{"id":307943,"date":"2017-05-13T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/garbage-in-garbage-out-happy-birthday-george-carlin\/"},"modified":"2017-05-13T07:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:30:38","slug":"garbage-in-garbage-out-happy-birthday-george-carlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/garbage-in-garbage-out-happy-birthday-george-carlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage In, Garbage Out: Happy Birthday, George Carlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The take-no-prisoners George Carlin would have turned 80 on Friday. It&#8217;s hard not to wonder what the guy who famously berated a country where &#8220;Anybody can be president. That&#8217;s the problem&#8221; would have made of the Trumpster calamity. Prescient, he savaged both politicians and the soulless culture that made them, arguing, &#8220;If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you\u2019re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.&#8221; From his trippy weatherman: &#8220;Tonight&#8217;s forecast: Dark.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/further\/2017\/05\/12\/garbage-garbage-out-happy-birthday-george-carlin\">Common Dreams<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The take-no-prisoners George Carlin would have turned 80 on Friday. It&#8217;s hard not to wonder what the guy who famously berated a country where &#8220;Anybody can be president. That&#8217;s the problem&#8221; would have made of the Trumpster calamity. Prescient, he savaged both politicians and the soulless culture that made them, arguing, &#8220;If you have selfish, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-307943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}