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30.1.2006

Conan: Sauli Niiinistö is like Joseph Stalin

Tags: Uncategorized — Author: Phil @ 10:34 pm

More from Conan, download it here…

http://users.tkk.fi/~ssaarima/c/conan20060127_finlandhistory.avi

Hat Tip to Jarno for the link!

53 Comments »

  1. hahaa!! yes! exciting stuff :)

    Comment by michael — Mon, Jan 30th, 2006 @ 11:13 pm

  2. Who is that right-middle guy in the… ahem, “eccentric leaders”-group?

    Comment by A Finn — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 12:05 am

  3. Khan, the one with the wrath of star trek.

    Comment by Hank W. — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 12:28 am

  4. Ahahahah Khan and Skeletor!!!

    Who is that right-middle guy in the… ahem, “eccentric leaders”-group?

    I’m gonna go off on a limb and say Vlad Drac. Just a guess though.

    Comment by Anonymous — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 2:15 am

  5. Shit, forgot my name in #4.

    Comment by gopha — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 2:19 am

  6. Attila the Hun!

    Comment by Faaip de Oiad — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 7:30 am

  7. Is it supposed to be funny?

    Comment by Anonymous — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 8:16 am

  8. Finlandforthought flashed on CNN this morning as source of some ‘thin-skinned Finns’ ‘ comments on Conan’s Finnish pronunciation!

    Comment by Jeff — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 8:30 am

  9. CNN International I mean. Light coverage of the Conan&Tarja running gag, but serious speculation that it influenced youth to vote for T.

    Comment by Jeff — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 8:32 am

  10. Am I being too sensitive in being more and more uneasy about this O’Brien prick. Maybe the Stalin/Niinistö “link” just got it.

    Mind you, CNN is a fine one to talk. When I watch it (in hotels) I think they should teach some of the Americans how to speak American, let alone English :)

    Comment by Paper — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 8:34 am

  11. Finlandforthought flashed on CNN this morning as source of some ‘thin-skinned Finns’ ‘ comments on Conan’s Finnish pronunciation!

    Huh?

    Comment by Phil — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 8:38 am

  12. I LOVE CONAN!!!! I can’t decide which I like better: him or Craig Kilborn. The Craiggers was pretty funny, too. Hmmmm … decisions, decisions, decisions ….

    Comment by Stolie — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 8:41 am

  13. Phil, check your email… FFT was flashed for 6-7secs as source for the line ‘Some thin-skinned Finns have complained on websites that Conan has misspronounced their president’s name’, with a scan of FFT from the banner down, and highlighting a comment (by whom?) that ‘…likened his Finnish to a rabbit in distress’.

    Comment by Jeff — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 9:37 am

  14. I’m in the “not funny” crowd. Of course, bashing liberal politicians and comparing them to Stalin or Hitler is commonplace in the US nowadays.

    Comment by Harja Talonen — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 9:44 am

  15. everybody deserves “15 min of fame” in their lives and this is definitely Findland’s prime time! I mean being talked about on one of the biggest TV shows broadcasted all over the world. It’s gonna affect this country in certain way, believe or not. Atleast it shoulda boost the tourism, folks will say ‘hey, lets go to Finland, it’s been on Conan’s show, it must be a fun place’. Nokia is probably increasing a stock of its cell phones already in anticipation of bigger sales. Finland surely is gettin’ a freebie in advertisement, thanks to Conan :-)

    Comment by conan — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 11:25 am

  16. I’m in the “whiners are thin-skinned” crowd. Harja Talonen: You’ll notice that the actual politics of the Finnish presidential candidates have never once been mentioned on the show. Your accusations of liberal-bashing are pure invention on your part. Freedom of speech cuts both ways, and this is what happens when you’re on the world stage.

