I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
AL FRANKENI do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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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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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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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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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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