A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
AL FRANKENThey’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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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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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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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