Russert & Carlin: Two Nice Catholic Boys
I lost my father at
58. When Tim Russert died at 58 I felt like I
lost a member of my own family. So young! What a
loss. But before I could gain my equilibrium
George Carlin dropped dead at the age of 71. I
revered George Carlin! Even had the pleasure of
meeting him. A very bad week for humor,
journalism, and Catholics in general! I couldn't
help but juxtapose these two untimely deaths.
Then I read an article by Marc Copper in The L.A.
Weekly that connected all the dots.
GEORGE CARLIN TO WORLD: "BLOW ME!"
BY MARC COOPER
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 6:43 pm
I KNEW GEORGE CARLIN. I saw him exactly one week
before he checked out. And I can tell you that
George Carlin was no Tim Russert. There has been
no long line of dignitaries, pols, power brokers,
media bigwigs and other assorted bloviating fools
and hucksters lining up to eulogize him. There’s
been no scrum of the high and mighty publicly
blubbering about what a warm and generous soul he
was. There was no hour after hour of
uninterrupted “news” coverage on CNN about the
death of America’s most fearless social critic.
And, frankly, if Carlin were to learn that any of
these jokers indeed had the gumption to actually
show up to pay him their final respects, he would
most certainly awake from the dead and cut one
last fart right in their faces. Or he’d simply
pop right up and out of the box, stare them in
the eye and let loose with a full-throated
version of his favorite line: “Blow me!”
Continued @ http://www.laweekly.com/news/dissonance/george-carlin-to-world-blow-me/19157/