Program Information

#691 -- George Carlin at the National Press Club

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Program Type:

Weekly Program

Featured Speakers/Commentators:

George Carlin

Contributor:

Kenneth Dowst Contact Contributor

Date Published:

May 29, 2021, 7:20 p.m.

Summary: George Carlin's address to the National Press Club on May 13, 1999.

A little more restrained and more unified than Carlin's concert routines, the speech is packed with wit. humor. and Carlin's trademark iconoclasm.

It's a 3-part satire on the degradation of language in America. Carlin targets first the b.s. of politicians, then the euphemisms loved by most citizens, and then the "politically correct" language of liberals. (Continued...)

Credits: This talk--highly relevant today--now appears for the first time on New World Notes. I have slightly condensed the speech (shortening Carlins introductory remarks).

"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "suspicious gaze") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

Notes: This installment of NWN is also available, in MP3 and other formats, at The Internet Archive. The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/nwn-691-carlin-npc-1-192k

More details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com

SERIES OVERVIEW: -- Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for. "Date recorded," below, = date of first scheduled broadcast.

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