British comedian and seasoned prankster Sacha Baron Cohen infiltrated the right wing March for Our Rights 3 demonstration in Olympia, Washington over the weekend. Cohen posed as a down-home country singer and blagged his way on stage to perform at the event, The Olympian reports.
March For Our Rights 3 was organised by Washington Three Percent, which has been referred to as a right-wing militia organisation. The name of the event was a nod to the student-organised March for Our Lives demonstrations held in the wake of the Parkland school shooting in 2018.
Footage posted on YouTube and Twitter reveals the stark racism and anti-Democrat/anti-truth contents of Cohen’s original song. In full hillbilly disguise, the comedian rattles off a list of the far right’s favourite political enemies, promising to inject them with the “Wuhan Flu.”
“Obama, what we gonna do? / Inject him with the Wuhan Flu,” he sings in a comic Southern accent.
Wuhan Flu is a racist variant on the name COVID-19, which is commonly employed by Donald Trump and his supporters on the right. The name alludes to the conspiracy theory that the novel coronavirus was developed in a Wuhan lab and intentionally spread worldwide.
Cohen wasn’t averse to digging up some old far right rally cries, either. “Hillary, what we gonna do? / Lock her up like we used to do,” he sings, echoing a popular chant heard at Trump rallies.
The song also took a swipe at the US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci: “Fauci don’t now his head from his ass / He might be smoking grass / We got locked down by a clown / I ain’t lying, it ain’t no jokes / Corona is a liberal hoax.”
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While Cohen’s audience was exactly teeming, they were more than happy to sing along. The song also named the likes of CNN, the WHO, Anderson Cooper, the #MeToo movement, liberals and COVID tests as enemies.
Check out Sacha Baron Cohen at March For Our Rights 3:
