And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
AL FRANKENThere’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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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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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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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 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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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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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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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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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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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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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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