[BigLittle]

I sell 250,000 tickets a year.

I did a quick check on ticket prices.....rough average by my estimation (prices listed at venues, not brokers)$ 160.00 per ticket........multiply by 250,000....= a cool forty million in ticket sales....no wonder he hates american business.

[BraveMan]

. . . this experiment, this magnificent experiment in democracy is just being shredded to pieces by these right-wing Christians, the Ashcroft branch of Republicanism. (They're) just shredding the rest of the Bill of Rights which hadn't been shredded already.

Still corked off over being thrown in the slammer in Milwaukee in 1972, eh George?

[packrat35]

Carlin hasn't been funny in over 20 years.

[Porterville]

What a typical liberal.

[07055]

Everybody's got more jet skis and Dustbusters now and sneakers with lights in them. They've got more cheese on their thing that they buy. They get double helpings. See, Americans measure all their progress in the wrong way. They measure by quantity and by gizmos and toys. And not by quality and by things that are important.

Ah, let's see George, since you gross $40 million a year from your concerts alone, I guess by the *important things* you mean Rolls Royces, private planes, and Malibu mansions. Sorry to hear that my finances don't allow me to value the things that you do.

[Texas_Jarhead]

When I was young, uniformed, and immature I though Carlin was a riot. Now he's just a whinny little leftwing jackass who is infrequently funny.

[wimpycat]

Answer: Uh, quality. It's a fact. I'm one of the best ones out there. I sell 250,000 tickets a year. There aren't many comedians in my age group that do that. Cosby probably does that ... I'm kind of singular now. I mean, I'm not being boastful or conceited. I'm being an accurate reporter of the facts. I'm pretty good at this. The reason it's lasted so long is I continue to grow and turn out new material.

This, from the liberal, anti-business, captain of the stand-up comic industry (read: businessman).

[gcruse]

this magnificent experiment in democracy is just being shredded to pieces by these right-wing Christians, the Ashcroft branch of Republicanism. (They're) just shredding the rest of the Bill of Rights which hadn't been shredded already.

There's not much left to shred, but every administration does its part, with the assistance of Congress, of course.  I don't understand why a person couldn't take the government to court and charge them with violating the Tenth Amendment.  But the fact that crazy people like Judicial Watch aren't doing it, tells me it can't even be done anymore.

The peaceful revolution of the ballot box simply exchanges between social conservatives/fiscal liberals and social liberals/fiscal liberals.  The only man of honor in Washington DC is Ron Paul.

[DouglasKC]

A: Everybody's got more jet skis and Dustbusters now and sneakers with lights in them. They've got more cheese on their thing that they buy. They get double helpings. See, Americans measure all their progress in the wrong way. They measure by quantity and by gizmos and toys. And not by quality and by things that are important.

What do you want to bet that George has more "stuff" then most anyone else in the world will have in their lifetime.

[Moonman62]

A: No. First of all, I'm not liberal. I'm just about (being) anti-United States. I don't like the way this country operates. I think we've ruined this place. And I think it's largely because of businessmen. And businessmen are not liberals. So if that makes me a liberal, then that's just an association. It's not a choice. ...

Let's see: Ted Turner, Larry Ellison, and Michael Eisner just for starters.

[AmishDude]

I don't know . . . I just find any bald guy in his sixties with no Ph. D. who spends his time hanging around college campuses a little creepy.

[Akira]

Ahhh yes, 180 years ago...the good old days. Since then, with the ending of slavery, the invention of damn near every technology good old George uses today, the conquering of Communism and Nazism, the cures of so many diseases, yada yada yada, the country is in the crapper. We did give the world Michael Jackson, but everybody is allowed a slip up every now and then.

I realize that it's probably the death of Communism that really irks the man.

[new cruelty]

No. First of all, I'm not liberal. I'm just about (being) anti-United States. I don't like the way this country operates. I think we've ruined this place. And I think it's largely because of businessmen. And businessmen are not liberals.

I sell 250,000 tickets a year. There aren't many comedians in my age group that do that...

HAH. Thanks for the laugh george.

[VRWCmember]

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.