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George Carlin or Ted Nugent's article on "A Bad American"-fiction!


Summary of eRumor
This is a widely-circulated piece of social and political commentary, said to have been written by comedian George Carlin. Other versions say it has been written by musician Ted Nugent.


The Truth
TruthOrFiction.com has found this attributed to several different writers and performers including Ted Nugent and Rush Limbaugh.

George Carlin has issued a public denial that he wrote it.

Ted Nugent has issued a public denial that he wrote it.

If anyone knows the true origin of the piece, let us know.

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/carlin.htm

Origins: Just
about any unsourced list of witty observations about our politics and social mores gets credited to humorist George Carlin these days, even when it doesn't really sound like anything he would write. Carlin may sometimes use the format of stringing together a few dozen pithy comments about a wide variety of topical subjects, but the tone of his humor is nothing like this reactionary piece. If any doubt remained, Carlin himself swept it away by announcing on his web site that he is not the author of the article.

If not Carlin, then who did write it? This piece has also been credited to a number of decidedly conservative, outspoken media figures, such as rock star Ted Nugent, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, and actor-comedian Denis Leary, but the even if the article may seem to echo the political opinions of these men, it doesn't quite match any of them, nor does the language used sound quite right for any of these figures. (Leary, like Carlin, has been credited with creating some other Internet favorites, such as a vituperative discourse on e-mail chain letters and the "Are You Man Enough?" essay.

This essay appeared in the FreeRepublic.com on-line forum back in September 2000 under the title "I Am a Bad Republican" (picking up title changes and additions since then as it was forwarded around the Internet), and the person who posted it there has taken credit for it in a recent message in that same forum.

Last updated: 11 June 2001