And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
AL FRANKENI’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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