Bob, Defending the US military in Iraq is bad enough; stating that they aim at "targets" instead of people is worse; but asking a stupid question about the video in the subject line, and then admitting that you haven't watched it (and have no clue about the topic), is nearly as hilarious as some of Carlin's material. If you want to argue with a dead comic's routine, maybe you should see it first. Then, good luck; comedy only has to have an "air" of credibility to work.
But whatever you do, please stay on topic. --------------------------------- These days, the US military bombs targets, not people. They have a very accurate targeting capability, albeit far from perfect. During the wars in Vietnam, Korea, and Europe, the US military did indeed bomb people. I'm guessing there has been no group of people bombed more by the US than the white Germans. (Are Japanese people "brown"?) During the Cold War, the US built 18,000 or so nuclear warheads intended to vaporize a couple hundred million white people in Russia. So where do you get this "bomb brown people" from? I admit I haven't listened to Carlin since the Hippy Dippy Weatherman days, so maybe I'm out of touch. From: ma ni Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Libertarian] Re: George Carlin: "We Like War" Wendie, You're right. Assuming most of his audience was American and white, Carlin bombed the fuck out of them. You know you're listening to a very special comedian when he starts attacking his audience, and gets away with it. Of course his point was made by the stupid reaction of many members in the audience who didn't even realize he was ridiculing them; they cheered at the notion of being too incompetent to do anything but bomb brown people - as if they were at a pep-rally for war. RIP GC; an original hippie who made it big without ever really selling out. ---------------------------------
