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Hear the Edited Version of Adam Carolla’s Epic Rant

Below is an edited version of the epic Adam Carolla, anti-Occupy Wall Street Rant that we featured earlier on the site. To read our original story, go here.

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  • Hilandak
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 9:43pm

    This from the OWS website,
    “ows is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. ”
    Taken at face value there is nothing in there about handouts or Mr. Smith and his Rolls Royce that he worked his butt off for. We have a great system of government…however… our lobby and ethic laws are flawed and pander to the rich, both persons and corporations. As with any large group of people you will attract some fringe players that try and derail the process for their own goals. I would ask that you seeek out information on the core values and goals of this movement. You may be surprised that you agree, or not.

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  • calvinthecat
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 9:14pm

    Honestly if more people would hear this and get off of work until they could do a bit better.
    I started work detasling corn. Washed dishes then decided to go to Wyoming to get a summer job.
    I wound up walking miles to find a job washing dishes again . Cooking for 1200 people.
    At that point I made enough money to buy a car.
    Once I had a car I found a electrical apprentiship that made me 20 K the first year in 1981 .
    Since that time I have lived well.
    But it seems funny that people think that it vas all “luck”
    I have worked so many hours to get to this point 72 hrs often to fix anything when younger.
    It was fun.
    It is just not luck it is work as he says.
    Do the work in school or work like a dog .
    Later you might think you should respect engineers and that nothing is free and that is what time should be spent on when young.
    Well this honest story in a world of political correctness is a bit of fresh air.
    Adam has hit the nail on the head and I am happy Glen found him for me to hear.
    I hope he can come to the oil palace like Glen has I will go listen.
    Thanks John

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:58am

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hXJBiDXW3I&feature=related Adam Carrola is as bad if not worse than Jerry Springer and Howard Stern combined…Look-up Lovline on youtube…it’s sickening…If he hadn’t got rich peddling filth.He would be an ows protester…If it were my daughter on the phone…I would rip his whearwolf head off his pencil-neck and bust it on the ground like a fn pumpkin…If you don’t want Ron Paul elected just tie him to this POS…Adam Crayola ,God was listening

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    • jusstjones
      Posted on December 2, 2011 at 2:09am

      Yes Loveline was epically profane and perfectly in sync with its target audience. Don’t diminish the truth of what he said because it is heavily sauced with profanity.

      Adam Carolla is not a traditional social-econ conservative. From that rant he sounds like a live and let live libertarian. Do not follow him if you are a traditionalist. Only listen to him edited when you can find it. However, I’ll take a live and let live federalist society over an overbearing statist government any day.

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  • Dianne93101
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:55pm

    never heard of this guy til today but I guess from his WikiBio it appears he’s popular w/the OWS types. So even podcast, albeit, extremely popular, guys are seeing the risk in supporting that movement. This is something that even Spooky Dude can’t fix with all his billions.

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  • investlite
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:22pm

    Can someone upload this to youtube? My internet is too slow (youtube I can pause and allow to buffer the whole thing) and I don’t want the filth of the unedited version.
    TIA!

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  • ROB RAGE
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:43pm

    Adam is Right on…Its Envy from the Slackers who want what they haven’t earned….Obama and his fellow Marxists OWS sycophants think everything should be equal…equal pay…equal stuff….Any rational person knows that’s impossible…but that fact has never impaired the Commies from forcing their Utopia…that looks allot like Cuba…on the rest of us…As John Wayne said…Life is Hard..and it’s even Harder if your stupid..!

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  • CoolHandGordon
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:28pm

    He says it’s shame driven, but I’m not sure. I think it may be the Lack of shame.

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    • trouthunter
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 7:31pm

      I agree, I was thinking the other day that the entire country, especially the youth, are incapable of feeling “shame”. I doubt any of the kids today has ever had a parent or grandparent say “Shame on you…” Everyone just got handed trophies and were told how wonderful they were….As evidenced by the horrific examples on the multiple talent/reality shows of today. Look how many of those kids are absolutely horrific, and what? No one told them the truth (that they totally suck and have no ability to sing/dance, etc, because heaven forbid they might get their little feelers hurt? Nice to hear someone like Corolla say what he thinks instead of just going with what’s popular.

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  • goldenfish
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:20pm

    Loved…loved…LOVED the original version…but played the “edited” version for my kids to hear! I’d love to have this on iTunes just to play for every “that’s not fair!” I hear! It took me a very long time to understand what it means by “covet”…this OWS is exactly that. The fact is that life is not always fair. It would be boring if it were always fair. It would also be impossible.

