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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 think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.
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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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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
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Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.
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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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Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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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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Don't get me wrong, it definitely ain't the Democratic Party either. They're so bad, I mean I'm actually starting to believe that John Kerry was just token resistance, that he literally was down with George W.Bush. It was just such a horrible, horrible, horrible thing to see, that campaign. So, you know, I don't know what's going on.
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I think the two-party system is a complete sham I think it is designed so that the voters can feel like they have the satisfaction of throwing those bums out of office every four to eight years, but without the direction of the country ever significantly changing.
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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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I'm not crazy impressed with New York. I mean, I don't buy into that whole thing: Everyone in New York is all sophisticated, and they're into art and sophisticated things, and everyone in L.A. is just shallow entertainment people. I think people are just shallow across the board.
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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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Whether the Republicans intentions are good or evil - I pretty much assume that they're evil - but no matter what, man, when the people in charge make giant mistakes, everyone suffers. Even if they do have good intentions, when you make giant mistakes, it's a bad thing.
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I guess I was a conspiracy theorist when I said no weapons in Iraq. Now they call that history.
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I'm actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.
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But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.
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I do the interviews and then I read about myself. I understand it and I get what it is. But there's so much stuff that I say, either jokingly or lightheartedly, that gets printed like I'm dead serious.
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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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Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.
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