I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
AL FRANKENTo 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.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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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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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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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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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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