Al Franken
Truth,
and a Truth Telling Person
That Tells the Truth
Advice
When you encounter seemingly good advice that
contradicts other seemingly good advice,
ignore them both.
Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
Al Franken
I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and
dog-gone it, people like me.
Al Franken, Saturday Night Live
Freedom Of Speech
"I'm neutral in this race but I'm for freedom
of speech, which means people should be able
to assemble and speak without being
shouted down."
Al Franken
Fox
"And by the way, a few months ago, I
trademarked the word 'funny.' So when Fox
calls me 'unfunny,' they're violating my
trademark. I am seriously considering a
countersuit."
Al Franken, responding to Fox's copyright
infringement suit over Franken's use of the
words "fair and balanced" in the title of
his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who
Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at
the Right.
George W. Bush
This president hasn't asked anyone affluent
to sacrifice anything. Hasn't asked a thing
of us, except maybe "to stay alert. The
President took a surplus and made it into a
deficit, took a surplus of goodwill, made
that into a deficit. And who sacrifices?
The troops in Iraq, the people on the bottom
are losing medicade, jobs.
No child left behind is the most ironically
named piece of legislation since the 1942
Japanese Family Leave Act.
Al Franken
Nov 19, 2003 speech at the University of
Missouri-Columbia
Media
The biases the media has are much bigger than
conservative or liberal. They're about
getting ratings, about making money, about
doing stories that are easy to cover.
Al Franken, "Lies and the Lying Liars who
Tell Them", 2003
Mistakes
Mistakes are a part of being human.
Appreciate your mistakes for what they are:
precious life lessons that can only be
learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal
mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
Newt Gingrich
He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular
politician in America. His favorable rating
is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
Al Franken
Source:BQ
Reagan
I think if you're going to do a movie about
Reagan you do it about the fact that he
created the huge deficit, that he armed the
mujahadeen, that he armed Saddam, that he
armed Iran, he armed 2/3s of the Axis of Evil,
he funded terrorists in Central America,
he was in my mind a terrible president.
Al Franken
Rush Limbaugh
"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
The reason I chose Limbaugh is first of all,
when I made the decision, it was late '94,
right before the Congressional elections.
He was this huge power, he was being called
the "Majority Maker." He was made an honorary
member of the Republicans' freshman class.
They certainly deserve each other. And I
listened to him, I just listened to him.
And I thought, how does this guy get away with this?
This guy can't be allowed to get away with
this. Someone's got to do something's that
funny. Someone's got to do something in his
face. We let Limbaugh speak for himself.
Al Franken
SALON Interview
Rush Limbaugh Being Fat
Oh no, it's obviously how his disease manifests
itself, any kind of substance dependency is
very deep, issues of self esteem, you can just
tell that he's a really insecure and
vulnerable person -- and I love him.
You know, sometimes I listen to him on the
radio, and he's very judgmental, he's a very
angry person, and I just want to remind him
that anytime you have a finger pointing at
someone else, there's three pointing back
at you.
Al Franken
SALON Interview
Rush Limbaugh and Drug Abuse
Drug war, well, as Rush Limbaugh said, Anyone
who uses drugs illegally should be prosecuted
and put away I don't agree with him, I think
they should be treated, but that's what Rush
believes and so, you know, we're praying for
Rush because he's in recovery and you take
responsibilities for your actions so I'm sure
any day now Rush will demand to be put away
for the maximum sentence and ask for the most
dangerous prison and we'll be praying for
maybe and African American cellmate who saw
the Donavon McNabb comments on ESPN.
So we're prayin'.
Al Franken
Sean Hannity
I said that Sean Hannity took residence up
Newt Gingrich's butt from 94 to 98. I got
that from British intelligence. It turns out
he only took up residence in 95.
Al Franken
Source:World Of Quotes
If you watched Hannity and Colmes during the
war, it was hilarious. Hannity would, every
day, be saying that Democrats were undermining
the President by criticizing the Commander in
Chief with criticisms that were so either
nonexistent or mild. Whereas, Hannity, if you
went back and looked at what he was saying
during Kosovo, was attacking Clinton in the
harshest terms every day. Hannity deliberately
meant to undermine Clinton by saying he's not
following his advisors, we're running out of
ammunition, he doesn't know what he's doing.
He was allowing guests to come on and say this
is the worst planned military operation in
history, and he'd nod, and say, "Um-hmm."
Al Franken
Source:L
Slippers
It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet
the whole world.
Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'
The O'Franken Factor
"There's no liberal echo chamber in this
country. There's a right-wing echo chamber. I
want to create a countervailing echo chamber."
Al Franken
Source:Chicago Tribune
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