Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
AL FRANKENWhat you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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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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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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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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