I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
AL FRANKENCompared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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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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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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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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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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