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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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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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’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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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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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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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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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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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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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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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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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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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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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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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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