If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
AL FRANKENThe news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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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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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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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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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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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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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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