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.
AL FRANKENMost Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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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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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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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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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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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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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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