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.
AL FRANKENI mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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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 hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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