I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
AL FRANKENMy dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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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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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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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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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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The 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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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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