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Humorist George Carlin wrote a piece about being a "Bad American."? [snopes.com]
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/carlin.htm ^ | June 11, 2002 | snopes.com

Posted on 06/29/2002 6:49:49 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad

Claim:   Humorist George Carlin wrote a piece about being a "Bad American."

Status:   False.

Example:   [Collected on the Internet, 2001]


Yes, I Guess I am A BAD American.

I like big cars, big boats, big houses, and naturally - big tits.

I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some mid-level governmental functionary with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts squirting out babies. I don't care about appearing compassionate.

I think playing with toy guns doesn't make you a killer.

I believe it's called the Boy Scouts for a reason.

I think I'm doing better than the homeless.

I don't think being a minority makes you noble or victimized.

I have the right not to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird or piss me off.

I know what SEX is and there are not varying degrees of it. Hell, just ask my wife.

I don't celebrate Kwanzaa. But if you want to that's fine; just don't feel like everyone else should have to.

I believe that if you are selling me a Dairy queen shake, pack of cigarettes, or hotel room you do it in English.

As of matter of fact, if you are an American citizen you should speak English. My father and grandfather shouldn't have to die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come disrespect ours.

I think the cops have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you're running from them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word freeze or stop in English, See the previous line.

If I received a blow job from one of my subordinate employees in my office, it wouldn't be a private matter or my personal business. I would have been FIRED immediately.

I know how to count votes and I feel much safer letting a machine with no political affiliation recount when needed.

I know what the definition of lying is.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you qualify for any special loan programs, gov't sponsored bank loans, etc., so you can you can open a hotel, c-store, trinket shop, or any damn thing else.

I thought the Taco Bell dog was funny.

I want them to bring back safe and sane fireworks.

I believe no one ever died because of something Ozzy Osbourne, Ice-T or Marilyn Manson sang, but that doesn't mean I want to listen to that crap from someone else's car when I'm stopped at a red light.But I respect your right to.

I think that being a student doesn't give you any more enlightenment than working at Blockbuster or Jack In The Box.

I don't want to eat or drink anything with the words light, Lite, or fat-free on the package.

I did not go to some foreign country and risk my life in vain and defend our constitution so that decades later you can tell me it's a living document ever changing and is open to interpretation.

I don't hate the rich.

I don't pity the poor.

I know wrestling is fake.

I've never owned or was a slave, and a large percentage or our forefathers weren't wealthy enough to own one either.

I think you can respect and admire women while mentally undressing them.

I believe a self-righteous liberal with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.

I want to know which church is it exactly where the "Rev." Jesse Jackson preaches; and besides what exactly is his job function.

I don't care where Ellen puts her tongue.

I own a gun, you can own a gun, and any red blooded American should be allowed to own a gun, but if you use it in a crime then you will serve the time. A rubber band and a paper clip is a dangerous weapon in the hands of someone with malicious intent.

I worry about dying before I get even.

I didn't take the initiative in inventing the Internet.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it pisses you off, invent the next operating system that's better and put your name on the building. Ask your buddy that invented the Internet to help you.

I don't believe in hate crime legislation. Even suggesting it pisses me off. You're telling me that someone who is a minority, gay, disabled, another nationality, or otherwise different from the mainstream of this country has more value as a human being that I do as a white male. Hell, if someone kills anyone, I'd say that it's a hate crime.

I like the convenience of buying oranges from a sidewalk vendor or while I'm waiting at a stop-light, and I'm pretty sure the Latin midget selling them to me is glad she no longer lives in a refrigerator box in East LA or is sleeping in the streets of her home country.

We don't need more laws! Let's enforce the ones we already have.

I think turkey bacon, turkey beef, turkey fake anything sucks.

I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes a parent with the balls to stand up to the kid and spank his butt and say "NO".

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement.

I'll admit that the only movie that ever made me cry was Ole Yeller.

I didn't realize Dr. Seuss was a genius until I had a kid.

I will not be frowned upon or be looked down upon or be made to keep silent because I have these beliefs and opinions.

I thought this country allowed me that right I will not conform or compromise just to keep from hurting somebody's feelings.

I'm neither angry nor disenfranchised, no matter how desperately the mainstream media would like the world to believe otherwise.

Yes, I guess by their definition, I'm a bad American.

Origins:   Just about any unsourced list of witty observations about our politics and social mores gets credited to humorist George Carlin these days, even when it doesn't really sound like anything he would write. Carlin may sometimes use the format of stringing together a few dozen pithy comments about a wide variety of topical subjects, but the tone of his humor is nothing like this reactionary piece. If any doubt remained, Carlin himself swept it away by announcing on his web site that he is not the author of the article.

