It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
AL FRANKENTerrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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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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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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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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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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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 also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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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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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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