Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
AL FRANKENAnybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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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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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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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.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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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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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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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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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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