After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
AL FRANKENI’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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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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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