There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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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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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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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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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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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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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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