'Liberal' is a dirty word for George Carlin

No other comedian consistently tweaks as many nerves, churns as many stomachs and terrorizes as many conservatives as George Carlin.

"The more resistance and discomfort I can feel from the audience, the better I feel," Carlin explains contentedly in a phone interview. "The happier I am."

A few observations:

Carlin doesn't terrorize conservatives. Most of us probably think of him as more of a nuisance than anything else. Nobody takes him seriously.
He's about being anti-United States, but I don't see him giving back the money he makes off of Americans buying tapes and CDs of his mental excretions. I don't see him moving to some other country (perhaps he would like France or Germany or Canada better).
He thinks the country has been mishandled for the last 180 years or so? Sounds like he's longing for a return to the era of slavery. While the return of the tenth amendment and a shift of more autonomy to the respective states and less federal intrusion is a very good idea (though probably not what he intends to advocate), for the most part the country is better off than it was in the 1820's.
He expressed his hatred of John Ashcroft and evangelical Christianity and blames them for America's woes, but fails to make a case for how they have "shattered" the beauty of this country or "shredded the Bill of Rights". Perhaps he has them confused with the post-Roosevelt era Supreme Court and its systematic replacement of the Constitution with judicial fiat.
Finally, Carlin thinks that people "have the most right to have" things like "health, food, shelter and a job" and our awful American culture places these "last on the list". Well, isn't that special. Perhaps he's not as familiar with the "institutional beauty" of "this magnificent experiment in democracy" as he thinks. The Declaration of Independence asserts that "all men ... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." How careless of Thomas Jefferson to neglect to include "health, food, shelter and a job" among the unalienable rights which the founding fathers of our country pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. I'm so glad we have George Carlin to remind us shallow Americans of what things are really important.

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