If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
AL FRANKENI’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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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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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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