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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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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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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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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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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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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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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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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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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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