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It's difficult to overcome what you're getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making the country confused and bewildered and lost.

Aaron McGruder

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Aaron McGruder
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 29
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I don't know what the future holds. It seems to be going in a really bad, bad place really quickly, and I don't have the answers and I don't have the solutions and I don't know what's gonna happen to change it. But the continued apathy will only lead to a worse situation for everybody.
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You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.
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I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
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At least when I was young, in high school: Eh, voting doesn't mean nothing. You don't really know that to be true, you just say it. Then you get older, and responsible, and you go, Oh heck, let me vote. And then you vote and you go away. I was actually right when I was 16.
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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.
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The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.
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I really get a little bit confused by all this angry angry angry talk when all I do is tell jokes and at least some people find it funny.
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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