As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
AL FRANKENHumor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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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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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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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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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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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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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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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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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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