Something F*ked up about the promos for the Conan O'Brien talk show

[txlibdem]

Did anyone see the f*ked up thing about the commercial for the Conan talk show? Watch closely.

He goes to India to make the fabric for his TV show set! How F*Ked up is that? We used to have a textile industry here in the USA. They had a good union, they tried to keep their jobs but we all turned our backs on them - now there are NO textiles made here in the USA.

I'm not in Conan's demographic anyway but if I were I would refuse to watch his show for that reason alone.

BUY AMERICAN. If there are no American made products of that type then start protests and marches and letter writing campaigns till they bring back those American jobs! We must all stand together or we will all fall victim one by one. (Oops! We already have)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. And the Masturbating Bear sends an anti-environmental message.

:rofl:

[deacon]

39. LOL!

[proteus_lives]

48. I always thought he was a plant by the RCC to show how beating off gives you "hairy" palms.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. Dupe, delete.

[Warpy]

3. Shit, it's not like the man had a fucking choice in the matter

We DON'T make cloth in this country and haven't for about 20 years. It's one of the key industries we lack that will make it extremely hard to survive the next war, let alone win it. We'd be wearing patches on patches and have to turn to knitting when those wore through. If we knew how to knit, that is. Most don't.

[txlibdem]

6. Unfortunately not even knitting, that's made in China

You're dead on the mark in saying that there are a number of key industries that have been closed up and sent to other countries.

Chips for our missiles, chemicals for our bombs, aircraft parts, nuclear (everything), and just about everything we'd be totally f*ked without in an actual war (not the expensive BS wars we're fighting now). Do we even have a steel industry anymore?

[CreekDog]

18. you're acting like you just watched a documentary about how Conan's show is produced

:dunce:

[txlibdem]

24. That's ok. Some people have no capacity to see beyond the obvious

Don't feel bad. You're still going to make some rich SOB even richer somehow...

Don't you worry about a thing...

[CreekDog]

27. the obvious being what?

do you believe that commercial to be a true depiction of how Conan O'Brien equips his show?

[txlibdem]

29. Why, yes. Yes I do.

And I believe that his curtains will be just that shade as well. I also believe that some people cannot see beyond the obvious and that, most importantly, we have all met one of those today.

[CreekDog]

33. yes you apparently think it was a documentary

like a NOVA or Frontline showing how Conan prepares for his show.

you probably thought all the Christopher Guest movies were actual events too.

:eyes:

we can keep going here, you are just proving yourself outrageously silly.

[txlibdem]

36. You got it

I'm proving MYSELF to be silly. Mmm-hmm. That's what's going on here... Sure it is.

Keep telling yourself that.

[CreekDog]

42. Conan's segments on "The Year 2000" will make you really mad then

almost none of that stuff actually happned! :grr:

and the pictures of celebrity babies turned out to be false, in fact, the supposed "parents" never actually had children!

:rant:

[CreekDog]

44. .

[Greyhound]

59. One of the funniest things I've seen here in quite some time. Thanks. n/t

:hi::rofl:

[pipi_k]

19. Nobody seems to want to learn, either

How to knit, I mean.

I learned at the age of ten, from my grandmother (I'm 58 now)...was just telling someone yesterday that one of the joys of knowing how to do something is sharing it with others...teaching it to someone else.

Sadly, nobody I know wants to learn how to knit. It's like nobody has time anymore...

[txlibdem]

30. My wife just took it up... loves it.

I've been trying over the past 5/10 years to build up my survival skills and/or my contacts network with those who know how to do a thing or two. It might never be needed but ya just never know.

[Warpy]

38. I taught myself out of a book when I was 40

and all my weaving gear was packed and I knew if I didn't find something to do with my hands I was going to throttle my soon to be ex husband and I wasn't rich or pretty enough to get acquitted.

There's a little fad going on with younger women, though, they're all learning how to knit. The crowd at one of the big sites, Ravelry, is a pretty young bunch.

When I learned, it seemed nobody was doing it.

[earth mom]

53. Knitting has had a renaissance the past several years. Great yarns are available now

and on websites like etsy, people are selling gorgeous handmade yarn as well as hand knitted and hand crocheted items.

