They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
AL FRANKENThe 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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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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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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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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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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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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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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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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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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