Jaunted this morning reports that a fourth offensive in Kazakhstan’s war against the Borat movie is upon us. Not content to stop at a highly visible ad section glorifying their country in the NY Times, a state visit by President Nazarbayev, and a $40 million epic about a Kazakh folk hero that’s currently in the works, the Kazakh government is now infiltrating American TV with ads promoting Kazakhstan as an exotic Eurasian destination. Apparently, Nazarbayev is a real tourist draw, because he makes a cameo appearance in the clip. Jaunted poster djk claims to have seen the beast on CNN today, but you can witness its cheesy production values and overly loud voiceover here:



This news follows last week’s report that Borat tried and failed to gain entrance to the White House during Nazarbayev’s meeting with President Bush, to deliver an invitation to his movie. Of course, that didn’t deter him from finding new ways to antagonize the government of his purported home country:

“Shortly after Nazarbayev dedicated a statue in front of the Kazakh embassy, Borat denounced an official Kazakh publicity campaign running in U.S. magazines as ‘disgusting fabrications’ orchestrated by neighboring Uzbekistan.

‘If there is one more item of Uzbek propaganda claiming that we do not drink fermented horse urine, give death penalty for baking bagels, or export over 300 tons of human pubis per year, then we will be left with no alternative but to commence bombardment of their cities with our catapults,’ Borat said.”