The new knitting world has a saying; "It's not your grandmothers knitting anymore".

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. I hear Worldwide Pants bought up Kathy Lee Gifford's sweatshops.

Fuck Letterman.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. textiles mfg, has been gone from this country for 10 years or more ...

for some reason we saw no reason to save this industry as opposed to say:

automotive or Wall Street.

[txlibdem]

7. Exactly

Ronny Raygun's brainless minions are still in full anti-union swing.

[CreekDog]

47. i'm in a union

:hi:

try again.

[xultar]

8. Cinderella isn't really about slave labor, it is fiction Just sayin....and it is an AMEX ad

Or commercial not for his show which isn't a documentary

[Dennis Donovan]

9. it's not a promo for his show...

It's an American express commercial.

[bigwillq]

10. Didn't see it

Don't watch Conan. Don't like him.

[Dennis Donovan]

12. leno fan?

[bigwillq]

14. No

Don't like Leno, either. If I watch one of the late nights, I usually watch Letterman.

[Rhiannon12866]

40. Me, too...

:hi:

[terrya]

21. I just don't think he's very funny.

I don't like him, either.

[zeemike]

45. Well I thought it was just me.

But I never thought he was funny.

[spanone]

11. it's for a credit card not his show. and i think it's a great commercial.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

55. Not sure if it's Clio-worthy, but it *is* a good commercial. (n/t)

[LawnLover]

13. Oh for godsakes

It's a commercial. Who fucking cares?

[Initech]

15. Agree 150%.

People have become way too uptight around here over the stupidest things. Sheesh, some people really need to turn off the TV every once in a while. :eyes:

[KharmaTrain]

16. It's A Commercial For American Express

My grandmother was a garment worker...sadly the unions couldn't stand up to the outsourcing of mill jobs in the 80s, but that's not Conan's fault. Now we've seen all the service jobs go. The corporates are screwing their own customer base and now are wondering why sales continue to be so slow.

I'm not in Conan's demo either but enjoy his show and humor, thus I see this commercial in a different light.

The call for union solidarity is long overdue and sadly a reason the number of union workers in this country has fallen to only 10% of the workforce.

[CreekDog]

17. You take that commercial seriously? Holy Crap. Where are your brains?

:wtf:

i anxiously await your next rant about how the doors in public restrooms don't go all the way to the floor. :eyes:

this is the commercial the OP is freaking out about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asQOWSeJi9Y

UNRECOMMENDED!

[marmar]

20. The promos suck......But then again, I've never found Conan funny anyway.

nt

[classof56]

22. Well, I'm not an AMEX fan (it's their commercial)...

but I thought that one was clever, interesting and downright funny. Oh, and I've been watching Conan. Comes on at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. here, so I can actually stay awake, unlike Leno and Letterman. Who I don't watch that much anyway. And--much as I'd love to buy only American, even if I could afford to buy anything much these days, pretty sure most of what's in Goodwill was made in China. Or Thailand. Or Guatemala. Or--oh, well, you get the picture.

I'm sending out positive vibes to Mother Earth, hoping she will forgive us for what we've done to her and that enough of us to make a difference can commit to a brighter future for her and all of us.

Rant over.

Peace

[txlibdem]

23. Naysayers, Nabobs and UnRec'ers

Take it as you like it. I was shocked at the glib, happy happy treatment of the commercial. I'm not in conan's demographic so I'm sure he (and those he targets) don't care about my opinion.

And you better start believing that factories and whole industries having left America is relevant to today. Teachers are crying in their beer and griping as loud as can be today over the "reforms" they're looking at right now. Go over to the education lobby and read for yourself. My question to them on several occasions was: what did you do to protect the jobs of the American textile workers? What did you do to protest Raygun's illegal firing of the air traffic controllers and wiping their union off the face of the earth? Where were all of you when the other unions fell one by one until now only 10% of workers are in a union -- and that includes government workers! Private workers who belong to a union are a dying breed!

