The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
AL FRANKENWhen the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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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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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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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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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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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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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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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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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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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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