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Related: About this forumGeorge Carlin would've turned 75 saturday - some of his greatest political observations:
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"Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say on Television" (1972): His more infamous monologue got New York City's Pacifica Radio station and "Democracy Now" flagship WBAI an FCC fine for obscene language. Although WBAI appealed, the Supreme Court upheld the fine in the landmark 1978 case FCC v. Pacifica. Basically in this monologue his whole point was to highlight how absurd it was for those dirty words to be considered dirty in society.
"Abortion" (1996): Takes jabs at the anti-abortion advocates and how conservatives don't support social(ist) programs, including: "If you're pre-born, you're fine; if you're pre-school, you're fucked!"
"Dumb Americans" (2005): George was an Occupier six years before the Occupy movement. Great trashing of the media and big business and ruling class that you'll never know from ABCNNBCBS. (Often this monologue is known around the innertubes as "The American Dream" and alt unofficial titles.)
"Parents of Honor Students" (2002): Not political but still spot on, if you don't like how parents have those "proud parents of honor students" bumper stickers and the whole idea of childhood self-esteem.
Tanelorn
(359 posts)mazzarro
(3,450 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)He is missed.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)sadly he was one of a kind.
90-percent
(6,829 posts)I had a few of these made up:
Proud Parent of a Centerville High School Drug Dealer of the Month
"They Own You" this three minutes should be the anthem of the Occupy Movement. It is the best explanation of our current fascism dilemma. "Be happy with what yah got"
-90% Jimmy
PS - Centerville is the fictional town featured in Frank Zappa's movie "200 Motels"
Paka
(2,760 posts)Carlin is certainly missed in these troubled times.
geefloyd46
(1,939 posts)excellent.
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Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Billions of humans, and only a handful who know what they're doing. I feel exactly like George. It's painful.
jonthebru
(1,034 posts)Carlin's Birthday should be a national education day... All schools in session showing footage of the man's genius!
I'm certain that "the powers that be" will agree.
joanbarnes
(1,722 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)No one else told it like he did. A genius political humorist or whatever you call what he was. He was one of a kind.
Thanks for reminding us! And how true his "The American Dream" still is!!!!!!
greiner3
(5,214 posts)From the third video. This rings so true as in I read an article recently that said the modern corporations are not looking for the brightest and curious applicants anymore. The preenemployment testing is geared so that the people who exhibit these traits are weeded out. They are considered a bad hire for several reasons; they will move on to better jobs and they will try and buck the system. In other words, Corporate America is looking for the dull, the second class sycophants so that upper management will not feel threatened.
Why does America act this way?
Citizen Worker
(1,785 posts)Doc Holliday
(719 posts)George would have had to say about the fact that now, in certain parts of the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, life actually begins before the act of intercourse.