Look at the shape of the country today and ask yourself if your job would be sooo much more terrible if you were protected by a union. And I'm not talking about the bend over backwards for management unions like in the airlines, etc., who give everything to management with every new contract and the workers NEVER get a penny of those concessions back. I'm talking about a union with teeth that can and will shut down the business if they don't take the workers needs into consideration.

CEOs used to make 40 times what the average worker did. Now it's more like 400 times. Is this the way it ought to be according to you?

Another point is that the middle class has been slashed to death over the past 30 years and the economy is suffering because the middle class (the goose that lays the golden eggs for this "service economy" they've built for us) is dying or dead in most parts of the country. The economy relies on the middle class but businesses have been moving factories overseas like there's a fire sale going on -- and getting a nice fat TAX BREAK to kill those American jobs. Who'll buy all the cheap crap they want to import from China if NOBODY has a job that pays a decent wage?!?

If you can't think rationally, cannot analyze things critically then you deserve the situation you find yourselves in. If you have no empathy, no sympathy for your fellow Americans who've lost everything they worked their entire lives for then you don't deserve any of the benefits of this country. I hope you have LOTS and LOTS of money saved in your mattress (and not in your 401k)because things aren't going to be coming up roses in your career. Think of me and the millions of others who have been outsourced and downsized when you are standing in line at the soup kitchen! I'll be rolling over in my grave by that time but my face will have a smile that you finally got yours.

I've been outsourced and downsized 3 times in my life and I've always managed to re-invent myself and bounce back but there are those who aren't so lucky. It gets harder to retrain with each passing year. But I've lived a frugal life and I'm doing ok with a nice home in a subdivision and great police protection in these parts. I'm living comfortably with the robot vacuum cleaner, robot lawn mower, nearly new home, nice furniture and whatever else I want to buy. But I don't forget to give a damn about those less fortunate than me. Some of these posts here make me wonder about the rest of you. I'm just glad I'm not like how some of you posters here and elsewhere on DU present yourselves. If that's what you're actually like in person then you're no longer human. If all you give a sh(*t about is YOURSELF and to heck with others, if that's truly your attitude then you make me SICK.

Tell me if I've got you wrong (and if I do then sorry 'bout that) but you seem pretty damn insensitive from what I read so far.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

54. Wow, a robot vacuum cleaner and lawn mower.

You have truly arrived. Both made in the USA, I presume? How about your furniture?

I love these types of manipulative posts...keep going!

[txlibdem]

66. You are making my point, Einstein

I needed the robot vacuum and the robot lawn mower because I am disabled, as if that's any of your business.

My point was that I'm doing ok for myself with savings, investments, real estate holdings, whatever stuff I want or need to buy -- BUT -- I'm not a callous S.O.B. who doesn't give a sh*(t about the suffering of my fellow man.

In the words of a great man, "I feel your pain!"

Jesus H. Christ in Heaven! What happened to the ability to read and comprehend in this god forsaken country of ours!!!!!

[jeffrey_X]

25. IT'S AN AMERICAN EXPRESS COMMERCIAL

It's not a commercial for his show.

[txlibdem]

32. Mea FREAKIN' culpa

I got that part wrong. Are the nitpickers done making a federal case out of that one tiny detail and are now prepared to discuss the social ramifications of all the other words in my post?

[CreekDog]

46. where do they get these people?

:rofl:

[Fuzz]

26. Wow, really?

[AndrewP]

28. I won't watch Conan because I find him incredibly unfunny

This commerical though? Meh....

[Vickers]

31. I heard that all panty-untwister-desanders are now made overseas.

:(

[txlibdem]

34. Nice one. I'm laughing on the inside, I promise...

eom

[blondeatlast]

37. Damn, and I'm right now in the market for one. nt

[txlibdem]

35. Ok. I get it. I see where many of you are coming from.

Perhaps most of you are either comfortably retired or are making a good living at whatever you do so you don't have to give a flying crap about your fellow Americans. That's real nice but I'm so glad YOU are doing ok.

