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.
AL FRANKENAsking 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.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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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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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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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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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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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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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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