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Mon 11 Nov 2006Cohen looking for anti-Semitism in the wrong placeOpinion:Borat is many things: a side-splitting triumph of slapstick and scatology, a runaway moneymaker and budding franchise, the worst thing to happen to Kazakhstan since the Mongol hordes and, as columnist David Brooks astutely points out, a supreme display of elite snobbery revelling in the humiliation of the hoaxed hillbilly, writes Charles KrauthammerBut it is one thing more, something Brooks alluded to in passing but which requires at least one elaboration: an unintentionally revealing demonstration of the unfortunate attitude of many liberal Jews toward working-class American Christians, especially evangelicals.