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''Who Is America?'' is a 30-minute mockumentary series airing on {{Creator/Showtime}}. The series centers around Creator/SachaBaronCohen playing a wide variety of characters to prank various people, mostly political figures.


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''Who Is America?'' is a 30-minute mockumentary series airing on {{Creator/Showtime}}.Creator/{{Showtime}}. The series centers around Creator/SachaBaronCohen playing a wide variety of characters to prank various people, mostly political figures.




* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Quoth Jason Spencer when asked to portray a Chinese tourist:
-->'''Jason Spencer:''' ''([[AsianSpeekeeEngrish faux-Chinese accent]])'' Oh, ''(unintelligible)'' [[invoked]] [[CriticalResearchFailure Konichiwa]], Red Dragon Bejing, ''(unintelligible)'', [[CriticalResearchFailure sushi]], ''(unintelligible)'', Red Dragon, [[CriticalResearchFailure Ho Chi Minh City]]...

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* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Quoth Jason Spencer when asked to portray a Chinese tourist:
tourist. Remember that Sushi and "konnichiwa" are Japanese and Ho Chi Minh City is Vietnamese:
-->'''Jason Spencer:''' ''([[AsianSpeekeeEngrish faux-Chinese accent]])'' Oh, ''(unintelligible)'' [[invoked]] [[CriticalResearchFailure Konichiwa]], Konichiwa, Red Dragon Bejing, ''(unintelligible)'', [[CriticalResearchFailure sushi]], sushi, ''(unintelligible)'', Red Dragon, [[CriticalResearchFailure Ho Chi Minh City]]...City...



* RealityShowGenreBlindness: Whatever possessed Jason Spencer [[note]]Who was at the time of filming ''a serving member of the Georgia House of Representatives''[[/note]] to agree to [[invoked]] [[WhatAnIdiot drop his pants and scream the N-word]] ''on camera'' has to qualify.

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* RealityShowGenreBlindness: Whatever possessed Jason Spencer [[note]]Who was at the time of filming ''a serving member of the Georgia House of Representatives''[[/note]] to agree to [[invoked]] [[WhatAnIdiot drop his pants and scream the N-word]] N-word ''on camera'' has to qualify.
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''Who Is America?'' is a 30-minute mockumentary series currently airing on {{Creator/Showtime}}. The series centers around Creator/SachaBaronCohen playing a wide variety of characters to prank various people, mostly political figures.


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''Who Is America?'' is a 30-minute mockumentary series currently airing on {{Creator/Showtime}}. The series centers around Creator/SachaBaronCohen playing a wide variety of characters to prank various people, mostly political figures.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Par for the course with Cohen's prank shows, most (if not all) of his marks end up going along with outlandish situations with only a bit of hesitation. This is especially the case for Rick Sherman, where a woman provided him with her own pubic hair for one of his art pieces without blinking an eye.
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* AsideGlance: Morad gives a split-second but ''priceless'' one to the camera after successfully tricking Jason Spencer into screaming the word "nigger" at the top of his lungs, on camera.

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* AsideGlance: Morad gives a split-second but ''priceless'' one to the camera after successfully tricking Jason Spencer into screaming the word "nigger" N-word at the top of his lungs, on camera.



* EveryoneHasStandards: Morad, the slightly-crazed Mossad agent who supports arming 4-year-old children, admonishes Jason Spencer (without breaking character!) for [[NWordPrivileges screaming the word "nigger" at the top of his lungs]], calling it "disgusting."

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Morad, the slightly-crazed Mossad agent who supports arming 4-year-old children, admonishes Jason Spencer (without breaking character!) for [[NWordPrivileges screaming the word "nigger" N-word at the top of his lungs]], calling it "disgusting."



* NWordPrivileges: Morad tells Jason Spencer that shouting "the N-word" out loud is the best way to attract attention to yourself (and consequently scare off kidnappers.) Spencer then immediately starts screaming the word "nigger". (The word Morad was thinking of was "noonie", [[BaitAndSwitch by the way.]])

