Rest in Peace George Carlin

RIP George Carlin
And just woke up, saw this.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Acerbic standup comedian and satirist George Carlin, whose staunch defense of free speech in his most famous routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.

Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. He was 71.

This one was my guy as a little girl.

I had this record, the kind you play with
a need. He was playing pool and his own head was one of the balls.....

Listened to it a thousand times.

Free speech baby. Free speech. ( FCC v. Pacifica Foundation)

So: Thank you, you motherfucker.

For this: Shit. Piss. Fuck.

And a whole lotta : Cunt. Cocksucker. And tits. (Which nicely got replace over time with twat.)

Thank you.

Edwards, Clinton and Obama on the TV Strike

...and the presidental runners from the left weigh in on the writer's strike ... not that liberals need further branding with the Hollywood stamp.

Colbert in Carolina

photo credit: Wilder

Stephen Colbert’s presidential candidacy may have been a joke to many, but apparently some in South Carolina took it seriously enough to lobby Democratic officials in the early primary state to deny him a spot on the state’s ballot.

The lobbying was pretty intense, according to several people, with most of it against allowing Mr. Colbert, the comedian on Comedy Central and native son of the state, on the ballot. They included prominent supporters of Senator Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, although another prominent supporter lobbied in favor of Mr. Colbert. The Obama campaign said that it had no connection to the vote.

The party’s executive council voted 13-3 last week to reject Mr. Colbert’s ballot application. Mr. Colbert formally acknowledged yesterday that he was dropping his candidacy but the party’s vote has drawn fierce criticism on the Internet, saying the move was undemocratic, and continues to roil the party.

story credit:NYTimes

So, let's here it for Dick!

Dick Harpootlian, the former chairman of the state Democratic party and an Obama supporter, lobbied on behalf of getting Mr. Colbert on the ballot.

“I think humor plays a big role in politics,” Mr. Harpootlian said. “To sit around dour-faced discussing macro-economics, good golly. Most of us got involved in politics because it was fun.”

He also said he thought a Colbert candidacy would have been good for South Carolina. “He was drawing attention to our state, he wasn’t making fun of if it _ well, in a way he was _ but we missed an opportunity to draw people into our primary,” he said. He said that so many young people get their news from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart and the “Colbert Report”, “why not go after that demographic?”

He also said that if Dennis Kucinich, “who believes in U.F.O.s,” can get on the ballot, Mr. Colbert should be able to as well.

Wiki watching

from NYTImes:

Most people using company networks to edit Wikipedia entries dabble in subjects that appear to have little to do with their work, although sometimes they cannot resist a silly dig at the competition.

Last year, someone using a computer at the Washington Post Company changed the name of the owner of a free local paper, The Washington Examiner, from Philip Anschutz to Charles Manson. A person using a computer at CBS updated the page on Wolf Blitzer of CNN to add that his real name was Irving Federman. (It is actually Wolf Blitzer.)

And The New York Times Company is among those whose employees have made, among hundreds of innocuous changes, a handful of questionable edits. A change to the page on President Bush, for instance, repeated the word “jerk” 12 times. And in the entry for Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, the word “pianist” was changed to “penis.”

(giggle,giggle)

Wired's got an assload of nabbed spin jobs.

Stop the presses :::: Paris Hilton....

... released this statement:

I must also say that I was shocked to see all of the attention devoted to the amount of time I would spend in jail for what I had done by the media, public and city officials. I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things, like the men and women serving our country in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places around the world."

This is not a joke.

Scooter Libby gets 30 months

Paging Fox News.

After the news broke, Fox News devoted just nine consecutive minutes to the story up to 1 p.m. Between noon and 1 p.m. ET, Fox News did not interview any legal or political experts and not return to the story after its original report.

Instead, between noon and 1 p.m., here is a list of some of the more pressing news stories that Fox News opted to cover instead of Libby's sentencing:

The abduction of a Kansas City teenager outside a Target discount store. (Fox News returned to this story several times within the hour.)
A plane crash into Lake Michigan.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) recent comments about faith in her life.
Casinos giving away gasoline in order to entice visitors.
Record producer Phil Spector's murder trial in Los Angeles.
Lightning striking a house in Oregon.
A tornado warning issued for western Connecticut.
News that the father of JonBenet Ramsey is dating the mother of missing teen Natalee Holloway.
R&B singer R. Kelly's legal woes.
An update on the JFK Airport terror plot.
Cuba state-run television airing a new interview with Fidel Castro.
Foreign policy tension between Russia and the United States.
At the top of the 3 p.m. ET hour, Libby's sentencing was slotted as the day's fourth most important story on Fox News' Studio B with Shepard Smith.

...from Media Matters.