No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
AL FRANKENI had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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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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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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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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I 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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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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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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