Legendary columnist Molly Ivins, 62, dies.
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Legendary columnist Molly Ivins, 62, dies.
“Molly Ivins, whose biting columns mixed liberal populism with an irreverent Texas wit, died at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at her home in Austin after an up-and-down battle with breast cancer she had waged for seven years. She was 62.” From her final column, published January 12, 2007:
We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we’re for them and trying to get them out of there.
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Rest in peace, Molly.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:07 pmWonderful woman. We will miss her.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:08 pmRest in peace Molly. Your wit and humor helped us all be able to suffer through shrub’s rule and gave us the courage to stand up to idiots in power. We will all miss you.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:11 pmArt Buchwald and Molly Ivins are gone, yet the likes of Robert Novak and John Gibson remain. Liberal media bias, my butt.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:11 pmMolly lost her battle with cancer today and a wonderful voice has fallen silent.
My hope is that her legacy will be an inspiration to young journalists to get it right and to do so smartly and spirited.
I first had the opportunity to hear her in an Audiobook about the Texas political landscape and instantly admired her.
she will be missed and I hope someone will be inspired to become like her
January 31st, 2007 at 7:13 pmGod Bless her soul
January 31st, 2007 at 7:13 pmGodspeed, Molly. You had passion and style. I will miss you!
January 31st, 2007 at 7:13 pmIt’s time to be relentless in getting the message out. Hang banners on freeway overpasses during rush hour, stand at the entrance to malls with signs, etc. Molly is right, one march in DC isn’t nearly enough.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:13 pmWe will miss your bravery and your intelligence Molly ! God bless you for having such a wonderful sense of humor !
January 31st, 2007 at 7:15 pmWe have lost a Texas Rose.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:18 pmRest in peace Molly. You have been my inspiration for years.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:20 pmShe was more Texan than Shrub ever will be. May all your xmas tamales be delivered to hevean Darlin.Descanse En Paz
January 31st, 2007 at 7:20 pmDamn, I’m going to miss her. And I won’t even mention traitor Novak. Honest.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:21 pmGod Bless Molly Ivins. What an example she was for all of us in these dark days. If all of us raised just a little “hell”, BushCo would be out on it’s ASS in the blink of an eye.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:23 pm#4 badmoon
January 31st, 2007 at 7:27 pmSadly, there is a reason that the saying goes, “the good die young.”
To surely be sorely missed. Rest in peace.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:27 pmWe will miss you Molly!! Enjoy the incredible lightness of being, now!!
January 31st, 2007 at 7:28 pmRest in peace Molly. Thank you for your words and inspiration. God bless.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:28 pmMolly lived real close to my house, she was a wonderful person and well loved here in Austin. We in Austin and the rest of the world will miss her and her wonderfull wit.
I have listened to her speak many times here locally and always loved her column.
My heartfelt wishes to her family.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:30 pmI’m so sorry to hear of the loss of Molly. I respect her work and will sadly miss her wonderful sense of humor.
Rest in peace, Molly. You made a difference!
January 31st, 2007 at 7:34 pmFarewell Molly, we’ll miss you.
-GSD
January 31st, 2007 at 7:35 pmGoodbye Molly. You were a great soul.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:36 pm… a great loss… i feel i was just getting to know her…
she will be missed…
here is a wonderful project that many here could pursue…
…also, bittersweet…notice the date…
probably more info at http://www.thenation.com/
Editorial: A Tribute for Molly Ivins
By Becky O’Malley (01-30-07)
The news over the weekend was not good. Molly Ivins, everyone’s favorite smart-mouth columnist, was back in the hospital for the third time, dealing with her raging cancer, which started in her breasts but now has spread throughout her body. Last fall, she was in San Francisco on a panel at a conference of journalism educators, and she didn’t look well then, wan, thin, wearing a bold hat to cover up the loss of most of her hair. Her tongue was as sharp as ever, of course, causing a roomful of ordinarily sincere and cautious academics to shriek with laughter before giving her a standing ovation.
