remember the George Carlin debate - take a look at this

[doughboysigep]

I agree 100% with good ol' George


YES, I'M A BAD AMERICAN
by George Carlin


I Am Your Worst Nightmare. I am a BAD American. I am George Carlin.

I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some mid level governmental functionary be it Democratic or Republican!

I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way, damn it!

I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer, it makes you a smart American.

I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything.

I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac, try to do it in English.

I think fireworks should be legal on the 4th of July.

I think that being a student doesn't give you any more enlightenment than working at Blockbuster. In fact, if your parents are footing the bill to put your pansy ass through 4 years plus, of college, you haven't begun to be enlightened.

I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.

My heroes are John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and whoever canceled Jerry Springer.

I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.

I know wrestling is fake and I don't waste my time arguing about it.

I think global warming is a big lie. Where are all those experts now, when I'm freezing my ass off during these long winters and paying, paying, paying?

I've never owned a slave, or was a slave, I didn't wander forty years In the desert after getting chased out of Egypt. I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks and neither have you! So, shut-the-Hell-up already.

I want to know which church is it exactly where the Reverend Jesse Jackson practices, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution. Can I get an AMEN on that one?

I think the cops have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you're running from them.

I also think they have the right to pull your ass over if you're breaking the law, regardless of what color you are.

I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don't want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.

I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me crap or trying to guilt me into making "donations" to their cause. These people should be targets.

I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents.

And what the hell is going on with gas prices... again?

If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I'm a BAD American.

If you are a BAD American too, please forward this to everyone you know.

We need our country back!

[Jorgy]

I'm a big George fan, but he didn't write this

from snopes...

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.

[CODave]

Good job Jorgy... As I was reading it I was thinking... this was not written by George Carlin... Does not sound like George Carlin in ideology or communication style.

Before I saw your post I was going to say, where did you get this... an email maybe?

Another hoax.

[Dave590]

George Carlin is a jerk...He's always been a jerk, and will most likely always be a jerk.

Did I mention that I thought he was a jerk?

[Vapodog]

Regardless of who wrote it, it's still a good assessment.

[JagMagMan]

Sounds more like something Andy Rooney would write than a low life like Carlin would write!

[Coastie]

This has, infact, been attributed to Andy Rooney as well. As recently as this morning I received an email in that regard. Whether he is the author or not I don't know. Even Rooney is becoming more than a little weird lately, some of his commentary sounds more closely akin to a socialist than the crust old conservative curmudgeon I had come to like.

[buckmine]

I don't agree with this one

I think global warming is a big lie. Where are all those experts now, when I'm freezing my ass off during these long winters and paying, paying, paying?

[Coastie]

BUckmine, these "experts" today crying about Global Warming, twenty years ago (Time magazine 1984) were predicting dire results of a new Ice Age. They were reccomending sprinkling coal dust on the ice caps to make them melt faster so the worlds oceans wouldn't dry up and other weird solutions. When they get their act together, and base their predictions on solid science, folks might begin to listen again. The scientific community has cried wolf too often to be taken seriously on many subjects and this is one of them.
There are many more important things to consider such as pollution in the worlds oceans and finding a substitute for fossil fuels that should keep any serious scientist busy for decades.