Mike Barnicle guest-hosted "Hardball" last night, although I didn't see him mention George Carlin's death in the part of the show I watched. Barnicle, you may remember, was fired from the Boston Globe in the late '90s for, among other offenses, plagiarizing Carlin's jokes in his columns. After watching Barnicle on TV for the last week doing a constant eulogy of his friend Tim Russert, funny to see him not mention Carlin at all.
Meanwhile, HBO will be re-running all of Carlin's specials in the next couple of weeks. That's a courtesy that I'm guessing won't be repeated when, say, Gallagher passes on.