George Carlin's take on "The American Dream"

[punkdrew]

blew the top of my head clean off and then reattached it:

[Phlexor]

Yeah I downloaded the whole DVD a few weeks ago, but he's spot on. I mean you notice all the laws and trade agreements are slowly but surely turning towards the favour of big business and multinational corporations. And us citizens have no rights any more except the right to bend over and take it up the ass.

[Scrapheap]

Isn't it funny how comedians like George Carlin and John Stewart can tell more truth about politics through a few jokes than a dozen talking head pundits could in a whole hour??

[DukeNukem]

The top of that guy's bald head is almost as shiny as my Balls of Carbon Fiber-plated Steel(TM)!

[Alex179]

Yeah I downloaded the whole DVD a few weeks ago, but he's spot on. I mean you notice all the laws and trade agreements are slowly but surely turning towards the favour of big business and multinational corporations. And us citizens have no rights any more except the right to bend over and take it up the ass.

They have always been that way, if not moreso in the past.   Anti-trust and monopoly measures have attempted to stifle it a bit.

[punkdrew]

Isn't it funny how comedians like George Carlin and John Stewart can tell more truth about politics through a few jokes than a dozen talking head pundits could in a whole hour??

The same reason(s) why carton shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy get away with way more raunchy and subversive material. It goes under the radar.

['andersom']

Isn't it funny how comedians like George Carlin and John Stewart can tell more truth about politics through a few jokes than a dozen talking head pundits could in a whole hour??

The same reason(s) why carton shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy get away with way more raunchy and subversive material. It goes under the radar.

No, censoring humour would be the proof that what was said was right. Condoning it, even laughing about it, makes it look that it isn't that bad yet.

[punkdrew]

Isn't it funny how comedians like George Carlin and John Stewart can tell more truth about politics through a few jokes than a dozen talking head pundits could in a whole hour??

The same reason(s) why carton shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy get away with way more raunchy and subversive material. It goes under the radar.

No, censoring humour would be the proof that what was said was right. Condoning it, even laughing about it, makes it look that it isn't that bad yet.

True that.

[punkdrew]

Like the original ending of the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The pod people stop chasing Miles Bennell as he crosses the highway because, as one of them says, "No one will believe him."