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With more verve than he had when he offended the Vegas conferees, he tore into the beliefs of his new fans — the countercultural crowd, lapsed Catholics, liberals and their politically correct kids. Self-righteousness needed to be punctured, and no one was immune: feminists who couldn’t find the humor in rape; smug save-the-planet activists; greedy baby boomers ('Whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: Gimme it, it’s mine!!') He fiercely allied himself with the underdog, but he didn’t let the underdog off the hook: 'Everybody’s at the mall, scratching his ass, picking his nose, taking his credit card out of his fanny pack and buying a pair of sneakers with lights in them.'
Offstage, he was a kind man who was unusually generous,..."
-- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, covering George Carlin, who - for a hippie - saw the world much as TMR does, as reflected in The New York Times.
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