOOL?

[dalton99a]

11. Yep, Georgia license #003768. Someone should file a complaint:

Georgia Composite Medical Board
Enforcement Unit
2 Peachtree Street, N.W., 36th Floor
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Phone: [phone] or [phone]
Fax: [phone]
https://medicalboard.georgia.gov/consumers

[Throck]

5. Thinning the herd.

Sacha and Michael Moore should co-host a show.

[7962]

7. He was already on the way out anyway; he had lost his primary race.

But what an idiot.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Yup but the sooner he's gone the better....

and then his "antics" can be showcased in ads about what the GOP platform is all about.

[marble falls]

9. Too bad he wasn't a Congressman. One less vote for Trump's SCOTUS.

[47of74]

12. So he exited stage reich?