Since then she’s continued to write as much as she could, devoting an increasing portion of her limited energy to castigating the fools in Washington (and she’s never suffered fools gladly) for continuing the war in Iraq. A sample pronouncement, early this year: “The president of the United States doesn’t have the sense God gave a duck. So it’s up to us. You and me.†In that column she promised that “This will be a regular feature of mine, like an old-fashioned newspaper campaign. Every column, I’ll write about this war until we find some way to end it…every time, we’ll review some factor we should have gotten right.â€
But since then she’s only managed to write one more column. That one ran on Jan. 11 and opposed George Bush’s proposed “surge†escalation of the war.
[…]
And now it really is up to us. While Molly is sick, the rest of us will have to carry her “old-fashioned newspaper campaign†forward.
With that in mind, the Berkeley Daily Planet is hereby launching what we might call the “Molly Ivins Festschrift.†A festschrift is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a volume of writings by different authors presented as a tribute or memorial especially to a scholar.†Academics are wont to create festschrifts on the occasion of a revered colleague’s 60th birthday, for example. Molly’s already 62, but no time like the present to catch up with what we should have done two years ago. And we might call it festschrift if we could reliably remember how to spell or pronounce that German word, but let’s just call it the Molly Ivins Tribute Project.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:40 pm[…]
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/ article.cfm?issue=01-30-07&storyID=26216
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Heaven has received a new angel.
May you be, and are, with yours and us always.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:41 pmRaise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we’re for them and trying to get them out of there.
I’ll remember your words, Miss Molly.
See ya on the other side — keep ‘em laughing until I get there.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:43 pmAnother good soul is gone. Vaya Con Dios. Descansa en paz. Adios Amiga Liberal–de parte de sus amigos en Nuevo Mexico.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:47 pmR.I.P. Molly, we will miss you.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:47 pmMalccomb, another compassionate conservative rears his ugly head to smear the recently departed.
I would expect nothing less from the Rove Party.
-GSD
January 31st, 2007 at 7:50 pma true texan and a damn fine woman. always made me smile when i read her words and she never failed to speak truth to power. like fellow austinites poi dog pondering sang “if you’re ever around when someone dies, look up and wave, they’ll get a big kick out of this.”
January 31st, 2007 at 7:51 pm*waves*
How very sad. She’s been my favorite for a while. What a loss for our country.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:53 pmHer actions ripple out like a fountain in a lake.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:54 pmWe are all touched by her, learned from her.
She is immortal in us.
poi dog pondering sang “if you’re ever around when someone dies, look up and wave, they’ll get a big kick out of this.â€
*waves*
Comment by dubthach — January 31, 2007 @ 7:51 pm
I love that song. Great lyrics and I’m sure Molly appreciates it. But Poi Dog is from Hawaii.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:55 pmWe’ll miss you, Molly.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:57 pmZooey; you DID see me at the DC rally. I was just left of the left scaffold in the front, ringside seat. Go to unitedforpeace, click on video/photo-go to page 9, photo by amazin’ jane. see strip photo of 3 vets. I’m the one with the shades and boonie hat, really.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:57 pmWent on a “white water” rafting trip with her & 10 other powerful women (Donna Shalala, Carol Bellamy, Alice Rivlin, author of Slapshot, etc.) with a guide service, O.A.R.S., in 1980. Middle Salmon River, I think. It was August, so there wasn’t much white water. We requested all women guides; they sent 3 (one was a trainee), but the fourth was a man. We were just as obnoxious to him as you can imagine. It was a great 5 day (I think) trip–wonderful food, like fresh guacamole for lunch. Saw mink swimming behind raft. I and another fell in on the first rapids. It was tough competition for speaking space, but Molly got it more often than most because she was funny as well as smart.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:03 pmZooey; left-2-right; a WWII vet in ball cap & white beard, center- clean shaven vet in a beret, then me boonie cap, shades, camo jacket looking left.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:05 pmI’m the one with the shades and boonie hat, really.
