Carlin doesn't seem to disapprove terribly of the FCC's right to regulate what is said on TV or radio. "The thing is a commercial swamp, so anyone who gets into that -- a morning disc jockey or late-night television show or anything -- has entered into a sort of a silent agreement to abide by what they need to sell their baby food and their tires.... I never went [on 'The Tonight Show'] trying to change their rules or assert my rights of some kind." Muzzling radio's Bubba the Love Sponge is not the same as controlling political speech, "but it is part of, perhaps, a slippery slope," Carlin says.
