Everybody’s at the mall, scratchin’ his ass, pickin’ his nose, takin’ his credit card out of his fanny pack and buyin’ a pair of sneakers with lights in them. We don’t have people like that in this country. Yeah, the public sucks! That’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: “The public sucks! Fuck hope! Fuck hope!”īecause if it is really just the fault of the politicians then where are all the other bright people of conscience? Where are all the bright, honest, intelligent Americans ready to step in and save the nation and lead the way? So, maybe…maybe…maybe it’s not the politicians who suck. You’re just gunna wind up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. And term limits ain’t gunna do ya any good. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens…if you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re gunna get selfish, ignorant leaders. They come from American parents, American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, American universities, and they’re elected by American citizens. They don’t pass through a membrane from some other reality. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky.
“Now there’s one thing you mighta noticed I don’t complain about: politicians.Įverybody complains about politicians. Video Transcript – In Defense of Politicians (George Carlin, 1996) Add in a bit of effective protest and it might even turn a bit faster.) (Yes, I know, the USS America is a humongous, gargantuan behemoth, and the rudder very, very, very small, but we can still make it sloooowly turn to a certain general heading if we all pile our votes in the wheelhouse. Your vote is what determines the direction this Great Ship America will turn. Local elections, special elections, and mid-terms, especially. Personally, I think we still need to hoist our fannies perpendicular and hike ourselves to the ballet box for all elections. Apparently, his last ballot was cast in 1972–for McGovern. The only part I would take with a block of salt is the last in which he explains why he doesn’t vote. He pretty much smashed the nail squarely on the head. Given the nature of our current Administration, I thought it timely to revisit what George said years ago ( Back In Town HBO Special, 1996) about American politicians and the American people who elect them. I don’t always agree with everything he says, but I always listen…
The late George Carlin was a genius with words, a deft dasher of conventional logic, and a master observer (and master-baiter!) of American cultural paradoxes. London’s Heathrow Airport, NovemThe Great George Carlin As far as I’m concerned, all of this airport security, all the searches, the screenings, the cameras, the questions, it’s just one more way of reducing your liberty, and reminding you that they can f*ck with you anytime they want… as long as you put up with it… as long as you put up with it which means of course anytime they want, cause that’s what Americans do now, they’re always willing to trade away a little of their freedom in exchange for the feeling, the illusion of security.Vodafone Ad. And they certainly don’t recognize a good show when they see one! I have always been willing to put myself at great personal risk for the sake of entertainment and I’ve always been willing to put you at great personal risk for the same reason.
Yeah… but I also know that most Americans are soft and frightened and unimaginative and they don’t realize there’s such a thing as dangerous fun. I think the very idea that you could set off a bomb in a marketplace and kill several hundred people is exciting and stimulating and I see it as a form of entertainment! Entertainment… that’s all it is.
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