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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.

Al Franken

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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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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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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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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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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