A very smart, funny, and accomplished writer has left the fold and has become one with the universe. Molly Ivins was a sharp political writer whose prose didn’t quite match her rather gentle demeanor in person.
She died of breast cancer yesterday.
She was a very strong critic of the Bush administration and right wing politics in general. But I think Ivins said it best when she told People magazine:
“There are two kinds of humor. [One is the kind] “that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule. That’s what I do.â€
Sometimes she was very funny, but since Bush came into office, she was much more serious in her critique of what was happening in our country — and who could blame her! I looked on You Tube to see if I could find clips of her, and I found this one from a program entitled “W’s War” (Her snippet is at 1:44).
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–PK
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RIP Molly.
Py – did you post twice? I see two posts about Molly Ivins.
Oops…fixed!
What a sad day for journalism, that she is gone. She not only called Bush to the carpet, she called the Dems as well.
Great clip, though depressing.
She was quite young, 62. A shame we had to lose her so early.