Rhetorical Analysis Of Conan O Brien - 1235 Words

For the last 20 years, literally my entire adult life, I ve been a diehard fan of late night talk show host Conan O Brien. Not only did I watch the various iterations of his show throughout the years from Late Night, The Tonight Show, to CONAN religiously for most of that time, but I ve ventured across the country to see him live several times. In fact, just last year, I achieved one of my goals of personally meeting Conan and getting a picture with him. It happened after attending one of his tapings during a week of shows at the Apollo Theatre in New York City. I ve admired Conan for his humor, intelligence, and inspiring words of wisdom he s given over the years (his commencement speeches at Harvard and Dartmouth are indicative of†¦show more content†¦Israeli appropriation of Arab food is nothing new. Things got a whole lot worse from there. A couple of days later, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted a short video of him hosting Conan in Jerusalem. There are no words to describe the disappointment I felt when I saw that. It was bad enough Conan went to Israel and violated the BDS call, but to take company with a man who imposes an apartheid regime on Palestinians and who should be tried for war crimes was simply inexcusable. The day after, Conan made a token visit to Bethlehem and spent time with children from the Aida Refugee Camp. Commendable, but ironic given that he had just been the guest of Netanyahu who d prefer to have Palestinians stay in refugee camps and live without equal rights as Jewish Israelis. To add salt to the wound, Conan later met with female soldiers from the Karkl Battalion in the Israeli army (IDF). My jaw dropped. He was straight up participating in Israeli propaganda and the IDF was more than happy to tweet about it. I couldn t believe it. As Benjamin Norton tweeted in reply to the IDF s tweet, Conan O Brien doing PR with an army that kills Palestinians and illegally occupies and colonizes their land. Indeed, hanging out with soldiers who enforce apartheid and carry out assaults on an oppressed civilization population is reprehensible. Conan shouldn t have met and dined with Netanyahu nor cavorted