Whining is anger through a small opening.
AL FRANKENI ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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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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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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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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You 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.
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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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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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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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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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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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