God Bless Molly Ivins
Posted on February 1, 2007
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Read also: Remembering Molly Ivins, John Nichols, The Nation
Molly Ivins was an original. Tonight, the angels in heaven have a new reason to speak truth. Molly will be taking names and setting records straight—with humor, warmth and the occasional devilish barb.
Molly died today, January 31, 2007, aged 62, after a long battle with cancer.
from Peter Rothberg via Yahoo:
In the second-to-last syndicated column she’s been able to write she declared herself on an “old-fashioned newspaper campaign” and vowed to use every column she had to “write about this war until we find some way to end it.”
In that column Molly wrote:
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.
Following are excerpts from Gary Cartwright and Bill Moyers on the Texas Observer website. That site seems a bit overwhelmed tonight at 2 a.m. on the East coast, midnight in Texas.
Gary Cartwright of Texas Monthly:
Molly Ivins was an unabashed patriot, and it drove right-wingers nuts. Conservatives somehow got it fixed in their brains that patriotism meant being in lockstep with their ideology, that dissent was treason. Molly made a career of reminding them otherwise, always careful to point out how cute they were when they acted like fools.
Bill Moyers:
In the celestial light she glows as irrepressibly and vividly as she did here on Earth, where she made the mighty humble, the wicked ashamed, and the good ol’ boys reach for the barrel to hide their forlorn nakedness. And, oh, the stories she must be telling as we speak.
I never had the pleasure, Molly, but your passing leaves an emptiness of an unexpected size. Your memory leaves equal portions of warmth and goodwill.
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God Bless Molly Ivins…
Tonight, the angels in heaven have a new reason to speak truth. Molly will be taking names and setting records straight—with humor, warmth and the occasional devilish barb….
I ran across this today while searching for something else. It’s a very nice tribute to a great lady. I named my daughter after her!
Thanks.
Sally McCarty