I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
AL FRANKENI 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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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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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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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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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Compared 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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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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