We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
AL FRANKENThe way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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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 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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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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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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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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