    Someone called the GB show and stated that she did not want and, more importantly, would not allow her children to accept “participation trophies”. If more parents would stand up and do the same maybe our kids will be better off.

    My kids went to public school last year and the “honors ceremony” lasted forever because each and every child got some kind of reward/participation certificate/medal. I can accept 1st/2nd honors. But what they were giving were “Bringing Up Grades”, “Good Citizen”, and “Good Friend” awards! What a freakin’ joke!!! Now they are in a private school and the only “awards” earned: 1st Honors/2nd Honors. That is it. And these kids earn the honor. We have to start somewhere…how about on our own children!

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  • dollyg55
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:18pm

    I want to thank you for giving the edited version. I could not listen to the other I tried and just could not. Thanks again, and people that want to listen to the garbage can go to his website to listen.

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  • Blackop
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:11pm

    Leave it to the 2nd rate comedian to not understand what’s going on.

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  • HYPNOTOAD
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:07pm

    I knew I liked Adam when I watched “the car show”.

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  • Pium Vir
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:58pm

    Adam Rocks, Encinom is a *******, and stop asking me to sign up for the Newsletter!

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    • Pium Vir
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:12pm

      How on earth is lib and tard together worthy of censoring….????

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  • newcleardays
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:57pm

    truly epic

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  • snamgeis
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:39pm

    Finally a celebrity that has common sense.

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  • preppymom
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:28pm

    I remember the song from when I was 5 on Sesame Street, “The most important person in the world is you.“ It was the beginning of the ”self-esteem” movement. They lied to me. I finished my first book after 7 years of work. Somehow I thought it would make me special. Nope. People don’t care. Life is hard. You have to pound the pavement to make a business succeed. Participation awards are not good for kids. Prepare them now for the challenge of becoming a success.

    New article: Herman Cain and the Tramp-O-Meter
    http://www.crackingthemalecode.com/

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    • goldenfish
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:23pm

      I never realized how damaging Sesame Street was for a lot of reasons. Yes, it had a lot of great things but the “I love me” stuff turned into a “I love me…and only me” thing. Kids grew up knowing the world revolved around them.

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  • BMartin1776
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:28pm

    This entitlement mentality is a result of the Oprahnization of America! Her show epitomized the “you are beautiful, perfect, number 1, do whatever you want, dont let anyone tell you you arent good enough” which has steamrolled over the years with liberalism. When Corolla was on the Man Show with Kimmel that was their underlying target, they couldnt take it! Viewers of Oprahs show raised kids with this entitlement mentality and the timing is about right with those in occupys age to the show that was on for what 20-25 years? What we need is ppl to take a page from American Idols Simon Cowell and tell kids/folks they stink on ice! (as Glenn likes to say)

    Other than the foul language there is nothing wrong with this rant the guy is 100% right. These kids raised this way expect everything to be handed to them b/c of their liberal upbringing. It even goes as far as putting helmets & pads on kids so they dont get a boo boo when they fall off their bike. Ya know what I fell plenty of times and b/c of it I learned how to take a fall, I have instinct to protect myself when I go down. You put all that padding on a kid they will never learn how to take the punches. That is the problem they are raised on how to get around not taking the punches then one day they get slammed down and dont know what to do…

    Why do we fall? ….. To learn how to pick ourselves up! http://SavingtheRepublic.com

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  • mclarkson
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:26pm

    Holy sweet mother of crap. Ok, for those who can’t do math (looking at you Adam Carolla), you should really hire a fact checker before you speak. The top one percent payed 37% percent of the taxes but hold more than 42% of the wealth, leaving those of us who have to split 68% of the wealth among 99% of the population to pay the remaining 63%. If you own more than 42% of the stuff but pay a less than 42% of the taxes, you still aren’t paying your fair share.

    To be clear, I am not one of the entitled millennials. I am a self employed small business owner who is himself in the top 10% of earners in America. I would like to have America go back to a system where merit was rewarded. If a CEO drives a company into the ground, no bonus, no job, no golden parachute. If an employee goes above the call of duty, bonus, job security, and pension. You get the idea.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:42pm

      so the us has 110% wow, love your math.

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    • Kankokage
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:57pm

      So if I own about 0.0001% of the wealth of this country, therefore I should only pay a 0.0001% income tax rate? How would we even go about finding out this rate? Or do we get lumped into groups where the bottom of the group gets the biggest shaft?

      We might as well just destroy the concept of success. Figure out where the optimum income-tax burden wage is and just hang out. Put everyone through the homogenizer and line up for bread every morning while the benevolent, omnipotent Dear Leaders enjoy their caviar and champagne. Sounds freaking awesome.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:05pm

      You are so full of it. Educate yourself before you try to trash someone else!
      I wish I sould post the graph here for you to see, but you will have to go to the link to see how wrong you are. Where did you come up with your numbers anyway? MSNBC?

