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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 Franken

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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Ask Call Candidate Election Faith Finance Manage Money Need People Phone Public Renew Room Time
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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Anything Colleague Country Create Economy Interest Job Method More Possible Procedure Seem Struggle Using
My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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Home Important News Night Parent Political Really Very
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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Dad End Graduate Mom Print Real Salesman School
Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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Hear Look No President
I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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Believe Collect Go Information People Right Store
The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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Accurate Financial Job Objective Only Project Rating
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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Build Farm Guy Like Local National Rightwing Slowly Team
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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Administration Campaign Country Independent Investigation Relationship
Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Call Disinformation Disinfotain Entertain People Spread
Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Go Honest Kidding No Oh Really
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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Book Country Important Policy Political Public Transition Wrote
The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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Become Crash Drive Industry led Many Mortgage Part Practice Small Unfair
I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Career Entire Satirist Spent
There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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Between Book Comparision Hear Liar Lie People Propaganda
You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Adult Child Children Country Like Love Mean Mommy Somebody

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