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 FRANKENI also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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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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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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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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