Posted on 03/05/2015 6:11:48 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
No late-night talk show host had filmed in Cuba since Jack Paar in 1959 — so when President Obama announced plans to thaw relations with the country last December, Conan O’Brien jumped on the opportunity.
His resulting four-day, clandestine trip to Havana over President’s Day weekend is documented on Wednesday’s episode of “Conan” (11 p.m. on TBS) — which finds the 6-foot-4, red-haired host in a country where the locals don’t recognize him (and he has only an eighth-grade knowledge of Spanish with which to communicate).
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Dennis Rodman redux
He better hope he doesn’t need medical attention during his trip.
THAT could be an eye opener for him
It’s all about him, dontcha know.
No? Well, they'll just do it on their own.
Oh. Wait. I completely forgot. Cubans can't travel abroad freely no matter how strongly they feel about it.
Sleep will, Conan. Sleep well.
I saw an excerpt on Foxnews this morning. He was pretending to be a CNN news anchor discussing a dog barking.
He emulated Mr Fancy Pants (Anderson Cooper) quite well and said he had proved he had the skills necessary to do the job.
It was entertaining.
The pro-Obama/pro-Castro media in Miami is applauding this crap.
He said the best thing about his trip was the people. Which is the same thing JPII intoned when he went to Cuba.
His hotel will have had hidden cameras and bugs throughout and his possessions will have been searched. I met the director of Cuban intelligence who defected and now works with the FBI and he did a whole presentation on how they handle celebrities and pretty much any American that visits Cuba. They also employ attractive women to casually meet and hopefully sleep with the target so they have blackmail material.
Why don't they recognize him? Don't they have television in Cuber?
What level of education do the locals have on, oh, I don't know, Communism versus Freedom?
Didn’t Jim Belushi go to Cuba a few years back touting the greatness of Communism and the regime? Just another Hollywood fool tool.
I pity the poor female femspy who was ordered to seduce Michael Moore.
Well, she took a small one for the team. If she remembered to stay on top.
Are you certain it was female?
Before Castro, the Cubans did not need visa to visit U.S. or establishing residence in this country. Cubans did not need before the triumph of the Cuban communist revolution to cross in make shift rafts the Florida Straits where 4 for every 5 Cubans lost their lives in their pursuit of freedom, they came by plane or ferry as tourists and students. There were not Cuban dreamers in quest of the American opportunities. In fact, before Castro, there were more Americans living in Cuba than Cubans living in United States.
About the much maligned portray of Cuba as an American playground and mafia enclave. It must noted that in Cuba before Castro, the mafiosi that created Las Vegas’ emporium, had only three casinos in Havana and the yearly income of those casinos together were less than the income of any single Las Vegas casinos in a week.
Before Castro an average of 200,000 American tourists visited Cuba, in 2014, it was over 650,000. But together with Americans, came also thousands of tourists from Europe and Latin American including many looking for sex with children. Cuba is now a Mecca for the most depraved pedophiles that go there looking for sexual exploitation of children. In fact Havana is second only Bangkok in that abominable crime.
Those tourists that travel to Cuba in looking for run and sex are aiding and abetting the most brutal murderer regime in the history of this hemisphere.
Renowned English historian, Hugh Thomas, who wrote an scholar “History of Cuba, The Pursuit of Freedom” from the Discovery to the beginning of Castro’s revolution, referring to Castro’s Cuba affirmed in The Spectator (7/12/1986): “The comparison must be with the account of Nazi concentration camps. Although there as yet no gas chambers in Cuba, there have been experiments of a criminal biological type designed to see how far an individual can survive starvation, beating, solitary confinement, and many various kinds of ill treatment. Valladares’ account of working in a stone quarry is not dissimilar to, and no more humane than, the many accounts extant of ‘life’ in Manthausen.”
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