Where's Conan — still with the barbarians?

That’s not entirely an invented question because, although I’ve certainly herd of the moron over the years, I’d never seen his TV show, and I had to look him up just now, querying, “Is Conan O’Brien still on TV?” It turns out that he isn’t — left the medium in 2021, in fact. Surprise, surprise, surprise, as Gomer might say, but hell, it seems to me that he now has plenty of free time to go back to paradise and see if anyone there can use his help.

In any event, over at RedState David Strom points out that Conn is not alone in his indifference:

Reminder: Lefties Are Always Gaslighting

David Strom, HotAir:

Another day, another atrocity beyond comprehension in Haiti. 

So far, according to the ever-reliable United Nations, around 5000 people have been murdered in political violence in Haiti this year, with 184 dying over the weekend because a gang lord decided to go on a killing spree after a VooDoo priest told him that elderly people had cursed his son, causing him to die. 

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Haiti has long been in the running for Worst Place on Earth™, although temporary spikes of awfulness in other regions of the world keep it off the top of the list at any one time or another. A war here and an earthquake there may keep Haiti from being the worst place at any one moment, but it is always near the top of the list while others come and go. 

It is, in other words, what Trump called it: a "s**thole" country. 

I bring up Haiti's problems not to dunk on the poor people of Haiti, the vast majority of whom have committed no crime other than being losers in the lottery of birth location. They didn't ask to be born in Haiti, and I sympathize with their plight. I am damn sure glad I don't live there!

No, the people I want to dunk on are the Trump-obsessed who during Trump's term chose to portray Haiti as the apotheosis of civilization because Trump insulted the country. 

Trump's knock on Haiti and other third-world countries was unforgivable to all the "right" people, for whom the greatest sin is to say something that, while true, is politically incorrect. 

So they started a campaign: Haiti is Great Already," as a slam to Trump's MAGA. 

The fact that Haiti is anything BUT great was totally irrelevant, because reality is defined for these people by their likes and dislikes, nothing so prosaic as "reality." Trump's speaking the truth was unforgivable….

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Ironically, Conan O'Brien and the celebrities who latched onto this issue were using Haiti in precisely the way they accused Trump of doing. All these wealthy white Americans used Haitians as a political prop. As Haitians suffer under terrible conditions, Conan O'Brien sipped rum out of a coconut to "own" Trump. 

There obviously is nothing wrong with the impulse to help Haitians--they are human beings and we should feel empathy for them--but the job of the President of the United States is to look out for Americans, not Haitians. Americans, should they choose to, can do their good deeds for the Haitian people, and God bless them for doing so. 

But Conan O'Brien and his merry band of lefties aren't helping anyone. They were exploiting Haitians back then to make a political point, which is actually far worse than Trump blurting the truth out loud. 

Blunt truths may offend, but they generally give better results. Trump wanted to defend Americans. The lefties? They wanted to massage their own egos, no matter the cost. 

Four years of Biden's "compassion" haven't helped Haitians, but they have hurt Americans. 

Lose-lose. Except fpr the lefties who feel warm and fuzzy about themselves.