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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.

Al Franken

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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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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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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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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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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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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