Editing Seven dirty words (section)

==Background==
During a performance in 1966, comedian [[Lenny Bruce]] said he had been arrested for saying nine words: "[[buttocks|ass]]", "[[testicles|balls]]", "[[wikt:cocksucker|cocksucker]]", "[[cunt]]", "[[fuck]]", "[[motherfucker]]", "[[wikt:piss|piss]]", "[[shit]]", and "[[wikt:tits|tits]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070302/ |title=The Lenny Bruce Performance Film |website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=February 18, 2014}}</ref>  In 1972, comedian [[George Carlin]] released his fourth stand-up album ''[[Class Clown]]''. One track on the album, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", was a monologue in which he identified these words and expressed amazement that they could not be used regardless of context. In a 2004 [[NPR]] interview, he said:

{{cquote|I don't know that there was a "Eureka!" moment or anything like that. [...] On these other things, we get into the field of hypocrisy. Where you really cannot pin down what these rules they want to enforce are. It's just impossible to say "this is a blanket rule". You'll see some newspapers print "f ''blank blank'' k". Some print "f ''asterisk asterisk'' k". Some put "f ''blank blank blank''". Some put the word "[[Bleep censor|bleep]]". Some put "[[expletive deleted]]". So there's no real consistent standard. It's not a science. It's a notion that they have and it's superstitious. These words have no power. We give them this power by refusing to be free and easy with them. We give them great power over us. They really, in themselves, have no power. It's the thrust of the sentence that makes them either good or bad.<ref Name="NPR-2004">{{cite interview |last=Carlin |first=George |author-link=George Carlin |interviewer=[[Terry Gross]] |title=Comedian and Actor George Carlin |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4136881 |work=[[National Public Radio]] |date=November 1, 2004}}</ref>}}

Carlin was arrested for [[disturbing the peace]] when he performed the routine at a show at [[Summerfest]] in [[Milwaukee]] in 1972. On his next album, 1973's ''[[Occupation: Foole]]'', he performed a similar routine titled "Filthy Words", dealing with the same list and many of the same themes. [[Pacifica Radio|Pacifica]] station [[WBAI]] broadcast this version of the routine uncensored on October 30 that year.