I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
AL FRANKENI 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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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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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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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