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* NWordPrivileges: Morad tells Jason Spencer that shouting "the N-word" out loud is the best way to attract attention to yourself (and consequently scare off kidnappers.) Spencer then immediately starts screaming the word "nigger".N-word. (The word Morad was thinking of was "noonie", [[BaitAndSwitch by the way.]])



* RealityShowGenreBlindness: Whatever possessed Jason Spencer [[note]]Who was at the time of filming ''a serving member of the Georgia House of Representatives''[[/note]] to agree to [[invoked]] [[WhatAnIdiot drop his pants and scream the word "nigger"]] ''on camera'' has to qualify.

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* RealityShowGenreBlindness: Whatever possessed Jason Spencer [[note]]Who was at the time of filming ''a serving member of the Georgia House of Representatives''[[/note]] to agree to [[invoked]] [[WhatAnIdiot drop his pants and scream the word "nigger"]] N-word]] ''on camera'' has to qualify.
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* AsideGlance: Morad gives a split-second but ''priceless'' one to the camera after successfully tricking Jason Spencer into screaming the N-word at the top of his lungs, on camera.

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* AsideGlance: Morad gives a split-second but ''priceless'' one to the camera after successfully tricking Jason Spencer into screaming the N-word word "nigger" at the top of his lungs, on camera.



* EveryoneHasStandards: Morad, the slightly-crazed Mossad agent who supports arming 4-year-old children, admonishes Jason Spencer (without breaking character!) for [[NWordPrivileges screaming the n-word at the top of his lungs]], calling it "disgusting."

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Morad, the slightly-crazed Mossad agent who supports arming 4-year-old children, admonishes Jason Spencer (without breaking character!) for [[NWordPrivileges screaming the n-word word "nigger" at the top of his lungs]], calling it "disgusting."



* NWordPrivileges: Morad tells Jason Spencer that shouting "the N-word" out loud is the best way to attract attention to yourself (and consequently scare off kidnappers.) Spencer then immediately starts screaming the word you're probably thinking of. (The word Morad was thinking of was "noonie", [[BaitAndSwitch by the way.]])

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* NWordPrivileges: Morad tells Jason Spencer that shouting "the N-word" out loud is the best way to attract attention to yourself (and consequently scare off kidnappers.) Spencer then immediately starts screaming the word you're probably thinking of."nigger". (The word Morad was thinking of was "noonie", [[BaitAndSwitch by the way.]])



* RealityShowGenreBlindness: Whatever possessed Jason Spencer [[note]]Who was at the time of filming ''a serving member of the Georgia House of Representatives''[[/note]] to agree to [[invoked]] [[WhatAnIdiot drop his pants and scream the N-Word]] ''on camera'' has to qualify.

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* RealityShowGenreBlindness: Whatever possessed Jason Spencer [[note]]Who was at the time of filming ''a serving member of the Georgia House of Representatives''[[/note]] to agree to [[invoked]] [[WhatAnIdiot drop his pants and scream the N-Word]] word "nigger"]] ''on camera'' has to qualify.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Morad, the slightly-crazed Mossad agent who supports arming 4-year-old children, admonishes Jason Spencer (without breaking character!) for [[NWordPriviliges screaming the n-word at the top of his lungs]], calling it "disgusting."

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Morad, the slightly-crazed Mossad agent who supports arming 4-year-old children, admonishes Jason Spencer (without breaking character!) for [[NWordPriviliges [[NWordPrivileges screaming the n-word at the top of his lungs]], calling it "disgusting."
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* AssKicksYou: Morad convinces Spencer that this is the best way to [[ItMakesSenseInContext defend yourself against terrorists.]]

