As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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