In a development that I’m sure had nothing at all to do with the fact that Rudy Guiliani has been releasing alleged evidence of deep corruption in the Biden family, the media yesterday went wild with claims that the former New York mayor was caught on camera in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new “Borat” film “touching his genitals” while in a hotel room with a “15-year-old” girl. As it turns out, according to Mother Jones editor Ben Dreyfuss (far from a right wing publication), this version of events is simply untrue.
The sequel to the first “Borat,” originally released in 2006, shows Guiliani being interviewed by a 24-year-old woman posing as a journalist. She apparently flirts with Guiliani and invites him to her hidden-camera-rigged bedroom for a drink,. He says he did not “touch his genitals” but rather tucked his shirt in after the woman had untucked it while taking his microphone off. Dreyfuss confirms that characterization. Of course, even if Guiliani had been responding in kind to her flirtations, it’s hard to see how that would be any sort of scandal. They’re both adults. Guiliani isn’t currently married. He didn’t know he was being filmed. What exactly is being alleged here? A crime against Christian chastity?
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