    Comment by Anonymous — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 11:45 am

  17. Phil, live on CNN - you need to get a screencapture :lol: Your folks back home won’t know how famous you are… now you can be: “As seen on CNN” :lol:

    To CNN: Conan O’Brian’s pronunciation of “Lady Tarzan”, or the other Finnish, except ‘joo’ makes my ears bleed. On the other hand, I think you need to wear earplugs when Tarja Halonen (or any Finnish politician) mutilates English. ;)

    Comment by Hank W. — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 11:57 am

  18. “Halonen was hugely popular even before O’Brien discovered their similarities, but Jaaskelainen said hits on the campaign Web site have quintupled partly because of O’Brien’s shows.”

    read on…
    http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/16/finland.election.ap/index.html

    Comment by conan — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 12:25 pm

  19. Damn, I’d love to see that clip of CNN showing my blog. Anyone who can get that me, I’d reeeeeeeeeeeeeally appreciate it!!!

    Comment by Phil — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 1:00 pm

  20. Phil, just stay tuned to CNN, they repeat stuff all over and over again, you’ll catch it!

    Comment by conan — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 1:03 pm

  21. Phil, just stay tuned to CNN, they repeat stuff all over and over again, you’ll catch it!

    I don’t have CNN. :-( And according to their website, I can order their online service in Finland.

    Comment by Phil — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 1:55 pm

  22. With luck, he’ll read about the troubles in Denmark (and Norway) and cancel his visit like a good wimpish Yank tourist. Then again, seeing him strung up by a posse of militant Islamists and lamprey fishermen might have a certain popular appeal.

    Seriously, though, we shouldn’t kvetch about this idiot’s lampooning of Finland. As Finnpundit so cogently points out at every available opportunity, Finland is an evil little anti-American boil on the European derrière and this is simple payback - only one rather dim section of the population thinks it’s flattery.

    Comment by Anne Onimus — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 2:05 pm

  23. Hey y’all!
    The CNN video is on the cnn webpage. Link is on the right on the mainpage at cnn.com

    Comment by Tirlittan — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 2:06 pm

  24. LOL…that video on CNN is hilarious. :) Hey, his Finnish is bad but it’s good in a way that it might make the rest of us who mangle it a bit less look good. :)

    Comment by hfb — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 2:33 pm

  25. Phil, I just watched that CNN clip, there is a link to it on in the middle pf cnn.com under this title SEPARATED AT BIRTH? just right next to the green tab ‘video’ it’s in stream format I couldn’t get a screenshot but your blog is shown there, hurry up!

    Comment by conan — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 2:36 pm

  26. It’s under the Jeanne Moos section. Finland For Thought starts at about 47 seconds in. Very cool, Phil!

    Comment by Väinämöinen — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 2:56 pm

  27. Try that:

    mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/moos/2006/01/31/moos.conan.the.immitator.affl.ws.wmv

    Comment by JP — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 2:58 pm

  28. CONAN, LEAVE US ALONE!

    Comment by matti — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 3:04 pm

  29. I hope this dick gets egged out of the country. Or a good kickin from some traditional finnish skins! Take that back to the States.

    Lets see how many wannabees swarm over him when he’s here!!

    Finland is the butt-hole of beyond, welcome me!! Your now the joke of the whole US and every other country this dick airs in… yeah Poor as fuck, and lots of nothing, eating shit and wearing clothes the rest of the world gives to Oxfam.

    In LA you see this this sort of think all the time. Wanna-bees, but this is Finland wanting to be a real country! Fuck that!

    Comment by D — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 3:51 pm

  30. If you don’t like it here then why not go back to were you came from D?

    Comment by david — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 3:54 pm

  31. Well, doesn’t start from CNN any more and I can’t get the mms. to work. Anyone have it in some format that… like… works…

    Comment by Hank W. — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 4:03 pm

  32. JP, I tried your link, error comes up “file not found” :-(
    mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/moos/2006/01/31/moos.conan.the.immitator

    Comment by conan — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 4:06 pm

  33. Ok, nevermind, :lol: you need to go to videos, section.

    :lol: screencap is a must :lol:

    Comment by Hank W. — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 4:10 pm

  34. I have the CNN clip on vhs… at least can copy for u, Phil.

    Comment by Jeff — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 4:18 pm

  35. Thanks everyone for hunting this down and letting me know!!

    Comment by Phil — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 4:41 pm

  36. conan: Are you sure you tried to connect to the right address? The URL you pasted isn’t complete.

