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Jon Lovett

American Producer

Born: Aug 17, 1982

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So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news. Jon Lovett

News People Care Journalist World-Class Interviewing Silly About Ideologues Understand Campaign Going Often Informing Help Help People Who Rejects

'Pod Save America' will be a kingmaker. Jon Lovett

Will America Save

Little things had to go wrong for Donald Trump to become president: Comey, emails, all that stuff. Big things did make Trump possible. Big, cultural, political, economic forces opened the door to someone like Trump. Jon Lovett

Little Things Political Big Become President Emails Possible Someone Economic Economic Forces Had Wrong Stuff Opened Like Make Forces Go Cultural Trump Did Donald Donald Trump Big Things Door Little Things

It doesn't matter what the early votes look like. It doesn't matter what the polls look like. We can lose everything. Jon Lovett

Matter Lose Everything Like Votes Look Polls Early

I had never really planned on being a speechwriter. Jon Lovett

Never Had Being Really Planned

'Veep' is a great satire of democracy. Jon Lovett

Great Democracy Satire

I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others. Jon Lovett

Politics People Ambition Help Others Others Most Help Reasons Desire

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative. Jon Lovett

Creative Comedy Mine Dream Write Always Been

As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There's an attraction to novelty and to anyone whose writing isn't based in screenwriting. I had that novelty. Jon Lovett

We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak. Jon Lovett

Lie Research Enough Imitation Corporate True Drowning True Enough Partisan Human Just Rhetoric Social Connection Media

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience. Jon Lovett

We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important. Jon Lovett

They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically. Jon Lovett

People Space Hurts Animals Politicians Else Everyone Everyone Else Only Shame Through Like Concept Occasionally Sort Left Susceptible Done Human Human Beings Them Beings Whom Away Last Basically

I could have continued being a speechwriter for as long as I wanted. Jon Lovett

Long Could Continue Being Wanted

'1600 Penn' was a hit. It's 2018. Anything you want can be true. Jon Lovett

You Be True Penn True Hit Want Anything

Most of my time at the White House, I wrote very unfunny speeches, but every year, I would work on the correspondents' dinner, which was a reminder of this other kind of writing that I loved to do. Jon Lovett

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