I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
AL FRANKENI can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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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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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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