Cenk Uygur
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Why Did Russian Ambassador Tweet Picture Of Kumar?
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October 25, 2015
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2:34Now PlayingRussian ambassador Alexander Yakovenko tweeted a pic of actor Kal Penn from a Harold & Kumar movie to show the insidious nature of terrorists. Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?), John Iadarola (Think Tank), and Lissette Padilla, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss.
“Actor Kal Penn has found himself mistaken for a terrorist -- again.
After his character, Kumar Patel, was flagged as an Islamic extremist in the 2008 movie, "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay," it seems the "terrorist" tag just won't shake.
Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian Ambassador to the UK, used a still from the movie -- showing Kumar imagined as an extremist and taunting an elderly female airline passenger -- to illustrate a point about U.S. involvement in the fight against ISIS in Iraq.”
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