And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
AL FRANKENThere’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
More Al Franken Quotes
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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