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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.

Al Franken

Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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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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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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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 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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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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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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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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