Stuff White People Like #131 - Conan O'Brien
I guess this article, besides being a hell of a lot funnier, really nails the issue down on the Iran election controversy, as my initial article was about eight months too early from the Ahma-tweet-ijad issue. While obviously turning Facebook/Twitter/clothing green to show solidarity with Iran, the "movement" could have just as easily been mistaken for a delayed St. Patrick's Day reaction. While there were small patches of protest in Iranian communities in North America and Europe, they reached nowhere near the capacity of those who showed passive support online, as the majority was evidently at home, according to the article, watching Conan O'Brien.
And while the Coco campaign obviously pales in comparison (no pun intended) to the situation that still today is a major issue in Iran, we see the same thing again. While there are small patches of rallies in some American cities, evidently slapping a black-and-white of Conan into your display picture in some way, through the myriad of internet servers and cable that run across America, tell Jeff Zucker in NBC to go fuck himself. Letters (even emails!) or phone calls be damned - let Facebook lead the way!So once again, to my generation (whatever it is we've decided to call ourselves), kudos to you on continuing to passively protest in this way! What better way to show the man we care by showing we obviously don't care enough to get out of the house! Stand up against oppression/government/NBC? First let's try sitting up!
And for the record, I personally thought Conan was WAY better without Andy Richter, Stuff White People Like. I'd take Joel Godard and his army of Japanese male prostitutes over "Andy'll Try It" any day of the week.
