"All claims that our glorious leaders is displeased with my film, 'Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,' is lyings," Borat said to tittering reporters. "In fact, main purpose of President Naserbayev's visit to Washington is promote this movie film."

Nazarbayev will be hosting a screening of the film, Borat said, with invited guests to include President "George Walter Bush," Secretary Rumsfeld, Bill Gates, "O J Simpsons" and "Mel Gibsons."

Borat, of course, is not really from Kazakhstan. He's not really "Borat." He's Sacha Baron Cohen, a British Jewish, Cambridge-educated comedian who plays the fictional Kazakh reporter on HBO's "Da Ali G Show" and in his upcoming film.

But Cohen's portrayal of the eastern European country has so upset the Kazakhstan government that it has recently run television ads refuting Borat's point of view. "Conclave calls for religious tolerance among all faiths throughout the world," read one headline in a four-page New York Times insert.

The timing of Borat's D.C. stunt wasn't exactly a coincidence. Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev kicked off a tour of the U.S. on September 28, and Borat's film is being released in November.

In "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," which has been described by critics as hilariously offensive, the fictitious Kazakh journalist leaves behind his beloved homeland and heads off to America.

As he drives cross country in hopes of meeting Pamela Anderson, he spoofs himself and the U.S. with equal deftness. At a midwestern rodeo, Borat proclaims his support for the war on terror and tells the cheering crowd, "May your warlord George Bush kill the terrorist men, women and children, and drink their blood!"

The film is just the latest shot in an escalating battle between the comedian and Kazakhstan.

Source: ABC News