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.
AL FRANKENThere’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
More Al Franken Quotes
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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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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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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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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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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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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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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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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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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