It's a movie that offends and embarrasses Americans. It's called Borat and one of the scenes in the movie was filmed in Salem.
Carey Harveycutter runs the Salem Civic Center, the place where Sacha Baron Cohen staged one of his infamous pranks.
Back in January 2005, he tricked organizers into allowing him to sing the national anthem at a rodeo.
He purposely got the words wrong and criticized President Bush's war in Iraq.
The crowd clearly wasn't laughing.
Since then, the civic center has worked to make sure this type of prank never happens again.
Anyone wishing to sing the national anthem must now send an audition tape.
Nearly two years after the prank, Harveycutter can now laugh about the whole ordeal but he still feels Cohen's antics were inappropriate.
But Harveycutter still has a sense of humor. In fact, he wants to do a salute to Kazakhstan at the rodeo next year.
it's articles like this that make me hate this country. how ignorant and biased.