like newt has probably the same understanding that mr wash has here that borat is the punchline not the setup and like for example i'm brazillian and i watched this movie years ago as a teen not knowing a lot about america and then as an adult knowing a lot about it and both times it was a blast like the movie is funny you know schadenfreude is a thing like even without knowing that this movie is about american bigotry or in newt and wash cases being blissfully unaware that it is about them, we can find fun on the absurdity and on the discomfort that other people feel, but when it is our in group we start to get defensive because in a sense it is "you", nader and noam might just be boring and not like that because they think of themselves to highly to enjoy dumb movie or something like that

edit: i just thought about nader and chomsky a bit more and i think maybe if not the being boring thing it might because they are old so they have much more pride in america and like being american than the younger leftists and stuff like they might see it as their in-group also in a weird way being mocked