Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
AL FRANKENI’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
More Al Franken Quotes
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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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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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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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.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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