If not Carlin, then who did write it? This piece has also been credited to a number of decidedly conservative, outspoken media figures, such as rock star Ted Nugent, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, and actor-comedian Denis Leary, but the even if the article may seem to echo the political opinions of these men, it doesn't quite match any of them, nor does the language used sound quite right for any of these figures. (Leary, like Carlin, has been credited with creating some other Internet favorites, such as a vituperative discourse on e-mail chain letters and the "Are You Man Enough?" essay.

This essay appeared in the FreeRepublic.com on-line forum back in September 2000 under the title "I Am a Bad Republican" (picking up title changes and additions since then as it was forwarded around the Internet), and the person who posted it there has taken credit for it in a recent message in that same forum.

Last updated:   11 June 2001



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1 posted on 06/29/2002 6:49:50 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: bootyist-monk
BTTT
2 posted on 06/29/2002 6:50:40 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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"Reactionary piece?!" snopes is off my Christmas card list.
3 posted on 06/29/2002 6:56:02 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
Good post.
4 posted on 06/29/2002 7:01:06 PM PDT by Khepera
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To: Cultural Jihad
I thought the Taco Bell dog was funny.

I don't care who wrote it. It's a hoot! Thanks for posting it.
5 posted on 06/29/2002 7:10:48 PM PDT by lizma
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To: Cultural Jihad
Why'd ya post this? I know the ocassional freeper will attribute it to Ted Nugent but I haven't seen anyone do that in a while.
6 posted on 06/29/2002 7:42:51 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: Cultural Jihad
"...If not Carlin, then who did write it? ..."

I WROTE IT, DAMMIT, NOW GET BACK TO WORK!!

Kids today...geez............FRegards

7 posted on 06/29/2002 7:47:50 PM PDT by gonzo
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To: Cultural Jihad
George Carlin doesnt believe people should be allowed to own property, he is also an athiest and a Socialist, he couldnt possibley have written this. He is funny though.
8 posted on 06/29/2002 7:52:54 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: Cultural Jihad
We don't need more laws! Let's enforce the ones we already have.

This is the only line I would change.

I think we have Way to many laws and we should get busy repealing as many as we can.

9 posted on 06/29/2002 8:19:41 PM PDT by Pontiac
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To: Cultural Jihad
This essay appeared in the FreeRepublic.com on-line forum back in September 2000 under the title "I Am a Bad Republican" (picking up title changes and additions since then as it was forwarded around the Internet), and the person who posted it there has taken credit for it in a recent message in that same forum.

Bootyist-monk took credit for it when he first wrote it and published it here. To wit, "A Democrat friend of mine sent me a list of how to be a "good Republican". This was my response." This was on 9/1/2000. It's pretty clear that he's the author of this -- too bad it's not quite so clear to snopes.com.

10 posted on 06/30/2002 12:12:44 AM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: Cultural Jihad
I believe a self-righteous liberal with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.

How true.
11 posted on 06/30/2002 7:35:28 AM PDT by gitmo
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To: Sir Gawain
Ping
12 posted on 06/30/2002 2:17:54 PM PDT by Texaggie79
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To: Cultural Jihad
this has been attributed to Carlin, Leary, Miller, and even Kid Rock. Personally, I could not care less who wrote it, other than to say that I agree with it wholeheartedly, it makes me smile and laugh every time I read it, and I can now print it to post on my frige. Thanks, CJ!
13 posted on 06/30/2002 7:12:37 PM PDT by RangeRatt
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To: Cultural Jihad
Hey, Jihad

Thanks for the bump. I've been working on location finishing a project and have been only able to lurk for the past few months. Will this thing ever end? (I may be prejudiced, but I still think that the original is the best).

Thanks again,
Bootyist
14 posted on 06/30/2002 9:47:41 PM PDT by bootyist-monk
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To: Cultural Jihad
Carlin did write a somewhat-similar style piece in which narrow views were ascribed to conservative Americans. I thought it was well established that Carlin is a liberal. He didn't start out that way, but the 60s hippie movement seemed to adversely and permanently affect him.
15 posted on 06/30/2002 9:50:34 PM PDT by luvbach1
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To: RangeRatt
Leary, as he was always known, died in '96. He was no libertarian, just a narcissist and all-around a-hole. I knew someone very well who was a friend of Leary's in the 30s at Harvard. Leary popped up from time to time when he wasn't urging his students to consume psychotropic substances, all with the blessing of the atheist psychiatric establishment, no less. I met Leary (how well named) a few times and was utterly repulsed. I was a very young woman. It was the 70s and 80s. I especially couldn't stand Leary's stupid grinning face and feigned delight with himself (talk about the banality of evil). Leary disclosed to my friend that he was planning to have his head frozen after death by his cryogenics pals but I seem to recall he lost his nerve and died of cancer complications. BTW, everything deep or honorable you read about Leary and his crowd is pure invention of their cult followers. The same cult that promotes Allen Ginsberg and all things godless.
16 posted on 07/02/2002 2:29:27 AM PDT by Havisham
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