Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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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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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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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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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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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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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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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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