Comment by Uncle_Ho
Hi, Uncle Ho! Nice to put a face to the name — you look very much like I had pictured you. :)
Did you have fun?
January 31st, 2007 at 8:07 pmWith a heavy heart, I wrote an obituary or eulogy or whatever you want to call it for her. I was picking up pizza when I heard the news on the restaurant’s TV. I felt as if I was hit on the gut with a sledgehammer. I knew that it looked bad for her but some part of me wanted to believe that she’d pull through.
It’s gonna take a day or two for me to recover from this. Damn, what a loss to our cause.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:07 pmjurissicpork,
That was a great tribute and farewell.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:12 pmZooey; yup lots of fun. Another demonstration March 17 in DC.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:16 pmAnother demonstration March 17 in DC.
Comment by Uncle_Ho
Cool. It will be bigger!
My son was at a demonstration in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (where he goes to school), and almost got arrested. I tell ya, when you’re having war protests in reddest Idaho, that really tells you something — did you hear that Chimpy?
January 31st, 2007 at 8:23 pmi wonder if she and ann richards were friendly…
January 31st, 2007 at 8:25 pmnow wouldn’t that be a hoot! :)
In my mothers vernacular Molly Ivins was an SOB. That stood for “Salty Old Broad”. It was the highest compliment my mom could pay anyone, and that was why Molly was her favorite journalist. Molly didn’t put up with fools and she called it like she saw it. Here in Texas we need more voices like hers, may she continue to raise hell even in heaven.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:29 pmBless your heart, Molly. Give ‘em hell.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:32 pmBless you Molly Ivins. The quote from her last column–in the article above–has the advise that we must all follow. Molly said “We are the Deciders.” She told all of us to do something each and every day to stop Bush’s War in Iraq. She said, “Raise Hell.” Do not be satisfied with the media spin of White House diversions–like Bush’s trips to Wall Street today or to Peoria yesterday (yee haw on a tractor where he almost ran over the press corps).
This great country of ours needs to reaffirm our Constitution and democratic values in the name of the one & only Molly Ivins. We all owe her a great debt of gratitude for her gutsy columns.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:33 pmZooey, I could not toss my medals back to the Congress, the Capitol building was blocked off, so I make a quick pilgrimage to the Vietnam wall and left them at the name of a friend killed in Nam. A very brief visit at the wall (20 minutes) I had to catch the subway back for my bus for the return trip to Michigan.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:39 pmRest in Peace, Mrs. Ivins you will be missed. You were my hero. Thank you and again, you will be missed.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:41 pmKaty, from what I’ve read I think they were. God must be wondering right about about now what in the world has hit heaven. And Jurrasicpork, that was a wonderful read. Thank you! Now, if only I can stop weeping.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:49 pmI knew we might not hear from her again after the news broke of her re-entering the hospital.
We just lost one of the greatest minds from Texas, but we gained a new star in the Heavens.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:52 pmLegendary columnist Molly Ivins, 62, dies
Another cog in the left wind media bias machine has jumped the pulley.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:57 pmPerhaps one day very soon the whole machine will blow up.
Zooey, I could not toss my medals back to the Congress, the Capitol building was blocked off, so I make a quick pilgrimage to the Vietnam wall and left them at the name of a friend killed in Nam.
Comment by Uncle_Ho
That seems more fitting, Uncle Ho.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:58 pmTake care.
RIP Molly. You lifelong leftwing media shill.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:59 pmOh my god! I did not hear anything about this. Last I heard, she had cancer and that was a couple of weeks ago. I figured that was why I didn’t find her usual column in our Sunday paper. She will be sorely missed here on Earth, what with her no nonsense approach and calling a spade a spade every time. Might as well just stop reading the paper altogether now! She was a mighty woman who inspired admiration and we will miss her greatly. Rest in peace Molly.