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* AssKicksYou: Morad convinces Spencer that this is the best way to [[ItMakesSenseInContext [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext defend yourself against terrorists.]]
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Morad, the slightly-crazed Mossad agent who supports arming 4-year-old children, admonishes Jason Spencer (without breaking character!) for [[NWordPriviliges screaming the n-word at the top of his lungs]], calling it "disgusting."
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* OnlySaneMan: Perhaps unsurprisingly, UsefulNotes/BernieSanders is the only politician interviewed by Cohen (as Billy Ruddick) who comes across in a good light, as he ''very calmly'' explains his positions to Billy without ever losing his patience, and never loses his cool even when Billy makes utterly ludicrous claims like that [[ArtisticLicenseStatistics combining 1 percent and 99 percent together you get 19%.]]
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* CringeComedy: The humor from the series mostly comes from placing Baron Cohen's interviewees in the most embarrassing situations possible, or having them say the most awkward or offensive thing possible (which is shockingly frecuent).

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* CringeComedy: The humor from the series mostly comes from placing Baron Cohen's interviewees in the most embarrassing situations possible, or having them say the most awkward or offensive thing possible (which is shockingly frecuent).frequent).
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** Baron Cohen often pulls the strings on many of his interviewees, such as when Billy Ruddick interviewed Corey Lewandowski and started praising Trump with Cory endorsing his behavior up until Ruddick brought up the fact that Trump called Miss Venezuela "Miss Piggy" and that must be a compliment to which not even Cory could defend that insult.

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** Baron Cohen often pulls the strings on many of his interviewees, such as when Billy Ruddick interviewed Corey Lewandowski and started praising Trump with Cory Corey endorsing his behavior up until Ruddick brought up the fact that Trump called Miss Venezuela "Miss Piggy" and that must be a compliment to which not even Cory Corey could defend that insult.
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* VulgarHumor: No surprise, considering who's behind the show. Rick Sherman making art out of [[invoked]] [[{{Squick}} ejaculate and pubic hair]] is only the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.

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* VulgarHumor: No surprise, considering who's behind the show. Rick Sherman making art out of [[invoked]] [[{{Squick}} ejaculate and pubic hair]] is only the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.speak.
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* GilliganCut: In the "Kinderguardians" segment, Matt Gaetz tells Morad that no legislator is going to go on TV to endorse a policy they just heard of. Cut to several political figures doing exactly that.[[note]]Remember, these are ''real people''.[[/note]]

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* GilliganCut: In the "Kinderguardians" segment, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz Matt Gaetz Gaetz]] tells Morad that no legislator is going to go on TV to endorse a policy they just heard of. Cut to several political figures (including [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Lott Trent Lott]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Rohrabacher Dana Rohrabacher]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson_(American_politician) Joe Wilson]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Walsh_(American_politician) Joe Walsh]]) doing exactly that.[[note]]Remember, these are ''real people''.[[/note]][[/note]]
-->'''Matt Gaetz:''' You want me to say on television that I support three- and four-year-olds with firearms? Is that what you're asking me to do?\\
'''Erran Morad:''' Uh, yes.\\
'''Matt Gaetz:''' Typically members of congress don't just hear a story about a program and then indicate whether they support it or not.\\
''[cut]''\\
'''Trent Lott:''' I support the "Kinderguardians" program.
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** Baron Cohen often pulls the strings on right-wing extremists, such as when Billy Ruddick interviewed Corey Lewandowski and started praising Trump with Cory endorsing his behavior up until Ruddick brought up the fact that Trump called Miss Venezuela "Miss Piggy" and that must be a compliment to which not even Cory could defend that insult.

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** Baron Cohen often pulls the strings on right-wing extremists, many of his interviewees, such as when Billy Ruddick interviewed Corey Lewandowski and started praising Trump with Cory endorsing his behavior up until Ruddick brought up the fact that Trump called Miss Venezuela "Miss Piggy" and that must be a compliment to which not even Cory could defend that insult.

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* BaitAndSwitch: "Picture this scene. You are chained to a radiator, naked, with a bag over your head. All of a sudden, terrorists break in and kidnap you...completely ruining [[NoodleIncident your birthday party]]."

