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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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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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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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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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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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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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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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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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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