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Our BetterMost Community => Chez Tremblay => Topic started by: Jeff Wrangler on January 31, 2007, 10:23:04 pm
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Friends, I heard on the NBC network evening news this evening that Texas Monthly columnist Molly Ivins has died of breast cancer at age 62.
She was known for her unabashed liberalism, biting wit, and fearless skewering of the high and the mighty--including a certain United States President from Texas whom she called "Shrub."
Her voice will be sadly missed. :'(
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I saw that with great sadness, too, Jeff. I loved listening to Molly's witty and on-target observations about the pretentious and the hypocritical. With both her and Ann Richards gone, the world is a greyer place. But Heaven just got a bit livelier. ;)
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I saw that with great sadness, too, Jeff. I loved listening to Molly's witty and on-target observations about the pretentious and the hypocritical. With both her and Ann Richards gone, the world is a greyer place. But Heaven just got a bit livelier. ;)
Tell you what, Meryl, late last night I found myself thinkin', "Oooeee, sure would have been some high class entertainment to have gone drinkin' with Molly Ivins and Ann Richards together!" ;D
A couple of lively gals! Doubt we'll see the likes of them again. :'(
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Oh, NO. :'(
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She and Maureen Dowd were/are both good at using humor to inform, to get a point across. I think Molly referred to Bush as the Shrub. Loved her swipes at the current administration. I had bought a few of Molly's books in the 1990's.
I missed her weekly columns and had read she was sick. So sorry for her untimely death as we need her now more then ever. RIP
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Here is a great link from the Texas Observer that has other links to her more recent columns: Molly Ivins (http://www.texasobserver.org/)
And an obit from Seattlepi.com: Syndicated columnist Molly Ivins dies (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Obit_Ivins.html)
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I found myself thinkin', "Oooeee, sure would have been some high class entertainment to have gone drinkin' with Molly Ivins and Ann Richards together!" ;D
A couple of lively gals! Doubt we'll see the likes of them again. :'(
Those were the last of the old time yellow dog Democrats, SOOOOOO incredibly sorry to see them go. :(
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Those were the last of the old time yellow dog Democrats, SOOOOOO incredibly sorry to see them go. :(
I will never, EVER forget Ann Richards' famous line about the elder Bush, delivered with that wonderful Texas twang in her voice:
"Pore George. He cain't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth!"
;D
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Saw another nice tribute here (http://www.slate.com/id/2159005) at Slate.com today.
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Very nice one. Thanks for posting that, Meryl. I especially like this:
"Iraq is clearly hubris carried to the point of insanity—it's damn hard to convince people you're killing them for their own good."
And I remember reading that piece about Nixon out loud to my husband and him about choking with laughter at a couple of her barbs of him and the media.
Definitely a sad time for liberals (and victims of neo-conservatism) everywhere. As the saying goes, a great light has gone out.