We may never actually see Sacha Baron Cohen's interview with Sarah Palin
In the lead-up to Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime series Who Is America?, few people worked harder to promote the show than Sarah Palin. Before we really knew anything about the show, Palin loudly jumped up and declared that she had been duped into a “long ‘interview’ full of Hollywoodism’s disrespect and sarcasm,” and when she realized she was being mocked, she “literally” took off her mic and walked out. She was eager to frame this as a big blow to Baron Cohen, saying he had posed as a disabled U.S. veteran and that he was upset in some way when she left, but he eventually fired back with an in-character response to her complaints and Showtime denied that Baron Cohen was disguised as a disable veteran. In the end, though, it seemed clear that Palin didn’t really care about what had happened, because any opportunity for her to get on TV is worth taking.