January 31st, 2007 at 9:03 pmUnfortunately, new, young journalists are unlikely to learn from the wonderful example of Molly Ivins because MSM is laying off their journalists and turning the ones they have into copy editors.
The market fundamentalists have as their first loyalty, of course, increasing profits, not being fair and unbiased, protecting freedom of speech, or paying for expensive journalistic detective work. Besides, hiring journalists tacitly encourages freedom of speech, and that could mean that corporations themselves could be investigated. We can’t have that. It is much safer to stifle dissent in the name of higher stock prices for our board of directors.
Molly can inspire us to be better, more responsible blogging journalists, whoever and wherever we are.
January 31st, 2007 at 9:14 pmWell said, DieNowForPeace.
January 31st, 2007 at 9:14 pmSee Molly Ivins at her satirical best in a video called The Dildo Diaries…here:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
January 31st, 2007 at 9:35 pmFarewell to a beautiful lady and courageous being.
January 31st, 2007 at 9:37 pmRest in peace Molly.
This is my column on Molly Ivins for tomorrow:
My Fond Memories Of Molly Ivins
Ist of February 2007
by Jay Randal
The columnist Molly Ivins passed away last night, at age 62, and she will be truely missed by all those who read her columns, who enjoyed her prickly prose and biting sarcastic wit, who relished her political views.
Only Ivins knew how to expose the foibles of George W. Bush, with a graceful humorous panache of facts, and would skewer Shrub with gleeful tirades of truth.
Before her untimely death she desired to see the Iraq Fiasco War ended, and the troops brought back home to their loved ones, but she died knowing the conflict must end and that it’s wrong Pres. Bush Junior did it.
Years ago I contacted her to please write a column or two about Haiti, about President Aristide being overthrown by a military coup in 1991, and she wrote one.
I am glad that I got to talk with her, because as writer myself I admired Ivins a lot, and I sent her numerous Faxes about Haiti’s problems, Bush Senior’s hate for Aristide, and other political things of merit back then, so Molly here is my personal tribute to a gifted writer.
( Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Georgia, USA.)
January 31st, 2007 at 10:46 pmMolly made me proud to be an American. RIP, Molly Ivins.
January 31st, 2007 at 10:59 pmWow, the trolls’ vitriol know no limits. It is no wonder the electorate has rejected their hateful, ignorant platform. Respect is not in their vocabulary. Neither, apparently, is truth.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:02 pmA real class act, not one to dance on the graves of her adversaries like some of the “classy” have demonstrated here.
Rest easy, Texan.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:03 pmMolly Ivins had an irretractile sense of progessive ideals and a whit that even Kurt Vonnegut would find exemplary. She was a powerful voice and will be sorely missed.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:11 pmClinton didn’t get us mired in a war we shouldn’t be in. One were over 3,000 brave Americans and over 100,000 helpless Iraqis have died. And as far Ms. Ivins being your better; she was. Unlike you she spoke power to truth. Something I think you have no aquaintence with.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:31 pmMolly, say hello to Mike Royko for me.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:33 pmR.I.P Ms. Ivins,
I didn’t always agree with your politics, but I did admire your honesty and your willingness to admit when you were wrong:
“In a column written June 28, I asserted that more Iraqis (civilians) had now been killed in this war than had been killed by Saddam Hussein over his 24-year rule. WRONG. Really, really wrong.
The only problem is figuring out by how large a factor I was wrong. I had been keeping an eye on civilian deaths in Iraq for a couple of months, waiting for the most conservative estimates to creep over 20,000, which I had fixed in my mind as the number of Iraqi civilians Saddam had killed.
There have been estimates as high as 1 million civilians killed by Saddam, though most agree on the 300,000 to 400,000 range, making my comparison to 20,000 civilian dead in this war pathetically wrong.”
