Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
AL FRANKENI 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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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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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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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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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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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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