That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
AL FRANKENI don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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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 might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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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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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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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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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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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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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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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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