They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
AL FRANKENYou 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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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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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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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 know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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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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