The Georgia lawmaker who screamed the N-word on Sacha Baron Cohen's show is resigning

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• Georgia state Rep. Jason Cohen yelled the N-word and exposed himself on comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's TV show "Who Is America?"
• Cohen was pretending to be an Israeli counterterrorism expert giving Spencer what he believed was a lesson in fighting terrorists.
• Spencer said in a long statement yesterday that he regretted his actions, but would stay in office until the end of his term.
• Spencer will now step down at the end of the month, according to a spokesperson for the Georgia house speaker.

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The Georgia lawmaker who yelled the N-word and bared his butt in an effort to turn ISIS terrorists "homosexual" on comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new TV show is resigning at the end of the month.

Georgia representative Jason Spencer was humiliated by footage from "Who is America?", in which Cohen posed as a counterterrorism expert and taught Spencer a series of absurd self-defense techniques on camera.

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