I 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 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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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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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,
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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