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Al Franken

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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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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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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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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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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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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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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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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The 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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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