George Carlin is no longer with us, but that doesn’t mean he can’t gift us new material. SiriusXM has released a previously unheard clip from a Carlin set recorded just before Sept. 11, 2001.
The new material titled “Rats & Squealers,” first posted by Vulture, is astonishingly relevant, given that it was recorded 15 years ago. Carlin riffs on police brutality and corruption, a blistering indictment of crooked cops.
“When I was a kid and we went to the movies, we rooted against the police and for the crooks — and I still do,” he starts out.