This is what I was thinking about throughout the whole discussion. Everything else objectionable about Bourdain aside, he does give particularly acute insights.
Bourdain elaborates. He notes, the cameras that the crew are using cost more than the Haitians can earn in a year. The crowd grew so unruly the crew had to beat a hasty exit to protect themselves and their equipment.
Multiply Haiti by a thousand, make that ten thousand and you have Africa invading Europe RIGHT NOW. And of course nothing can be done according to the Bourdains who rule over Europe because to stop it would be....UNSPEAKABLY CRUEL. I hate Bourdain and his ilk. Yes, I know that he personally has no power but his ilk does and is COLLAPSING WESTERN CIVILIZATION in the name of....what? You tell me.
Bourdain describes what's always been wrong with the Lefties and their "good intentions".
It's just polishing their own halos, making them preen in front of that full length mirror they carry with them.
You want to reform a place like Haiti? Be prepared to stay there about 200 years and take over every aspect of life. Pick up The White Man's Burden. The Limeys did it in Inja and it's finally bearing some fruit after a long flirtation with socialism. Remake the institutions. Indoctrinate the kids.
That's how you do it.
I remember reading some opinions of the old Boxer Rebellion movie 55 Days At Peking and how all the little Lefties were aghast at how supportive it was of imperialism. Actually, the Limeys didn't start their empire soon enough. They were only 50 - 100 years in Africa and less in the Middle East. Not enough time.
I stopped liking Bourdain after the querulous Lebanon episode during the Bush years. He was there when Syria started bombing and he was completely useless, whining and fretting about having to stay in his hotel (for safety), bitching about the lack of an immediate evac response from American authorities, raging about Bush (like it was Bush's fault) who was being shown on a loop on CNN eating a bread roll at a banquet where he provided comment on the situation. That seemed to particularly set Bourdain off. The Bush footage. Neither the situation in Lebanon nor the fact that CNN felt it necessary to show the bread roll eating on a continuous loop was Bush's fault. But whatever, Bourdain had a need to rage about something in order to feel tough. Eventually, he was decent to the American military personnel who provided transpo to out of that particular shithole but that didn't make up for an hour of lefty emo meltdown.
I did enjoy a previous episode where he was in Vietnam(?) and his guide was a full-tilt no-bullshit anti-communist. With a machete. That shut his big mouth up.
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Bourdain elaborates. He notes, the cameras that the crew are using cost more than the Haitians can earn in a year. The crowd grew so unruly the crew had to beat a hasty exit to protect themselves and their equipment.
No, dude, you don't renumerate them, you remunerate them, not that that counts.
I always thought it was "renumerate", but I just "pay" people.
Multiply Haiti by a thousand, make that ten thousand and you have Africa invading Europe RIGHT NOW. And of course nothing can be done according to the Bourdains who rule over Europe because to stop it would be....UNSPEAKABLY CRUEL. I hate Bourdain and his ilk. Yes, I know that he personally has no power but his ilk does and is COLLAPSING WESTERN CIVILIZATION in the name of....what? You tell me.
Bourdain describes what's always been wrong with the Lefties and their "good intentions".
It's just polishing their own halos, making them preen in front of that full length mirror they carry with them.
You want to reform a place like Haiti? Be prepared to stay there about 200 years and take over every aspect of life. Pick up The White Man's Burden. The Limeys did it in Inja and it's finally bearing some fruit after a long flirtation with socialism. Remake the institutions. Indoctrinate the kids.
That's how you do it.
I remember reading some opinions of the old Boxer Rebellion movie 55 Days At Peking and how all the little Lefties were aghast at how supportive it was of imperialism. Actually, the Limeys didn't start their empire soon enough. They were only 50 - 100 years in Africa and less in the Middle East. Not enough time.
If only he had the decency to think it through when it's not playing out in front of him - at someone else's expense (as usual).
Some people just do not retain common sense and default to emotions every time.
A thinking person would have seen this result coming a mile away and would not have engaged in this feel-good stunt. What a dolt.
Amartel, He pleads guilty to that.
I stopped liking Bourdain after the querulous Lebanon episode during the Bush years. He was there when Syria started bombing and he was completely useless, whining and fretting about having to stay in his hotel (for safety), bitching about the lack of an immediate evac response from American authorities, raging about Bush (like it was Bush's fault) who was being shown on a loop on CNN eating a bread roll at a banquet where he provided comment on the situation. That seemed to particularly set Bourdain off. The Bush footage. Neither the situation in Lebanon nor the fact that CNN felt it necessary to show the bread roll eating on a continuous loop was Bush's fault. But whatever, Bourdain had a need to rage about something in order to feel tough. Eventually, he was decent to the American military personnel who provided transpo to out of that particular shithole but that didn't make up for an hour of lefty emo meltdown.
I did enjoy a previous episode where he was in Vietnam(?) and his guide was a full-tilt no-bullshit anti-communist. With a machete. That shut his big mouth up.
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