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.
AL FRANKENThe 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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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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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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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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