Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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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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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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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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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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