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In the 1970s the station became a free-speech martyr when the Supreme Court upheld a Federal Communications Commission indecency citation for running George Carlin's seven "filthy words".
(The case began when a New York radio listener complained after hearing George Carlin's "Filthy Words" routine while driving with his son one afternoon).
It is a home for every person in need, and would you please not use filthy words, and don't live without manners.
George Carlin, below, the veteran comic whose history in Washington includes the Supreme Court's consideration of his "Filthy Words" routine, will be the 11th person inducted into the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' pantheon of humor.
In that case, the supreme court rejected Pacifica's claim that its first amendment rights had been violated when it was censured by the FCC for having broadcast the notorious "filthy words" monologue of the comedian George Carlin.
The broadcast at issue then was a 12-minute monologue by the comedian George Carlin, titled "Filthy Words," that deliberately challenged federal regulators by highlighting "the words you couldn't say" on the public airwaves.
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In the Brandian mode of Slackerism "profit" is, of course, a "filthy word" – because bankers are bad.
But Brand went anyway, because it was good for his career (not for his future profit, I hope, which is a filthy word).
It was a filthy word.
On stage, Trump says the Mexican president should be ashamed of using such a filthy word on television.
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