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Al Franken

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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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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Anybody Deliberate Held Lie Ridicule Scorn Should
To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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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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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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Bad Else Everone Itself News Our Democracy
My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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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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Bear Children Cook Country Do Focus Grandmother Pray Women
We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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