I don’t want the news to be patriotic. I don’t want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don’t want any of that.
AARON MCGRUDERI think revolution is always a little bit possible. I think it won’t look or sound anything like what we would expect. But I think revolution is very difficult, and I’m not optimistic for any kind of dramatic change.
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I do the interviews and then I read about myself. I understand it and I get what it is. But there’s so much stuff that I say, either jokingly or lightheartedly, that gets printed like I’m dead serious.
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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
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You can’t accuse the creator of The Boondocks, … Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I don’t think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.
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I think revolution is always a little bit possible. I think it won’t look or sound anything like what we would expect. But I think revolution is very difficult, and I’m not optimistic for any kind of dramatic change.
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You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
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And I’m not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there’s a difference in the people, and I had health care.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they’re gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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We don’t need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.
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The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.
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I really get a little bit confused by all this “angry angry angry” talk when all I do is tell jokes and at least some people find it funny.
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I’m actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.
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