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1/2005/1194
January 31st, 2007 at 11:40 pmThanks for that Exley. Has a conservative writer admitted when they were wrong? Don’t say they haven’t been because we both know you’d be lying and that would cheapen anything you wrote. So could you go check for that same moral integrity that Molly had shown?
Thanks
January 31st, 2007 at 11:44 pmHey Michael, give it a rest . By now your venom sacks probably need a refill and I’m sure your fangs need to be sharpened. Probably a little dull.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:49 pmmichael, here’s a link that shows the offical reported Iraqi civilian deaths since this conflict began.
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
The low is 55,000 reported and the high is over 60,000 reported. So if you don’t want to stretch that 40,000 haven’t been reported fine. there have been over 55,000 reported civilian deaths in Iraq since our occupation.
I notice you don’t respond to my questions but jump on the “easy” ones. You haven’t answered yet michael, was there or was there not an Iraqi purchase of yellow cake uranium from Niger? Was there or was there not mobile chemical labs in Iraq? Is there or is there not sufficient weapondry and armor for the current troops in Iraq?
January 31st, 2007 at 11:53 pmI think Molly would like us all to have a beer, or pitcher, give a Red River cattle drive yell, and accurately expose the antics of a self-dealing politician. (The latter might be redundant, but Molly was an optimist.) Let ‘er rip. And, thank you, Molly. Adieu.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:04 amYour answer to the yellow cake question:Don’t know for sure! Neither do you. But what we do know is that Hussein’s representative went there prior to our invasion. To vacation? Michael, it is known for sure. Bush and Iraq: Follow the Yellow Cake Road
Our own US intelligence debunked it.
your answer to mobile labs: es, they probably have been moved to Syria prior to our invasion. Sure, and Bush did report for duty in the reserves. Your answer is a kid’s argument and you forgot that we had captured one of the mobile labs only to find out it wasn’t and there isn’t.
your answer to sufficient weapons and armor for the troops:I don’t know, do you?
You really don’t read this website do you mikey. Just earlier today “ An audit by the Pentagon’s Inspector General released to Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) shows that U.S. soldiers have had to go without the necessary weapons, armor, vehicles, and equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan:
Of course you win all the arguments in michaelland because your the mayor of your own mind.
I’m going to stick with spineless jellyfish and not very good at the whole debating your point thing either.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:04 amDid I write 650,000. No don’t believe I did but you’ll attribute it to me. Can attribute Cheney shooting his buddy in the face to you? Or were you the one that wanted Bush to let all the doctors know he wanted them to practice their love with their patients. Yeah, that was you.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:07 amThe link didn’t take earlier. Here’s the yellow cake road for your enjoyment michael
The yellow cake road.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:09 amone more time http://www.time.com/ time/ columnist/ karon/ article/ 0,9565,463779,00.html
February 1st, 2007 at 12:10 amBush Echoes Biden: Obama Is ‘An Attractive Guy, He’s Articulate’
And probably might have been President had the Clintons not Madrassaed his ass early on.
I love a President who tells it like it is.
DudCity TP. Don`t you have anything better to write about?
TP? You are PART of the Obama Madrassa assassination.
It is like we witnessed the Kennedy assassination all over again in the 21st century without a shot being fired this time.
Obama is quite literally dead political weight. His political career is over.
I mean c`mon, who can honestly forget about the name Osama?
Anymore all someone has to do is murmur the word Obama and right away the name Osama comes to mind.
This circumstance of Osama the terrorist and Obama the politician sounding similiar has just got to be FATE and KARMA.
This word association game of Osama and Obama was played out to a T by Hillary Clintoin and her gang, with your help of course.
I mean after all, this very blog is a Soros funded, Clinton leaning blog.
Some even have called it `Hillarys Personal Blog` when it was founded.
Don`t believe me?
Search yourself.
google- center american progress clinton thinktank
Report back and let me know what you find.
And maybe next time,?
KNOW what kind of a blog you are commenting on BEFORE you comment.
