I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
AL FRANKENWhat you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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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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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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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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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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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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