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* BaitAndSwitch: BaitAndSwitch:
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"Picture this scene. You are chained to a radiator, naked, with a bag over your head. All of a sudden, terrorists break in and kidnap you...completely ruining [[NoodleIncident your birthday party]].""
** Baron Cohen often pulls the strings on right-wing extremists, such as when Billy Ruddick interviewed Corey Lewandowski and started praising Trump with Cory endorsing his behavior up until Ruddick brought up the fact that Trump called Miss Venezuela "Miss Piggy" and that must be a compliment to which not even Cory could defend that insult.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Corey Lewandowski, who claims that Trump is not a sexist or misogynist. When Billy points out Trump called a Miss Venezuela pageant girl "Miss Piggy" for being fat, Corey claims Trump was still reacting in a way that was necessary (not true, that joke was a jab at her weight). Billy then asks if Miss Piggy is supposed to be some sort of feminist icon.

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* ManipulativeBastard: Corey Lewandowski, who claims that Trump is not a sexist or misogynist. When Billy points out Trump called a Miss Venezuela pageant girl "Miss Piggy" for being fat, Corey claims Trump was still reacting in a way that was necessary (not true, that joke was a jab at her weight). Billy then asks if [[Franchise/TheMuppets Miss Piggy Piggy]] is supposed to be some sort of feminist icon.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Corey Lewandowski, who claims that Trump is not a sexist or misogynist. When Billy points out Trump called a Miss Venezuela pageant girl "Miss Piggy" for being fat, Corey claims Trump was still reacting in a way that was necessary (not true, that joke was a jab at her weight). Billy then asks if Miss Piggy is supposed to be some sort of feminist icon.

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* CardCarryingVillain: To whit:

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* CardCarryingVillain: To whit:whit, when Dr. Nira met the people of Kingman, Arizona:



* CringeComedy:
* {{Eagleland}}: The premise of the series.
* FakeAmerican: Sacha as Billy Ruddick and Dr. Nira.

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* CringeComedy:
CringeComedy: The humor from the series mostly comes from placing Baron Cohen's interviewees in the most embarrassing situations possible, or having them say the most awkward or offensive thing possible (which is shockingly frecuent).
* {{Eagleland}}: The premise of the series.
* FakeAmerican: Sacha as
series is that most of the interviewees, and some of Baron Cohen's characters (like Billy Ruddick and Dr. Nira.Ruddick) are a hard Type 2.



-->'''Jason Spencer:''' ''([[AsianSpeekeeEngrish faux-Chinese accent]])'' Oh, ''(unintelligible)'' [[CriticalResearchFailure Konichiwa]], Red Dragon Bejing, ''(unintelligible)'', [[CriticalResearchFailure sushi]], ''(unintelligible)'', Red Dragon, [[CriticalResearchFailure Ho Chi Minh City]]...
* NeverMyFault: While playing Ruddick, Sacha complained to Bernie that Obamacare is to blame for the fact he suddenly, spontaneously got diagnosed with both Type 1 and 2 diabetes and chalky deposits. Bernie did seem confused, but his reply was [[FlatYes "Billy, I'm not your doctor"]].
* NWordPrivileges: Morad tells Jason Spencer that shouting this out loud is the best way to attract attention to yourself (and consequently scare off kidnappers.) Spencer then immediately starts screaming the word you're probably thinking of. (The word Morad was thinking of was "noonie", [[BaitAndSwitch by the way.]])

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-->'''Jason Spencer:''' ''([[AsianSpeekeeEngrish faux-Chinese accent]])'' Oh, ''(unintelligible)'' [[invoked]] [[CriticalResearchFailure Konichiwa]], Red Dragon Bejing, ''(unintelligible)'', [[CriticalResearchFailure sushi]], ''(unintelligible)'', Red Dragon, [[CriticalResearchFailure Ho Chi Minh City]]...
* NeverMyFault: While playing Ruddick, Sacha complained to Bernie that Obamacare is to blame for the fact he suddenly, spontaneously got diagnosed with both Type 1 and 2 diabetes and chalky deposits. Bernie did seem confused, but his reply was [[FlatYes "Billy, I'm not your doctor"]].doctor".
* NWordPrivileges: Morad tells Jason Spencer that shouting this "the N-word" out loud is the best way to attract attention to yourself (and consequently scare off kidnappers.) Spencer then immediately starts screaming the word you're probably thinking of. (The word Morad was thinking of was "noonie", [[BaitAndSwitch by the way.]])



