Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who Is America?' shows GOP lawmaker making racist slurs, prompts resignation

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Update: Jason Spencer has resigned from the Georgia legislature following backlash from the "Who Is America?" episode. Atlanta's 11Alive reports that Spencer submitted his resignation to Georgia House Speaker David Ralston and will leave office by the end of the month, Ralston's office confirmed Wednesday.

Sacha Baron Cohen's "Who is America?" returned Sunday for its second episode, featuring a sketch with Jason Spencer, a Republican state lawmaker from Georgia, that rivals the debut episode's guns-for-toddlers segment in shock value.

The new episode of Cohen's Showtime series, which also features the comedian duping Dick Cheney and Corinne Olympios from "The Bachelor," revives his Israeli anti-terrorism expert character Col. Erran Morad. As Morad, Cohen convinces Spencer that he's acting in a training video, similar to how he persuaded former and current congressmen to record public-service announcements for the fake "Kinderguardians" program in the "Who is America" debut episode.

This week's segment opens with Cohen as Morad telling Spencer to act like a Chinese tourist, complete with a fake accent, in order to take upskirt photos with a selfie stick under an unsuspecting terrorist's burka.

Cohen then tells Spencer to "yell the n-word," watching the lawmaker scream the expletive over a dozen times before admonishing him.

"Are you crazy?" Cohen says. "The 'n-word' is 'noony,' not this word. This word is disgusting."

The segment escalates further when Cohen claims that acting "homo" will ward off terrorists, inspiring Spencer to pull down his pants and run backward towards Cohen, screaming, "America!"

The episode concludes with a post-credits sequence showing Spencer's shocking "Message to Terrorists," in which he addresses "all you (expletive) sand (expletive) over in the Middle East," before pretending to dismember a hooded figure and eating a sausage that resembles the body part.

"We will cut off your (expletive), you understand?" Spencer tells the camera. "We will take your (expletive) and we will shove it in your mouth."

Spencer, who is closing out his fourth term in the Georgia state legislature after losing his primary in May, issued a preemptive statement about the episode last week. The 43-year-old physician assistant told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the show “took advantage of my fears that I would be attacked by someone” and “exploited my state of mind for profit and notoriety,” and that "this media company’s deceptive and fraudulent behavior is exactly why President Donald Trump was elected.”

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