This is a T.H.I.N.K.T.A.N.K.
Get it?
Not a political rally site.
Unless of course you want to sing the praises of Hillary Clinton.
That is acceptable here.
You all have contributed either knowingly or unknowingly to Hillary`s Presidential bid, along with Obama`s political downfall.
Oh the sad irony.
With Obama the Clinton target.
And you folks are the unwitting participants in an unmolested character assassination of Obama at the hands of Clinton and her very own T.H.I.N.T.A.N.K……..ThinkProgress.
Nice work on assassinating the next would be John F Kennedy.
Proud of yourselves?
You fools.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:12 ammichael, I’ve been trying to find a pro bush Iraqi civilian death count site but it’s as hard to find that as a webcam in iraq. Maybe there’s one in michaelland and you could share. Pleeeeeeease?
February 1st, 2007 at 12:13 amthat’s right. The US doesn’t do body counts. hmmmm. wonder why?
February 1st, 2007 at 12:15 am#90 Hellinabucket,
“One can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed…Our mission has failed because Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an invading army of 130,000 Americans.”
William F. Buckley, Feb. 24, 2006
February 1st, 2007 at 12:17 amm&m has figured us out. I guess there’s nothing left for us to do. We’ll be quiet now and listen to your wisdom. Are you sure about the whole character assasination of Obama and all? I mean if it stays out in the news it will also come out about how much of a devout christian he has been for the last 20 years and that just might undercut the whole “madrassa” thing down. if you haven’t been among the “thinking” people lately you might have missed it. The country is pretty fed up with the old swiftboat slander hit and run bs. With billions being spent and thousands dying and all the country wants answers that haven’t been coming from the WhiteHouse yet. They’ve caught on to Rove and company and seeing how his name is being brought up more in the libby trial along with Cheney and even Bush today those same old games are flying.
But we’ll listen to you because you have the ability to change your moniker while still not saying anything.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:23 ammichael, now your just being dumb. The Pentagon’s Inspector General isn’t Billy Bob down the street and the link in the earlier thread is the actual document from his office. Not a liberal website but the Pentagon and you don’t believe it. Then you have nothing. Children can hold themselves better in an argument than you.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:31 amthanks for the reminder Exley. Here’s something more from William F. Buckley. One can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. Feb. 24th 2006.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:36 am“Molly made me proud to be an Americanâ€
Don’t you mean anti American?
Comment by michael
Michael,
February 1st, 2007 at 12:37 amThe Constitution of the United States upholds the idea of free speech. Thomas Jefferson, a far greater man than you will ever be, said that “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” You and people of your ilk who would deny free speech and dissent to American citizens are the true anti-Americans.
BTW, the Swiftboat Veterans for (Non)Truth’s lies about Kerry have already been debunked several times over. I don’t know what you have against Cleland and Murtha, but it doesn’t say much for you that you denigrate decorated former militarymen just because they don’t agree with (Daddy-got-me-to-jump-ahead-of-100s-of-others-on-the Texas-National-Guard-waiting-list) Dumbya and five-deferment Dickhead
I will repeat you are very anti-American!
So what your saying michael is that Obama is risking it all by feigning his involvment with the church (and I’ll use your brilliant retort to your own BS and prove that he doesn’t go to church) and possibly getting killed by the “devout muslims” so he can get to the Whitehouse and unleash his unholy muslim hell on this country.
I’ll use your level of argument. No and so what and prove it and you don’t know that and Sez you and my personal favorite, your mamma.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:41 amHellinabucket,
Actually, look at my posting #108 again. That quote you cite is right there.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:44 ammy apologies Exley. I was looking for this one.
http://www.nationalreview.com/ buckley/ buckley200406291207.asp
one of my personal favorites from the Buckster
February 1st, 2007 at 12:48 amMolly Ivins and Cindy Sheehan were lesbian lovers a woman in Beaumont Texas is reporting today.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:02 am“Make our troops know we’re for themâ€
How? By accusing them of torture? By accusing them of flushing the Koran down the toilet? By accusing them of terrorizing women and children in the middle of the night? By telling them they are stuck there because they are dumb? By revealing our intelligence gathering methods? By revealing our secret prisons? By forging documents about our President? The troops aren’t stupid. They know you don’t support them and their mission. You liberals can’t even pick believable military heroes, hence Kerry, Murtha, and Cleland! The troops know you aren’t sincere and so do you! And I’ll keep reminding you!
