And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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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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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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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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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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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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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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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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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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