Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
AL FRANKENHarvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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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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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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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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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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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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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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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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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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