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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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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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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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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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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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