Comment by michael — January 31, 2007 @ 10:48 pm
By accusing them of torture?By accusing them of flushing the Koran down the toilet? By accusing them of terrorizing women and children in the middle of the night? We hold ourselves to a higher standard and our military does the same. There has been torture commited so it’s way past accusing them.
By revealing our secret prisons? You really believe this is a good thing don’t you. I’ll take a moment here and remind you we are a nation of laws. That stands for something. It’s not just words. We are a democracy and to have a thriving democracy you need to abide by the common and current laws and also participate in the process. Secret prisons don’t fall into any of that.
By forging documents about our President? I’ll use your argument. Prove it. But really, prove that he spent any time where they say he did. Did you know there was a standing $10,000 reward for anyone proving that Bush was in the reserves during the time he said he was. Nobody came forward. You’d think someone, a cook, an admin spec, anyone would want $10,000.
For you to talk bad of a man whose lost limbs for this country speaks volumes about you. I am no longer debating you. I’m just reinforcing the knowledge that is gained by these sights and by Molly Ivins. That’s why I’ve stayed up late. Just to remember her and her passion. You michael, came by like a bad fart in the wind. You don’t have facts, you have opinions and your entitled to them. But to think you are providing some service by slandering veterans and bad mouthing the dead you are wrong. Wrong as your asinine and pitiful defense has shown.
You kept asking for a debate with Zooey but you don’t hold up to little old me. In your own head you might, but that’s the only place.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:07 am#122 Fascinating column by WFB, Hellinabucket….I know of his legalization leanings, but this is the first of his columns on the subject that I have read….I don’t know if I agree with him 100%, but he makes some interesting and well-documented arguments.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:26 am1. “your ilk who would deny free speech and dissent to American citizens are the true anti-Americans†(Lora)
Ah! The typical liberal response to a Conservative who challenges their stupid rhetoric!
“Thomas Jefferson, a far greater man than you†(Lora)
You could be right but I don’t know how you came to that conclusion
blather from michael,
This thread is supposed to be about the late Molly Ivins, and you have been using it to spout your venom about Obama Barack, John Kerry, John Murtha, and Max Cleland.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:27 amYour reference to Murtha’s statement, probably made out of modesty, that he didn’t deserve such an honor proves nothing. A full recommendation and review process takes place before such medals are awarded. Moreover, there are plenty of websites, including wikipedia, and newspaper articles that point out that none of them who appeared in the Swiftboating commercials even served on the same boat with Kerry, while the men who were with him have supported him. Seeing how you work, I already know that if I refer you to an article in something like the “NY Times,” you will just dismiss it as a liberal newspaper. Let me remind you that you are the troll here, and it’s about time you back up some of your claims with facts rather than demanding that of the regular posters.
1. Ah, the typical response from a neo-con who basically thinks free speech from those to the left of him (and that is now around 70% of Americans) is unpatriotic. Shame on you!
2. Your words would lead any patriotic American who believes in free speech to such a conclusion.
Now will you please stick to the subject of the thread, Molly Ivins, whose death you have merely dismissed as “One less critic!”? More proof, BTW, that you don’t believe in free speech. Shame, shame on you!
Troll logic-the ultimate oxymoron. With the emphasis on moron.
Back to the topic of this thread: Molly Ivins was a patriot. She understood and revered the constitution of the United States of America. She exposed the assaults upon our constitution. She is a hero, and no troll or neocon apologist will ever change that.
