FROM THE TIMES OF LONDON: Cult U.S. Comedian George Carlin dies at 71

In another shocking loss to the American media firmament, George Carlin’s death, in its own way, is just as disconcerting as the recent death of Tim Russert. Carlin was another champion of the common man who spoke without fear or favor to those who hold political power.

In the first foreign press article posted at at WORLDMEETS.US on Carlin’s death, The Times of London writes:

“Carlin constantly pushed the envelope with his jokes, particularly with his most celebrated and controversial routine. When he uttered all seven words during a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested for disturbing the peace. When they were played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a Supreme Court ruling in 1978 upholding the government’s power to punish stations for broadcasting offensive language.

His comedy revolved around a central theme: humanity is a cursed, doomed species. ‘I don’t have any beliefs or allegiances. I don’t believe in this country, I don’t believe in religion, or a god, and I don’t believe in all these man-made institutional ideas,’ he said.

Balding and bearded, in the 1970s Carlin achieved the status of an anti-establishment icon with stand-up routines full of drug references. In the 1978 legal case that surrounded his ‘Seven Words…’ routine, Federal Communications Commission vs Pacifica Foundation, the highest court in America ruled that the words cited in Carlin’s routine were indecent, and that the government’s broadcast regulator could ban them from being aired at times when children might be listening.”

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