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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

Al Franken

And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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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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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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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.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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 can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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