Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
AL FRANKENThe Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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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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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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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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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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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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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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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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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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