The Carlin Seven<\/strong><\/p>\nBack in the day on July 21st, 1972, comedian George Carlin was arrested during a performance in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for allegedly violating obscenity laws. Launching into his notorious routine, Carlin uttered the \u201cSeven Words You Can Never Say on Television,\u201d during the city\u2019s outdoor \u201cSummerfest.\u201d Apparently those seven words, which Carlin said were so heavy that they would \u201cinfect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war,\u201d were also so heinous they couldn\u2019t be spoken onstage either. The routine was played as part of the subsequent trial and elicited laughter! Free on bail, Carlin finally beat the rap when the judge in the case called the words the comedian had dubbed \u201cThe Milwaukee Seven,\u201d indecent, but protected under free speech. <\/p>\n
The controversy over the routine quieted for just all of one year until it aired on Pacifica station WBAI in New York in 1973, causing the landmark lawsuit, Pacifica vs. the FCC. As a result, I can\u2019t tell you what the seven words are over the air. If I did, we would get fined. And if we got fined, we\u2019d have to have another fund drive. And nobody wants that! <\/p>\n
For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"| the entire program The Carlin Seven Back in the day on July 21st, 1972, comedian George Carlin was arrested during a performance in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for allegedly violating obscenity laws. Launching into his notorious routine, Carlin uttered the \u201cSeven Words You Can Never Say on Television,\u201d during the city\u2019s outdoor \u201cSummerfest.\u201d Apparently those seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a> The Carlin Seven<\/strong><\/p>\n