An unsuspecting Roy Moore stormed out of an interview with a disguised Sacha Baron Cohen after the comedian waved a fake pedophile-detecting device over the politician.
Sunday's episode of the new Showtime series "Who is America?" featured a sit-down between Cohen, who was pretending to be an Israeli anti-terror expert, and Moore, who did not realize he was being interviewed by Cohen.
The segment involved Cohen's character, Gen. Erran Morad, telling Moore that Israel had created a hand-held device capable of detecting sex offenders nearby. Moore, a former Senate candidate from Alabama, was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, including one, Leigh Corfman, who claimed the politician sexually abused her when she was 14.
"It turns out sex offenders and particularly pedophiles secrete an enzyme for DDHT, which is actually detectable," Cohen, in character, says to Moore. "It is three times the level as non-perverts. So the phrase 'sweating like a rapist' is actually based on science. So in Israel they've developed a machine that is used in schools to detect anyone coming in, and if they detect the pedophile, the wand alerts the law enforcement and the schools within a hundred-mile radius."
Cohen then began to wave the wand over himself, and it didn't make any noise. When he waved it over Moore, the device started beeping.
"It must be faulty," Cohen's character said. "It's malfunctioning."
The machine continued to beep every time he placed it over Moore, but not when he removed it.
"I've been married for 33. I never had an accusation of such things," Moore says to Cohen. "If this is an instrument, then certainly I'm not a pedophile."
Moore then ended the interview early, shook Cohen's hand and walked away.
In April, Moore _ who lost to Democratic candidate Doug Jones in the special election last year _ sued Corfman for defamation and slander.
Sunday's "Who is America?" marked the third episode of the new series. Last week's show also made headlines, as it featured Cohen, dressed as the same character, tricking Georgia lawmaker Jason Spencer into committing offensive behavior as part of a fake anti-terrorism training video.
Georgia officials have since condemned Spencer, who shouted the N-word four times during the segment and also pulled down his pants after Cohen told him he can scare away ISIS members by touching them with his backside.
