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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers...Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.

Al Franken

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they're worried about declining home values, they're scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.
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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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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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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written Today I will masterbate--if I want to!
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My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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We know that the Russian's interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.
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