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My dad was a terrible businessman.

Al Franken

My dad was a terrible businessman.
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Businessman Dad Terrible
They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Bedroom Government Keep Out Search Seizure Talk Unreasonable
There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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Coach Early Found Humor Indignation Little Mean Pulling Righteous Try
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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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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Demagoguery Else Mean On Put Radio Sell Something Station
The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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Accurate Financial Job Objective Only Project Rating
I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Civil Fight Liberal Like Right Tradition
We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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Back Have Need Pro-science Science
I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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Civic Engagement Grew Highest Minnesota Nation Participation Record Records Tradition Treasure Voter
He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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Career Essential Life Print Salesman Such Working
And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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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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Build Farm Guy Like Local National Rightwing Slowly Team
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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Agenda Also Bias Media Party Right Wing
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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