My dad was a terrible businessman.
AL FRANKENDoes the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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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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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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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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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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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 think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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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 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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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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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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