First he incited rednecks into a fury by mangling our national anthem, got another group of hicks to sing along to a little ditty called “Throw the Jew Down the Well,” and now Borat’s got the entire country of Kazakstan on his ass.

Of course, bumbling Borat is only one of the alter egos of British/Jewish comedic genius Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Ali G.

From Reuters:

Cohen appears to have drawn official Kazakh ire after he hosted the annual MTV Europe Music Awards show in Lisbon earlier this month as Borat, who arrived in an Air Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle.

“We do not rule out that Mr. Cohen is serving someone’s political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its people in a derogatory way,” Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news briefing. “We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind.”

Somehow, methinks it’ll take more than legal action to stop Borat. With his own movie coming out soon, Kazahkstan should settle in for some widespread P.R. damage control, no?

Hat tip to Defamer.