Posted on 01/15/2018 3:16:09 AM PST by SMGFan
Conan O’Brien was one of many Americans who were unhappy to read the reports that President Donald Trump called some foreign nations, including Haiti, “s—hole” countries — an insult that has been met with outrage and charges of racism. (Trump and Republican officials have disputed the exact comment, and today, Trump declared, “I am not a racist.”) But the host of Conan is not just doing a monologue about it, he’s hopping on a plane and letting cameras roll for an hourlong special.
O’Brien will take his TBS late-night talk show on the road again, this time to Haiti, to film a special episode of his show under the Conan Without Borders banner, the network confirmed on Sunday. And O’Brien, who shared the news first on Twitter, sounds ready to reestablish ties with the Caribbean nation in his own way.
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There is a good reason Haiti is a $hithole: It is a very dangerous place to visit.
This might not work out as planned for Conan. He is subjecting his crew to possible rape, assault, murder, or deadly diseases.
Though we may never know it, I imagine many in his crew will swear to never go to Haiti again after this trip.
Will he be reporting on the Dominican/Haitian border where Haitians are treated like foreign invaders?
Has he interviewed any average Joe’s who have gotten bonuses from Trump’s tax cut?
Even the better-run resort islands have striking differences between the tourist side (leeward,sand beaches/services) and the local side (windward,less sand, more debris, no services) or the shore vs interior. There’s also usually a cosmopolitan capitol and rural villages to compare. In the larger capitols, there are neighborhoods where tourists are unwelcome, if they somehow got there.
Years ago, the daughter of a friend visited Jamaica, proudly telling us she intended to avoid the resorts and experience “real life”. Her “real life” experience lasted one afternoon and one uncomfortable and scary night. The second morning, she checked into a reputable resort.
We visited the Caribbean regularly from the mid-’80s to late ‘90s and avoided certain islands. Some of the worst-run places had the priciest exclusive resorts tucked far away from where real people lived.
Same in Papua New Guinea. Not as true, back then, in French Polynesia. In the 70’s, Pacific island villagers seemed much like rural dwellers anywhere: a rougher life, traditional, but lived with pride. By the early 2000’s, a new generation with phones and motorbikes were unionized and surly. Some charming places had indeed turned into ——holes, but it seemed more due to the individuals who trashed what infrastructure had been put in place.Satellite communications and the internet made a difference. People who lived simply in isolated places got to see the rest of the world, who, in turn, swarmed their homes looking for something unspoiled.
Haiti, though, was raped repeatedly.
He should do a series:
Toilets Around the World.
I would like to see his security while filming. loL!
Royal Caribbean owns a small slice if Haiti and it is HEAVENLY! But it’s only a VERY small slice.
AMEN!! Labadee!!!!
Sh**hole, a word you will not be uttered out the mouth of libtard Conan because he won’t dare admit such a reality when he does actually go to Haiti....bet.
Nor will he even remotely mention or indicate how the Clinton’s fraked over Haiti, as well......everything wrong with Haiti will be the fault of Trump, etc.
Conan... It was nice knowing you. BTW - I suggest that you have your ashes scattered, so the vultures won’t eat your decaying body on some trash heap in Haiti.
Haiti has a murder rate of over 200 per 100,000. I am pretty sure that you would have to multiply the murder rate of the United States to get that high. It might even exceed any U.S. city.
Conan should also show all ‘the good’ the Clinton foundation has done for those people too - if he can find any.
Because where would one be without left wing virtue signaling?
I LOVE that idea — film the filming. ALL of it. Film Conan and crew checking in to their hotel, eating at the best restaurants. I’m sure they’ll pick the nicest places, where the cruise ship tourists go.
Someone mentioned James O’Keefe. It would be cool he had staff embedded in Conan’s crew.
The media manipulation is disgustingly masterful at times, with absolutely no shame.
PRESIDENT TRUMP DIDN’T USE THAT LANGUAGE. FAKE DEM ACCUSATION.
Even the NY SLIMES has this story.
Who gives a flip where Conan broadcasts from. Nobody watches that geek anyway.
If any of his crew happens to do any real research about where they’re going, Conan may find those people backing out of the trip.
After repeated requests for me to accompany her to Haiti to our nonprofit client, and my refusals, she asked me what I would do if she made it a work requirement for me to go. I looked at her and said that I thought she and I would be very sad at parting ways. She hasn’t asked me since.
Peach
We’re actually thinking about going to DR for our 35th anniversary next year.
Conan the fair haired will blister so close to the equator.
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