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.
AL FRANKENThe 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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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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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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