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.
AL FRANKENDemagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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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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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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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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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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