To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
AL FRANKENI’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
More Al Franken Quotes
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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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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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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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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