To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
AL FRANKENI want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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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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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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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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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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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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