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Kara Weisenstein

Disgraced congressional candidate Roy Moore tried to sue Sacha Baron Cohen. It didn't go well

If it's been a while since you watched the five-minute Who Is America? sketch where Sacha Baron Cohen waves a "pedophile detector" at Roy Moore, now is the time to revisit it. Always the chameleon, Cohen duped the former Senate candidate into an interview by posing as a fictional Israeli anti-terrorism expert. Pretending to show off innovative technology, a wand he said could identify "sex offenders and particularly pedophiles," the comedian waved it over Moore, and it started beeping.

"I've never had an accusation of such things," the flustered politician protested. "Certainly, I'm not a pedophile," he said before storming out of the 2018 interview. But actually, Who Is America? aired after Moore was accused of sexual misconduct by numerous women, one of whom claimed he initiated a sexual encounter with her when she was 14.

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