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Rest in peace, Ms. Ivins. (http://www.texasobserver.org/molly_obituary.html)

*moment of silence*

I heard this AM on NPR. She'll be sorely missed. After all, it was Molly who first called W "Shrub."

"The poor man who is currently our president has reached such a point of befuddlement that he thinks stem cell research is the same as taking human lives, but that 40,000 dead Iraqi civilians are progress toward democracy," -from a July 2006 column urging commentator Bill Moyers to run for president.

More quotes (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4516556.html)

She was absolutely brilliant.

"The poor man who is currently our president has reached such a point of befuddlement that he thinks stem cell research is the same as taking human lives, but that 40,000 dead Iraqi civilians are progress toward democracy," -from a July 2006 column urging commentator Bill Moyers to run for president.

More quotes (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4516556.html)

She was absolutely brilliant.

Bill Moyers for President! There's a candidate I could go for!

Between her and Ann Richards, the two great Bush-whackers are gone. At least their legacy is one of success (so far)...

One of the things I liked best about Molly Ivins is that she didn't make it personal. I thought that was refreshing.

Between her and Ann Richards, the two great Bush-whackers are gone. At least their legacy is one of success (so far)...

One of the things I liked best about Molly Ivins is that she didn't make it personal. I thought that was refreshing.

Yes, she never questioned her targets' patriotism or called them traitors or implied that they hated the United States.

Yes, she never questioned her targets' patriotism or called them traitors or implied that they hated the United States.

Yeah, we leave it to the Busheviks like Ann Coulter and her ex-boytoy Dinesh D'Souza.

Requiescat in pace

who?

who?

Molly Ivins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Ivins)

Well, in the tradition of Cleese's eulogy to his fellow Python, I'll try and apply the same principle to Ms. Ivins.

"Well, at least she won't have to see the next 2 years of Bush administration."

;)

Rest in peace, Ms. Ivins.

Yeah, we leave it to the Busheviks like Ann Coulter and her ex-boytoy Dinesh D'Souza.

Whom?

Whom?

He's the douchebag who wrote that new book which basically blames The Left for Bin Ladin in the first place. And he has admitted to dating Coulter once on Fair Game.

He's an asshole.

I figured as much.

Truly, there was no more amiable critic of "Shrub" than Molly Ivins. After attempting to join the crusaders of the 60s while working at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, she realized that she didn't want to expose the establishment from within the establishment.

She returned to Texas, which, at the time, had perhaps one of the most corrupt state governments in the union. So pervasive was the corruption, that it was joked about and virtually out in the open. Molly began writing for smaller, more independent papers and started calling a spade a spade in a style which, while unflinchingly honest, never concealed her love of her home state or the vast majority of its people.

Check out some of her books to get a feel for her prose style or look her up online:

Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
Shrub
Bushwhacked
Who Let the Dogs In?

Her description of Bill Clinton as "weaker than bus station chili" is a classic.

It is a sad day for the press. Especially since she has to die of cancer and Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken and Lars Larsen get to go on polluting the airwaves and the pages of this nation.

I will miss her wit and powers of observation. Rest in peace.

Molly Ivins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Ivins)

never heard of her.