Molly, again, thank you for your service to your country. You made me proud to be an American, in contrast to the people who undermine our rights and freedoms.
Molly Ivins will go down in history as a great American. The trolls who post here will go down as irrelevant.
Rest in Peace, Molly. Good on ya!
February 1st, 2007 at 1:32 amWell said Lora, I have enjoyed Molly’s writings for years and will look forward to a collection of them. I’m sure one will come out soon.
Thank you Molly, Good night.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:33 amthe best way we can honor MOLLY is to from this day forth call him shrub because a bush is a plant(shrub) and cheneys a……….well we all know what cheney is……..so lets impeach the shrub and the dick. to molly; may the wings of joy be yours forever.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:56 amoh, those uncivil liberal bloggers! why can’t they follow the example of the gracious and well-mannered conservatives who left notes on the msnbc message boards about the passing of molly ivins?
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February 1st, 2007 at 2:04 am#132 and #133
February 1st, 2007 at 2:29 amSo what? Would it have been better in your mind if Cindy or Molly had gone after Mary Cheney, instead?
Some trolls on TP are the meanest people. Molly Ivins is not even buried yet and they are calling her every filthy thing imaginable. Molly had a good sense of humor, so she would probably laugh at some of the sick posts about her on here.
February 1st, 2007 at 2:42 amBye Molly,you’ll be missed;but your words will live on.
February 1st, 2007 at 2:48 amyes, fix me up with her if you can. I am willing to date anyone as long as they`re female. LOL
February 1st, 2007 at 5:10 amYou will be sadly missed.
I hope you’re in a better place. Where that place is I don’t know, but I certainly hope it’s better than this strange, awful, hell-hole.
You said George W. Bush was a shrub. You were so perceptive. Right now, he’s a tumbling weed.
You were a strong oak tree, and may others always find strength in your wisdom.
You’re one Texan I would have liked to have known.
John
February 1st, 2007 at 6:54 amMolly, you will be missed.
Thank you for showing us how it can be done.
Keep throwing those well placed heart punches wherever you are.
I know you will.
February 1st, 2007 at 8:52 amYou will be missed…You were the one of the few that kept me believing thinking americans still existed…
February 1st, 2007 at 8:52 amIvins wrote in the January 11 column. “We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, ‘Stop it, now!”‘
I’m going to miss her.
February 1st, 2007 at 9:11 amPost 143 is NOT my post. A troll hijacked my name last night at 5:01 am. And post 141 is not mine either. Shame on the troll.
February 1st, 2007 at 11:16 amI am devastated by the loss of Molly. She was hands-down my favorite columnist and I will miss her witty and wise observations.
We have truly lost a treasure. My heart is with her family and friends. Rest in peace, you wonderful lady.
February 1st, 2007 at 11:23 amMy fondest memories of Molly were of her twisting the tail of every pompous, arrogant, self-absobed NeoCon and doing it with good humor, style, and grace. Some of the comments by the Trolls in here show how good she was at making the NeoCon tails sore.
I’m sure shrub (a.k.a. the current demented, corrupt president) won’t miss her at all, but I will.
May a thousand angels attend thee, Miss Molly!
February 1st, 2007 at 12:00 pmMalcomb: Go back to your trailerpark and read your bible. Your kind always has a bible.
February 1st, 2007 at 2:22 pmHere is the news story if you are interested
February 1st, 2007 at 3:46 pmMolly, Lord, girl! You were such an inspiration to me personally. I love you so much, I’d drink yo tinkle from a coon-dawg’s dirty porch bowl on Sunday mornin’ in a drivin’ hailstorm. After reading several of your more libidinous locutions, I decided to go ahead with my radical sex-change operation. Soon I will be living my dreams as a beautiful trapeze acrobat for a fledgling circus troupe in the hoppin’ gay jungles of Haiti. Wish me luck, Mama Molly!
February 18th, 2007 at 8:04 am