There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
AL FRANKENProgressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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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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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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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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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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