There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
AL FRANKENI do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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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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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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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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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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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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