Paul Kantner on Politically Incorrect, Part II
Here's a brief excerpt from Paul Kantner's
7 May 1999 appearance on Politically Incorrect.
Just about the only bit that was interesting, as a matter
of fact. And my apologies to Kennedy, who I described as
"vapid" in MFOB #6. She actually gets off
some nice lines, see below.
TV: Tom Vitton
PK: Paul Kantner
BM: Bill Maher
KX: Kennedy
TV: Well I don't think that it's any coincidence that you see
the breakdowns in society and it coincides with the breakdown
in respect for the institution of marriage. (applause)
PK: Society has broken down!
TV: Marriage is the basis of society, and the attack on marriage...
PK: According to who?
TV: It's reality, it's reality.
PK: Whose reality? It's your reality!
TV: It's God's reality and it's human's reality!
PK: I disagree.
BM: God's reality?
KX: You know what? I just want to get...
PK: What's this God stuff? Did you see George Carlin on God?
This guy in the sky that everybody believes in, who loves
you but will send you to hell to all eternity.
TV: I don't look to George Carlin for my theology.
I look to the Bible.
PK: But you should, perhaps. There's a certain reality
to George, when dealing with this God business, and if
you think about it, if I could I'd light up a cigarette...
KX: I'd just wanted to register for some (unintelligible).
PK: But God has killed more people than cigarettes,
drugs and alcohol every year - with religious wars,
with people who take their cudgels and their anti-abortion guns,
and kill people in the name of God. I would suggest
that God is something to be suspect, and something to be
looked deeply into. And you might go to the point of putting
a warning label on the Bible.
BM: Not God, but the way people interpret God.
PK: Huh? Of course, okay. That's all we're left with.
You haven't met God. Nobody in this room has met God.
Nobody, that I know of, has been spoken to directly by God.
KX: I have! I met Brad Pitt, and boy! He's enough
to get implants for, if you know what I'm saying.
BM: (Laughs) Pretty close to God, is that what you're saying?
KX: No!
TV: Well, again, frankly it's this sort of mocking
of God that leads to the problems we have, and obviously, you know...
PK: Bring Him on! I call in my prayers every night and say,
"God, if you're there, please talk to me. I'm your son."
KX: Who do you pray to when you have, like, food poisoning?
PK: I don't pray to anybody, I go to the doctor.
KX: Well, the doctor ain't gonna...
PK: The doctor does a lot better than the synagogue when
I get food poisoning.
KX: But when you're vomiting, and you have diarrhea
splattered all over...
PK: God does not help.
KX: "O please O God O please help dear Lord please help
O yes Amen. I will never eat A&W hot dogs ever again I swear!"
PK: There you go! Now don't eat the hot dogs. But God's
not gonna help you.
KX: It was a vision.
Politically Incorrect, ABC, 7 May 99