# The Right’s Long, Misguided Attempt to Claim Comedy’s Greatest Iconoclast for Themselves

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/the-rights-long-misguided-attempt-to-claim-comedys-greatest-iconoclast-for-themselves/
- Published: 2022-05-21T09:15:12-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo: George Carlin. George Carlin Estate / HBO. Article by Jason Bailey. Slate – May 20, 2022. George Carlin’s anti-authoritarian polemics go viral across the political spectrum, but where did he really stand? When the draft opinion for the Supreme Court’s upcoming reversal of Roe v Wade leaked last week, an unsurprising thing happened: people started sharing an old but prescient George Carlin routine. The clip, which comes from his 1996 HBO special Back in Town […] Click here to view original web page at slate.com