I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
AL FRANKENI grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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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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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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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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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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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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