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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

Al Franken

The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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Apparatus League Mirror Radio Right Team Wing Year
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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Art Artist Consider Craftsmen Myself Necessarily People Perform Sort Writing
At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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Axe Belief Felt Grind Left Out Own Political Snow Stuff Wrote
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
Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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Breath Cause Decline Each Enough Farm Hog Industrial Live Lucky People Property Value Vicinity
I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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Believe Collect Go Information People Right Store
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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Anticipate Century Coming Constitution Evolve Founder New Technology Way Written
And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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Indiscriminate Make Murder Point Political Terror
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Against Building Campaign Comedy During Nation President
I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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Being Comedian led People Pressure Producer Under
If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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Back Father Going Kind Person Policy President
that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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Actual Believe Effect Eventually Go Soldier Wrong
I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Less More Office Prison Spent Time Wish
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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Campaign Freedom Google Impeach Information Pledge Silicon Valley
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

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