      From Political Math;
      “Here is a graph showing how the rich make more income and pay even more in taxes. While the upper middle class pay about the same percentage in taxes as they make. Finally the lower 60% pay less in taxes then their % of the national income.”

      http://visualizingeconomics.com/2010/02/12/how-much-taxes-are-paid-by-the-poor-middle-class-and-rich/

      NOTE:
      The graph is using numbers from 2005 with those terrible Bush tax “cuts” for those terrible rich people.
      Get a clue buddy!

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    • Osaka
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:38pm

      By the way, Adam’s math comes from a reference to how much the 1% in “California” not America overall are paying nearly 50%. So while what you have to say may be true for the country in general, it’s much higher in California.

      Also, there isn’t a limit to wealth you know. It‘s not like there’s only so much money in the world and we have to beg for scraps from the rich man’s table (though liberals and communists would have you believe this). We create wealth whenever we trade goods or services. A person can take a $3 notebook and a $1 pen and create a million dollar novel, poof, like magic. They’ve created something of great value out of something of little value. Currency is only the symbol of trade (or object that makes our trade easier). Wealth is something we create ourselves, not something we beg others for. As an employee you trade something you have for currency. A cashier is easy enough to come by, so the value of that skill is low. Whereas a brain surgeon is a rarer skill, hence their ability to trade the rare skill for more currency. Basic laws of supply and demand.

      So if you want to make what the 1% make, you need to find something rare (or also called valuable) to trade/offer in order to demand the large amount of currency. If you‘re content to stay where you’re at, well, don’t blame the 1%.

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    • mlsaxton
      Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:21pm

      OK, I fact checked like you suggested. IRS data for 2008, the top 1% pays more than the bottom 95%. The top 1% paid about 37% of the federal income taxes and received approx 21% of the wealth, not 42%, as you state. And when the top 1% receive 21% of the wealth, it is incorrect to assume that the other 99% are left to divide the remaining wealth among themselves. Historically, in America, what has made us great, is that, when someone wants a bigger piece of the pie, they did not expect to take it from their neighbor. Instead, they went out and “grew the pie”, and their neighbors reaped some of the increase in wealth as part of the ripple effect that results when someone “grows the pie”. Sadly, more and more Americans no longer understand this basic fact. You’re say you are a small business man. How can you not understand this?

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  • CulperGang
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:24pm

    A house divided FALLS. This kind of rant is a division and the GLOBALIST love to see America implode. Corporations have USED capitalism and DESTROYED America by taking OUR technology and our jobs to other countries. SO where are the OWs wrong?? Wall Street=Goldman Sachs=is RAPING Americas wealth. So where are the OWs wrong.
    I have worked for everything, so when the politicians RIP the $$$$$ right out of my paycheck and give it to BANKERS via bailout…..YOU BET I feel ENTITLED TO A “Quality of Life”….that these “elite” basta are destroying…..I AM ENTITLED TO FREEDOM and a HIGH QUALITY of LIFE….THIS IS AMERICA!!!………..rest of you servile pukes don’t feel that way?? DON’T knock your fellow Americans for standing up for what they are entitled to. IT is an ABJECT lie that most to all at the OWs have never worked. You idiots if you cannot say anything decent about the OWs don’t.
    Your enemies LOVE to see Americans at each others throat. MDDLE CLASS AMErica is the 99% and they pay the lion share of taxes…not the 5%..that is just a blatant lie.

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    • Kankokage
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:50pm

      You are not entitled to anything. The Government acts as a means to protect rights endowed by our Creator, those being life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You are not entitled to have your troubles taken away, but you are free to live your life the way you want. You are not entitled to freedom, but you have the right to it – if you are willing to fight for it. You are not entitled to a high quality of life, but you have the right to work for it and not have it taken away. The entitlement mentality is only destructive.

      Where is OWS wrong? They are looking the wrong way. The devil is behind them, pushing them and supporting them, doing all it can to protect itself. All they have to do is turn around and see the source of crony capitalism – the US Government itself. Without the government pushing bailouts and special favors, there would be nothing for Wall Street to accept.

      And that doesn’t even touch upon the filth.