This post was a lame attempt to start at least one or two people thinking about exactly what it means when you buy something made in a foreign country. Maybe to get someone to think about the Americans and their families who used to make bicycles, shirts, watches, wall clocks (went to the Target to buy a wall clock last week... everything made in China SO I BOUGHT NOTHING in the store that day). And the list goes on and on. All those jobs mattered to those people. To their families. To their communities.

It pissed me off to see Conan making light of the pain of thousands of Americans, even if it was 10 years ago. We are all connected. Your destruction is ultimately MY destruction as well.

Tell me DU'ers, why do you think the economy is in the crapper right now? No consumer demand. Why is there no consumer demand? BECAUSE ALL THOSE JOBS that have been moved overseas. At some point we reached the last straw... so the Bushies started telling us to buy on CREDIT. Now there is NO MORE credit for most people. Where did it all go wrong? What happened to our economy?

I say that the textile industry was a tiny gnat on the elephant's arse... but killing that gnat and a million others has hurt us all in the long run.

I apologize if I've hurt you by attempting TO MAKE YOU THINK of anything but the next idol.

[blondeatlast]

41. The problem is that you honestly seem to think we don't know that.

It's also helpful to realize that the burr in your butt may not be in everyone else's. Less condescension and a bit of humor wins you friends here even if they disagree with you.

[CreekDog]

50. i don't buy stuff from China, what do you take me for?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

57. You joined DU in July 2010 and you're lecturing DUers about...

labor and globalization? That's rich. Or, as you said, a "lame attempt."

[Dappleganger]

43. That's just stupid.

India's had textiles since before America was even on the map.

BTW, it's not Conan's fault about NAFTA.

[proteus_lives]

49. I guess some people have to "outraged" about something.

:shrug:

[txlibdem]

56. That commercial may have just touched an especially raw nerve at the time

That's possible. I'm not immune from being manipulated by the tv machine. It's what it is there for: manipulate you into buying this or that, manipulate you into voting for some Darth Sidius character who would just as soon kill you as look at you but the tv box says he/she is "on your side" so you mindlessly go to the polls and pull the requested lever. So I can with clear conscience admit that I am outraged, perhaps more so than is warranted over just a few reams of textiles glibly being shown made overseas, in a clear slap in the face to the tens of thousands of families that were devastated by big business shipping all the textile manufacturing to foreign countries. If I had to say any one part of the thing irked me more, it was that insensitivity and glibness over those American's suffering.

The reverse is also true, however. Some people just don't give a crap about anything or anyone -- unless there's some payola in it for them.

I'd rather be my type of DU'er than yours.

[blondeatlast]

60. Guess what, Wonderful Person? I can RESIST the "tv machine" and it's "manipulation into buying this

or that."

I'm sorry if that is an impossiblility for you; I don't find it the least bit difficult.

[txlibdem]

61. We all have our crosses to bear.

:-o

[JackRiddler]

51. This makes as much sense as complaining about "Starwars" because it's set in outer space instead of

Detroit, and the Death Star isn't being built at an AMERICAN factory!!!!

Either that, or you're doing a piss-job, but it's a touch too subtle.

[taterguy]

52. It's an American Express ad, not a promo for the show

:eyes:

[txlibdem]

62. answered in post 32 ... n/t

[Rincewind]

58. If you watch the commercial really

carefully, you will see that it is not a promo for the Conan show. It's an American Express card commercial.

[txlibdem]

63. answered in post 32 ... n/t

[The Gunslinger]

64. Hell NBC has a comedy show about outsourcing.

Outsourcing jobs ia a real riot...........Until no one con afford the cable bill.

[txlibdem]

67. Agreed. That is exactly my point with this gripe post.

I am frankly sorry I even brought it up.

My faith in humanity has gone down about 40% just by reading the ignorance, preponderance of people living with blinders on, inability to think critically, inability to think between the lines, inability to think of non-obvious connections in what you see or read.

It is sickening and I am now far more glad that I have my commune and my survivalist skills to fall back on because if these are the people that we are all supposed to be able to count on in a crisis... WE ARE F(*KED.

Thank you for at least getting it, being able to use your brain for something more than a hat rack.

[Iggo]

65. -

:rofl: