And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
AL FRANKENAt ‘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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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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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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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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