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Article: FATHER GEORGE; COMIC GIANT GEORGE CARLIN'S HUMOR WAS RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, TOO ; ;.(Opinion)(Letter to the editor)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2008
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Byline: Rev. Michael Heath
This isn't fair - losing two giants in a week; first Tim Russert and now George Carlin.
George Carlin was an American litmus test. For many conservatives, he was a disrespectful, foul-mouthed comedian. To most everyone else, however, he was a comic genius who made fun of the absurdities in life that no one else even dared talk about. His routines became part of our national consciousness and changed the way we saw the world.
George Carlin was more than a comic, he was an iconoclast and a prophetic voice. His use of language was ahead of its time. He blazed intellectual trails which most of us
now drive on without a second thought. ...