When determining who to blame for the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi, don’t’ forget Sacha Baron Cohen. More than any other single person Cohen has established that it’s okay to lure others into humiliating themselves on-camera, then make the results public so the rest of us can enjoy a good laugh. The two classmates who secretly recorded Clementi in the arms of another man then streamed the results may have seen themselves as being in the Borat tradition. Like so many others wielding hidden webcams and camcorders these days, perhaps they simply wanted to be like Sacha.