    It’s also possible you need to go to the video window on CNN’s site before you can view it because it seemed to send my host mask to the window. Oh well…

    I captured the video stream and uploaded it for those who can’t connect to it or want to download it. I’m not sure if it is complete though because the bytesize of the file is a bit smaller than what it was supposed to. So it might be missing a few seconds from the end.

    http://rapidshare.de/files/12239443/conan_cnn.wmv.html

    Comment by JP — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 6:02 pm

  37. The same people who complained about the pronounciation of Conan are prolly the same people who can speak english like our rally drivers. In other words, they should stfu.

    Comment by Frustrated Finn — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 6:33 pm

  38. Dear D,

    You need to go quite far from Finland in order to see well dressed people, to say, at least to France, preferably to Italy.

    Comment by Oxfam clothes — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 7:59 pm

  39. JP, thanks a bunch! I got the clip now. I recall the earliest Conan’s shows like back in 93,94 it was OK, but it’s obvious that this guy has found his act and developed over the years and now he simply is one of the best!

    Comment by conan — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 8:02 pm

  40. “You need to go quite far from Finland in order to see well dressed people, to say, at least to France, preferably to Italy.”

    Noo, It is just finest manifestation of Karl Marx’s idea: Dictatorship of the lumpenproletariat and triumph of the substance over form.

    Besides, ‘rumat ne vaatteilla koreilee’, or ‘ugly people show off in fine clothes’ as we strict, modest protestants think. :-p

    Comment by Antti (the redneck one) — Tue, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 10:50 pm

  41. Protestantism indeed has a lot going for it.

    Comment by Söderberg — Wed, Feb 1st, 2006 @ 1:36 am

  42. Can we already go push Turku to sea? That had to be the most embarrassing finnish moment in history of television.

    Comment by brlpbrlp — Wed, Feb 1st, 2006 @ 9:55 pm

  43. Can we already go push Turku to sea? That had to be the most embarrassing finnish moment in history of television.

    We must understand that Turku is not really a part of Finland but a country in its own right.

    Comment by Freeridin' Franklin — Thu, Feb 2nd, 2006 @ 12:22 am

  44. The link is dead! Have somebody this clip on computer? Could you put the clip on the rapidshare?!

    Comment by tarza — Thu, Feb 2nd, 2006 @ 1:37 pm

  45. Link is dead. could anybody send that on email!?

    Comment by jasse — Thu, Feb 2nd, 2006 @ 2:17 pm

  46. That link is not working, would somebody fix it?

    Comment by coneyfan — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 6:02 pm

  47. Could someone fix the link?

    Comment by Anonymous — Sun, Feb 5th, 2006 @ 6:26 am

  48. Jeah, that link is not working! Please, someone could fix it.

    Comment by nmk — Mon, Feb 6th, 2006 @ 12:06 am

  49. Please fix the link.

    Comment by Anonymous — Mon, Feb 6th, 2006 @ 3:37 pm

  50. yup. we need a new link

    Comment by jj — Mon, Feb 13th, 2006 @ 11:32 am

  51. Lindsay from Phoenix here. I would like to get the feed for your blog via
    email. Is this possible?

    Comment by Steroids — Tue, Feb 14th, 2006 @ 6:52 pm

  52. Laura from Orlando here. Is it possible to subscribe to this blogs rss?

    Comment by New Invention — Mon, Feb 20th, 2006 @ 4:37 pm

  53. Please fix the link

    Comment by Dustin — Tue, Feb 21st, 2006 @ 2:39 am

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