And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
AL FRANKENHe didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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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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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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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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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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