According to a report in the Roanoke (Virginia) Times, a man who was introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan — in reality a Cohen character named Borat (this is the format of the Ali G Show - to use dubious means to get access) — appeared at the rodeo over the weekend after organizers agreed to have him sing the national anthem.

• After telling the crowd
• he supported America’s war on terrorism,
• he said,
• “I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards ...
• And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq.”
• He then sang a garbled version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

It is not the first time Cohen has wooed controversy with his show, which airs on HBO. In one episode last year, Borat sang an anti-Semitic song called “Throw the Jew Down the Well” at a country music bar, prompting protests from the Anti-Defamation League.