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    • mom4times
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:05pm

      And your take on Corporations using capitalism and destroying America and having to move technology and jobs overseas……LETS instead try OVER government regulation, HIGH taxes and UNIONS…..they have PUSHED industry out of this country where the countries find other countries (china) for example with cheap labor and obviously LOWER standards of quality and dirt cheap work……can’t wait for the new chinese vaccines to hit the market….I’ll stand behind you in the line for the first shots ; )

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 11:40pm

      It’s AMAZZZZZZZZING HOW MATH & SCIENCE HAVE CHANGED SINCE I WAS IN SCHOOL!
      ***
      “Your enemies LOVE to see Americans at each others throat. MDDLE CLASS AMEICA is the 99% and they pay the lion share of taxes…not the 5%..that is just a blatant lie.”
      ***
      When I was in school, (the little 1 room school house had long been demolished.) You had 100% of something, THE MIDDLE WAS AT 50%, 99% WAS IN THE TOP 50%, AND LOWER WAS AT 49% AND UNDER WITH THAT KIND OF REASONING, THERE’S JUST NO WAY THE 99% CAN ALL BE MIDDLE CLASS. (For median income you would go to somewhere in the middle,) [BUT 99?????]

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  • RMcC
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:09pm

    Adam may have a potty mouth, but he is right. We have created a country of ‘Gimme’.Give me what I want, but I don’t want to work for it. My father used to tell me when I was growing up that life was not fair, if you wanted it you had to work for it. We raised out children under the same guidelines. They are good people, parents and children. But they work hard, do without when they have to and wait to get what they want when they have saved for it. Rare in these times to find kids in their late 20‘s and early 30’s that do that. They are raising their children to be the same way, so maybe if enough young adults learn this, there is hope for their generation yet.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:05pm

    Much better thank you.. I couldn’t listen to all of it yesterday,, the language was horrendous and I felt the spirit of the Holy Ghost move away from me listening to it.. He has it so right though.. God help us!

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  • ready_with_the_camping_food
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:57pm

    oh my god, that was great. Funny! I wish it was uncencored. The truth hurts, lol. But don’t listen to me, I’m just peon #27

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  • RightThinking1
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:55pm

    Nah. I prefer the unexpurgated version. I detest vulgarity and coarse expressions, yet I think that society is in such decay that a visceral expression of anger with the progressive mindset is merited.

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  • Greenie40
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:54pm

    Love it!! Potty mouth and all.

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  • gramma b
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:53pm

    “Thou shalt not covet” is a commandment for a very good reason.

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  • Kankokage
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:50pm

    I am opposed to the edited version of this exposition. There is no other way to get around the issue Adam is saying without the use of frequent, strong, and harsh language. To everything there is a season, and in this season harsh, uncensored reality is a necessary medicine. Teach the children to speak respectfully to one another – but when someone truly deserves it, let them have it and repent later. Repenting for foul language in the face of wickedness is far easier than repenting for being silent.

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  • Vet with Vendetta
    Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:43pm

    I didn’t know Adam leaned right. He has a poo mouth but he’s also got a point.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:52pm

      He has no point if he goes through all that song and dance to criticize his fellow countrymen for protesting, but has no words of criticism for the criminals at the Federal Reserve, the criminals at the gigantic crony banks, criminals in Washington, and the criminals in riot gear beating and abusing protestors. He is just a bandwagoning, bootlicking COWARD.

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    • liberty_for_all
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:52pm

      He lays it out in a great way, with a lot of potty words.

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    • Ethereal
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:16pm

      @V-MAN MACE
      He is speaking specifically of the entitlement crowd. Obviously if someone made themselves a success by cheating and stealing they should be prosecuted but because he didnt specifically say that you assume he is all for it? Do you need to be lead by the hand and explained every little thing? Whenever he spoke of the successes he also in the same breath spoke of working hard so why not give him the benefit of the doubt? You cant because in the libs eyes someone needs to be the villian to explain why you dont have what someone else has. Get used to real life my friend because there will always be the “haves” and the “have nots.“ There isnt one system on this planet where evryone is a ”have,“ just divisions of ”have nots.”

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    • kurtnut
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:25pm

      V-MAN MACE

      You didn’t do very well in reading comprehension in school, did you?

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:57pm

      Ethereal

      I’m not a liberal, I’m a Conservative Libertarian. Ok?

      There is a system on this planet where everyone is a “have”. It’s called freedom and liberty which leads to free market capitalism. What we have here is not free market capitalism . This is fiat paper-printing, give super loans to my giant banker buddies at impossibly low rates while I give gigantic rates to the peasants, crony capitalism.

      kurtnut

      How cute, you can spell “comprehension”. Sorry kid, I’m an english honors graduate who reads on par with professors and specialists in multiple fields. I’m a genius with an IQ of 172. Try again.

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