Nice Speech. Where's the funny? Anger is one of the best catalysts for comedy, but if you leave it in its raw form, without getting the funny out of it, you just sound like an eloquent, angry old guy. Carlin was great back in the day, before he was HBO-ized.

Of course, he thought he was talking about Bush, Reagan, and the Republicans. I'm not sure he would have been so caustic about the Democrats and Obama.

George was about half right, which is as close as he ever got. Conservatives squeal in delight when the people they expect to be all wrong get it half right.

When this country was evolving through the process of rich pricks competing against each other--ambition against ambition, in defect of better motives--it was in better hands. Now it is in the hands of what Madison and Hamilton called Visionary and Utopian philosophers, which was intended as a slur. It's a long way down.

Given that ALL the powers that Carlin rails against have lined up against the TEA parties you'd think he might have recognized his own cognitive dissonance if given a little more time.

I just don’t see how Carlin’s rant is against either party, or why what he says isn’t true. Let’s say he was flinging arrows against Reagan/Bush 41, does that somehow make what he says incorrect for what is going on today?

He plainly spells it out - “Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you…” That’s not exactly being partisan.

And how has “The Wealthy… the REAL owners!” as Carlin says “lined up against the TEA parties”? That one just is confusing.

And how is only “half right”? I don’t see how such a theory could be only half right. Disagree with his position, sure, but saying it’s half right, while not explaining how, is
another comment that leaves me baffled.

What’s half right about- “By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice.” Does that mean they kind’a sort’a only half the time tell us what to believe?

Does the education system in this country suck or not? That’s in debate? How is that half right?

I tell what I think, the above comments, to me, make George’s point stick even harder against the wall. To look at and think about even more and realize he was dead freakin’ on.

@tim

getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.

I don't think he was talking about Carter, or that it started 30 years ago. I agree with what he is saying about the political class, but I think he is also politically prejudiced. It would be nice to know who "he" was that wasn't seen through, there is a bit of lead up missing from that video.

It is funny, Carlin makes fun of liberals also, our host has posted those videos as well. When he makes fun of liberals all the conservatives laugh and say how smart he is, that he must be conservative, that is a unique in entertainment and Hollywood. Conservatives love him.
When he makes fun of conservatives the conservatives do a 180° turn and call him a typical liberal commie, etc etc. He makes fun of both.

It is amazing how you people don't get it even when it is in front of your face.

Grumpy court jester.

"CONELRAD" was the funniest joke he ever made.

Potsie, Carlin spent a lot more time in his career making fun of conservatives than he did of liberals.

Carlin says a lot of things that are true, but he's not aging well with me. "They call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it," says the guy who actually lived the dream. His solution: Join George Carlin in sitting back and sneering.

"They call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it,"

I'll be sure to remind all of the immigrants, both legal and illegal, who risk life and fortune to get here about that.

I'll be sure to remind my ancestors on my father's side who came through Ellis Island and built a good life from scratch.

I'll be sure to remind Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, the douche-bag who owns Facebook,and every other mega-millionaire who made it themselves (except in Obama's eyes).

Carlin started out funny, I don't know what happened, but he lost it along the way. In my opinion anyway.