So, being bitter and pathetic is grounds for eternal damnation now, huh? Your little cult has some very funny rules. Perhaps Carlin asked master-carpenter Jeebus for forgiveness right before his passing? Isn’t that your secret “get out of hell forever” move? Silly Hypo-Christians.

I never enjoyed his bitter old leftist phase and haven’t seen his routine in 20 years. But his routines on words and language were always good.

One place Carlin will be immortalized for conservatives is in the introduction to “Liberal Fascism,” by Jonah Goldberg. JG recounts a conversation between Carlin and Bill Maher in which they are talking about fascism and incorrectly assigning it as a right wing movement. But Carlin also talked about how when fascism comes to America it won’t be with storm troopers, but it will have a “smiley face” on it. Thus the inspiration for the cover of Liberal Fascism.

That was published in late February, while St. Barack was in the process of blowing out Hillary in caucus after caucus. Too bad we won’t get to see Carlin’s reaction in November when, in all likelihood, America does indeed “allow that s–t.”

Clearly you underestimate the Clintons. Just sayin’.

BWAAA-HAAAAAA-HAAAAAAH!

The joke’s on him.

BDS kills.

I don’t wish him “ill”, nor am I dancing on his grave; I don’t wish that for any human being, espcially a fellow “American”, but I won’t deify him either.

I new he was obviously a “Lefty”, but in a paternalistic type of way, I viewed him as a lecherous stuck in the 60′s Marxist who had seen his time, and basically ignored him.

Then, twice in a period of a month about 2 years ago, I saw two things, that completely and utterly turned me against him, forever:

a) on the abysmal Bill Mahr show on HBO, his typical Lefty comments about President Bush, applauded wildly by the sheep-like automatons that pass as the slavish audience on that show, were beyond the pale. In fact, he said he refused to call Bush “President”, and instead, referred to him as “Govenor”, because he said that was the last time Bush “won” an election, and that he had been “Appointed” to office by the Supreme Court

b) I turned on HBO late one weekend-night, and he was ranting about the US Military in Iraq. He said that the 4 Blackwater Contractor who were murdered and had their bodies so hideiously descecrated, “deserved” what they got, for just being in Iraq.

He later equated all US Military personnel to war criminals, and said the US Military was no different that the people they were fighting, and that they deliberately targeted Hospitals, civilians, and killed children.

Later on, he said any Military member who was in Iraq, who got captured, and was “beheaded”, “deserved” it; just for being over there; to wild applause from the audience of courses.

But don’t take my word for it; I’m sure, somewhere the clips are on YouTube.

I listened to all that purpose, because I wanted to feel Rage against him, and the treasonous, traitorous, Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi Left that the Democrats have become in this country.

George Carlin, was at the fore of that movement. For a High School dropout, who was dishonorably discharged from the US Miltary as well, and who got lucky in his career in terms of breaks, he sure hated “America”; with endless humorless rants these past years about “Red State”/”WalMart” America, those FAT, disgusting, Bible-thumping idiots who shop at WalMart and worship God, and all that crazy stuff.

He had another absolutely insane monologue about “Death”, that wasn’t even funny, something about the whole country on fire, and of course it works its way up thru Washington DC so that it can take out Bush, etc.

30 years ago, he was funny.

Since 9/11, he’s been vehemently Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi; a bitter, hate-filled, husk of a man, who despised himself, and manifested it as hate for his country and fellow citizens.

He died, fine; I sympathies to his family, I didn’t wish it on him, nor will I celebrate, but having seen his hate towards his own country over the past 4 – 5 years, excuse me if I don’t shed a tear, either.

Spoken like a true, tolerant (cough cough) Christian.

Well done.

useless trivia fact for you..

He was the first guest host of Saturday Night Live…

Yeah, and he did the ‘isn’t military intelligence an oxymoron’ and everyone laughed. ‘Look at me, I can swear!’

I won’t miss him.

He was the first guest host of Saturday Night Live…

71.. good genes.. considering all of the abuse of ‘toxins’ he did in the past..

My condolences to his family and friends.

And if Carlin was a lefty troofer — I wouldn’t know if he was, or if it was part of his shtick — he didn’t spend the entire duration of his shows jamming it down the audiences’ throats.

yeah, well…except that he DID do that, quite often and with evident glee, although not as you correctly point out with entire shows. Edgy comedy is one thing. Hatred and contempt disguised as satire is another. In his later life, Carlin crossed that line again and again and again in his HBO shows and other televised routines. He just did. That doesnt make his earlier works any less vaulable and funny but theres no doubt that post-Bush 43 and after 9/11 he used big chunks of his shows to go after Bush and Repubs hammer and tong with gratuitously unfunny personal attacks that had nothing to do with comedy.

In the end though, other HA commenters here are correct: Carlin was an entertainer and nothing more. He was not a deep thinking social critic who will be remembered 100 years from now. So, too much gnashing of teeth over this guy or what he said or stood for is not such a useful excercise, imho. But gloating over or celebrating his death is pretty classless. He was once a very funny guy and now he’s playing two shows a night at the Eternity Lounge.

DanKenton on June 23, 2008 at 4:23 PM

I’ve never heard anyone who worked with him say he was anything but a sweetheart on a personal level.
Right on DK

It was time for him to die, huh? You know, I was about to respond to you by stating that only a classless scumbag with the heart of dogshit would say anything remotely similar to your rant. That was before I saw your name and realized that you apparently are a lawyer from Hawaii which, by designation, would have rendered my comments simply a regurgitation of the obvious.

I’m sorry he died, I hope he found the Lord and some peace at the end. But don’t consider him a great.