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.
AL FRANKENI think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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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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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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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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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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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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