infuriate a crowd at a rodeo in Salem, Virginia. Even though the crowd first cheered at the beginning of his statements of support for the Iraq War: He then went on to sing an out-of-tune rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" with the lyrics replaced by those of the fictitious "Kazakh national anthem" "O Kazakhstan" used at the end of the film (composed by Erran Baron Cohen), beginning with "Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world / All other countries are run by little girls..." The crowd was not pleased. One witness stated that "if he [Baron Cohen] had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him [...] people were booing him, flipping him off." For his own safety, Baron Cohen was escorted from the venue (much of the event appears in the movie). A credible news report about the incident, aired on a local television station, is included in the DVD extras. References External links boratonline.co.uk Semi-official Borat site since 1999 – contains interviews with Dan Mazer and Sacha Baron Cohen Comedy film characters 20th Century Studios characters Comedy television characters Television characters introduced in 1997 Fictional interviewers Sacha Baron Cohen Fictional offspring of incestuous relationships Incest in fiction Fictional reporters Fictional television personalities Fictional Soviet people Fictional Kazakhstani people Fictional Muslims Ethnic humour