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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.

Al Franken

I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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Fight Just Like Minnesotan Nice Root Sensible Twin Viking
I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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Ask Celebrity Couple Despite Fabulous Fresh Job Kep Month Once Seven Thing
Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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Advocate Country Experience Liberal Need Radio Stuff Train
That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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Arm Axis Central Country Exil Fund Mind Terrible Terrorist
My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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Did Estate Mom Part Real Sold Time
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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Campaign Career Certain Done People Political Really Satirist Senate Territory Thinking Unchanged
Whining is anger through a small opening.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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Comedian Deal Perform Pressure Stress Under
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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Anybody Deliberate Held Lie Ridicule Scorn Should
The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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Balance Book Conservative Discuss Disinformation Fair Just Lay Lie Like Look Movement News Out Slather
This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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Ago Felt Field Fundraiser Kill Learn Saw Schmuck Something Tell Well
Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Call Here Media Most
Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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Antitrust Business Compete Competition Each Other Law Protect
You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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