They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
AL FRANKENI think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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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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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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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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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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