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Conan to film special in Haiti after Trump's 's---hole' insult
EW ^ | January 14, 2018

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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KEYWORDS: haiti; hellholes; hollywood
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To: Mark17

And you can bet your bippy he and his crew will take along or acquire all the cushy air-conditioned conveniences and comforts to shield them from the stark reality of misery in Haiti. It will be a fraudulent, hypocritical farce from beginning to end.


41 posted on 01/15/2018 5:21:40 AM PST by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: SMGFan

Here’s hoping he don’t get raped....on camera.


42 posted on 01/15/2018 5:24:37 AM PST by Kudsman ( Anyone to the Right of Stalin is a Far Right Wing candidate to the Far Left Wing Media.)
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To: SMGFan

I’m sure he’s going with plenty of security, and that he will coordinate his visit with local authorities. It wouldn’t due to have Conan robbed, kidnapped or killed. Why doesn’t he just show up there unannounced, and alone, walk the streets with a hidden camera, and see what happens.


43 posted on 01/15/2018 5:29:19 AM PST by euram
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To: Mark17
Of course he will. He is not going to show the areas that prove the place is a shithole.

And when he only goes to the nice spots, people will say, "Haiti isn't a shithole after all! They got it pretty good over there. No need to bring them here!"

44 posted on 01/15/2018 5:29:42 AM PST by Drew68
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To: euram

Bet he won’t let anyone talk about the Clinton Foundation.


45 posted on 01/15/2018 5:30:33 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: MayflowerMadam; stockpirate

Want to see the picture on his face when he realizes that the capitol, doesn’t have a sewer system and that crap and pee, flow freely thru the street.

But, who knows, maybe the Haitian’s will force him and his crew into the worst places and then talk about getting robbed by the Clinton’s. Of course, if that happens, whatever plane Conan and his crew are flying on, will go down due to mechanical failure with no survivors. Even if that mechanical failure is caused by a Stinger missile.


46 posted on 01/15/2018 5:30:40 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Drew68
And when he only goes to the nice spots, people will say, "Haiti isn't a shithole after all! They got it pretty good over there. No need to bring them here!"

Good point. Why do they need to come here?

47 posted on 01/15/2018 5:37:59 AM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Mark17
Why do they need to come here?

Fundamentally, this is what President Trump is asking. "Why does America need unskilled, illiterate immigrants from broken countries to come here and immediately go on public assistance?"

This is the only conversation we need to be having right now on this subject.

48 posted on 01/15/2018 5:47:44 AM PST by Drew68
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To: SMGFan
Conan to film special in Haiti after Trump's 's---hole’ insult
The planted axiom is that Mr. Trump said what Lying Dick Durbin quoted him as saying. Mr. Durbin is the one who has placed that claim in the public domain, and that claim is at most a “He said, she said” situation since Mr. Trump and another Republican have denied it.

Put the best face on Mr. Durbin’s statement and he has unnecessarily damaged US relations with foreign countries. Probably (tho it is unlikely ever to be adjudicated) he has slandered the president in the process.


49 posted on 01/15/2018 5:55:49 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: SMGFan

The advance team is going to scout hard to find clean happy well fed Haitians living with indoor plumbing

Maybe they can tour Clinton funded housing

I’ ma bet they end up choppering over to the DR for showers and 5 star hotels

Hey Conan - take some Haitians home while you’re at it


50 posted on 01/15/2018 6:02:02 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: qaz123

Paging James O Keefe!


51 posted on 01/15/2018 6:03:00 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: SMGFan

Live from Potemkin Village, Haiti, it’s the Onan O’Brian Show!


52 posted on 01/15/2018 6:06:52 AM PST by IronJack (A)
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To: MayflowerMadam
I believe the Haitians are more partial to our “side” than the other side, considering what the Clintons did.
The Haitians aren’t the only ones who have a beef over that, either. The money they ripped off didn’t come from Haiti.

Lyin Dick Durbin has gratuitously damaged US relations with foreign states. That is true whether (however unlikely) or not his statement approximated the truth. Senator Durbin should be censured by his colleagues.

And the FCC should enforce its rule against pottymouth broadcasting, Mr. Durbin’s status as a senator notwithstanding.


53 posted on 01/15/2018 6:06:58 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: IronJack

If Conan’s show was on during WWII he would have spent a week in Thereisienstadt, proclaiming how well the Jews were being treated.


54 posted on 01/15/2018 6:09:12 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: SMGFan

So, will this knucklehead social justice warrior “get down with the people” by sleeping on a sidewalk in Port au-Prince, next to a filthy trash dump, relieving himself in an open gutter, and spending no more than $2-3 dollars a day for meals and other expenses, all the while trying to find some Haitians to film who will say for the benefit of his American audience that they are outraged that Trump, who is obviously a racist, would call their beautiful country one of the enema locales of the world?


55 posted on 01/15/2018 6:09:59 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: Unam Sanctam; All

Speaking of virtue signaling
Do you foresee a whole new niche for “ shithole tourism”?
Why should the rich go to Aspen Baja or DR when they can go to Haiti , the Congo, Eritrea, Pakistan, or one of the Mexican states on State Department warning list?


56 posted on 01/15/2018 6:10:26 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Morpheus2009
"Six years after the earthquake, people remain homeless, with fewer than 1500 homes rebuilt, and many rebuilt again because of poor workmanship. The ABC investigation found that at the same time, the Clinton Foundation said it ‘facilitated’ the construction of a luxury hotel in Port-au-Prince, owned by a man who donated $10 million to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation." I think this is from Townhall.com.

I suppose they'll stay in Hillary's new hotel....

57 posted on 01/15/2018 6:22:36 AM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Yeah, that Royal Caribbean port. Been there. Fenced off from the rest of the island with 10-foot Hugh fences. To get to the top of the zip line shown in the photo, you are driven in jeeps with armed security (openly carrying scary black automatic weapons). When the ship arrives, Royal Caribbean rolls out piles of food and drink. As the passengers make their way around the various kiosks of freshly grilled food, laid out in obscene abundance, they can see starving Haitians on the other side of the fence, motioning with their hands to their mouths, begging for food.

That is easily the most depressing place I have ever been. I don’t know exactly whose fault it is that Haiti is a s-hole, but it is most definitely a s-hole, and the misery and suffering of the people is terrible. One thing I am sure of, is that bringing a bunch of them here does nothing to fix what is wrong THERE.

58 posted on 01/15/2018 6:23:47 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: SMGFan

Here’s a dirty little secret that may surprise many; The Haitians in the US Mainland don’t want an influx of poverty stricken Haitians here, the Democrats don’t realize it yet, but they’re over playing this.


59 posted on 01/15/2018 6:27:17 AM PST by eaglestar
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To: euram

What Conan is going to do is promote Haiti by showing us what little good they have there to look at.

What would impress me? If Conan drank the tap water Live and we got to visit him a few days after.


60 posted on 01/15/2018 6:33:22 AM PST by eaglestar
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