* RealityShowGenreBlindness: Whatever possessed Jason Spencer [[note]]Who was at the time of filming ''a serving member of the Georgia House of Representatives''[[/note]] to agree to [[WhatAnIdiot drop his pants and scream the N-Word]] ''on camera'' has to qualify.

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* RealityShowGenreBlindness: Whatever possessed Jason Spencer [[note]]Who was at the time of filming ''a serving member of the Georgia House of Representatives''[[/note]] to agree to [[invoked]] [[WhatAnIdiot drop his pants and scream the N-Word]] ''on camera'' has to qualify.



* VulgarHumor: No surprise, considering who's behind the show. Rick Sherman making art out of [[{{squick}} ejaculate and pubic hair]] is only the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.

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* VulgarHumor: No surprise, considering who's behind the show. Rick Sherman making art out of [[{{squick}} [[invoked]] [[{{Squick}} ejaculate and pubic hair]] is only the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.
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It’s not a Stealth Insult if they picked up on it.


-->'''Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello:''' Let me assure you that I share your concerns about terrorism, and we will do everything we can to [[StealthInsult protect these Muslims from it.]]

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-->'''Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello:''' Let me assure you that I share your concerns about terrorism, and we will do everything we can to [[StealthInsult protect these Muslims from it.]]

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* IAmAHumanitarian: Rick Sherman offers Bill Jilla what he claims to is the flesh of a Chinese dissident. Jilla ends up eating it quite willingly.



* NeverMyFault: While playing Ruddick, Sacha complained to Bernie that Obamacare is to blame for the fact he suddenly, spontaneously got diagnosed with both Type 1 and 2 diabetes and chalky deposits. Bernie did seem confused, but his reply was [[FlatYes "Billy, I'm not your doctor"]].
* NWordPrivileges: Morad tells Jason Spencer that shouting this out loud is the best way to attract attention to yourself (and consequently scare off kidnappers.) Spencer then immediately starts screaming the word you're probably thinking of. (The word Morad was thinking of was "noonie", [[BaitAndSwitch by the way.]])


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* NeverMyFault: While playing Ruddick, Sacha complained to Bernie that Obamacare is to blame for the fact he suddenly, spontaneously got diagnosed with both Type 1 and 2 diabetes and chalky deposits. Bernie did seem confused, but his reply was [[FlatYes "Billy, I'm not your doctor"]].
* NWordPrivileges: Morad tells Jason Spencer that shouting this out loud is the best way to attract attention to yourself (and consequently scare off kidnappers.) Spencer then immediately starts screaming the word you're probably thinking of. (The word Morad was thinking of was "noonie", [[BaitAndSwitch by the way.]])
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* TakeThat: Done to ''the target's face'', no less. Morad meets with Alabama politician [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore#Republican_U.S._Senate_primary Roy Moore]] to demonstrate a device he claims that can detect pedophiles, only to have the machine beep for a positive reading every time he points it at Moore. Moore is [[CaptainObvious not amused.]]

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* TakeThat: Done to ''the target's face'', no less. Morad meets with Alabama politician [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore#Republican_U.S._Senate_primary Roy Moore]] to demonstrate a device he claims that can detect pedophiles, only to have the machine beep for a positive reading every time he points it at Moore. Moore is [[CaptainObvious not amused.]]
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Morad has Dick Cheney sign a waterboarding kit that was previously signed by Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Music/DemiLovato.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Morad has Dick Cheney sign a waterboarding kit "waterboarding kit" that was previously signed by the likes of Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Music/DemiLovato.

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