And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
AL FRANKENHe [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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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’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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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’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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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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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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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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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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