Friday, June 08, 2018
14 comments:
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Skoonj said...
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I used to watch some of Bourdain's programs. Some were quite good as travel-foodie thingies. Unfortunately he let his politics get the better of him, especially in more recent years.
The photo in front of this article shows him with President Obama in a restaurant in Hanoi. Bourdain was already there when Obama walked in. I thought that was interesting because he was to have a dish with pork as the main ingredient. I wondered if Obama was actually going to have pork, perhaps revealing something about his religion. Darned if it wasn't switched to a beef version.
Then there was the Iran episode. The people he rounded up to talk with were exceedingly nice, and with modern, perhaps Western attitudes. Yes, you can find lots of those there. I sure did when I took several USAF trips to Tehran, in the mid to late 1970s. Bourdain's point was that we may be seeing the Iranians from an overly negative light. Trouble is the people he was talking to don't run the country. Those who do run the country are exactly the slime we know, who kill people.
We saw the real Iran when Bourdain's friend, who was a reporter for the Washington Post, and with whom he had conversations and dinner with, was arrested by the the mullah regime soon after Bourdain left Iran. He was held in a prison for months before they finally released him. Yes, Tony, THAT is who runs Iran. -
6/8/18, 12:57 PM
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Murphy(AZ) said...
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To speak poorly of Mr. Bourdain now that he is gone seems unnecessary. One less Liberal to use his talent and position to bad-mouth the U.S. Now that he is gone, let his name not be spoken, and allow his memory to quickly fade.
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6/8/18, 1:03 PM
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JLW III said...
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Never heard of him before this morning.
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6/8/18, 5:23 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Ron in Ohio Sez:
Stopped watching him after he bragged about being high on cocaine, heroin & LSD during his early working year's as a line cook in famous N.Y. SOHO restaurants, That too pissed-off my wife. In a later show episode he went back to work a shift in one of those restaurants and admitted that he couldn't keep up with the restaurant's younger line cooks. That pleased my wife.
But the final straw came when he broke away fro Food Network and then began vilely criticizing their other star chef's, Paula Deen, Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri, Sandra Lee and Rachael Ray. That's when I had enough of the egotistically jealous Bourdain.
So, no, I did not like the man. But, I did not wish him dead as I did not know the man personally and did not really know that he deserved to die. Perhaps,since he committed suicide, he was the only one who knew that he was so deserving. -
6/8/18, 8:24 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Excellent comments ...
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6/8/18, 11:31 PM
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oy vey ole' said...
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He got tired of (Trump) winning and called it a day.
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6/9/18, 11:41 AM
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gadfly said...
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CNN talkers are crying in their beer - but I have never seen nor heard about him before.
"I enjoyed his show, he was quite the character," Trump unconvincingly told the press. -
6/9/18, 1:44 PM
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dubster said...
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Can't help think these celebrities like Bourdain and Kate Spade did not put forth effort to cultivate faith in God and could not see the greater meaning in life. All they needed to do was knock...
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6/9/18, 3:40 PM
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MAX Redline said...
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^dubster - I begrudge no one (for the most part) their beliefs, although I exempt Daesh and other savages in that regard. It does seem to me that these people who killed themselves foundered with poor beliefs and lack of introspection. That said, I believe I'll have a beer.
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6/9/18, 11:26 PM
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Anonymous said...
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What Max said + 1.
poletax
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6/10/18, 3:14 AM
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Anonymous said...
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It just goes to show that (absent being incurably and terminally ill) suicide is a supremely selfish act, particularly so when one is at the center of a commercial enterprise and when one's death terminates the employment of all the workers in that enterprise.
Ann Hedonia & Sam Paku -
6/10/18, 7:13 AM
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0007 said...
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Why was my first thought that somebody was fixin'/threatenin' to publish pictures of him spending time in one too many Thai houses of pleasure - the ones with the very young girls?
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6/10/18, 9:18 AM
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bocopro said...
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https://earloftaint.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/vietnamese-penis-stir-fry.jpg?w=630
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6/10/18, 9:51 AM
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CC said...
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Bore-dain become allegory for the entire muzzie-loving continent.....
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6/10/18, 11:00 AM
