They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
AL FRANKENWe need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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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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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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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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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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