"Raise Hell": The Life And Times Of Molly Ivins

[appalachiablue]

(2019), On Fandango. - 'Raise Hell, The Life and Times of Molly Ivins,' IDA. “Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.” -Molly Ivins. RAISE HELL is about a Texas maverick named MOLLY IVINS. Often compared to Mark Twain, she was one of the most courageous journalists of modern times... and also one of the funniest!
The six-foot tall, red-haired Texan used her razor-sharp wit to speak truth to power while giving a voice to those who didn't have one. Calling out corrupt politicians who were backed by corporate bosses was great sport for Molly, and many of her targets loved being in her columns. Molly said “I believe that it’s fair game when these guys stand up and say something foolish to lay it right out there and let people get a good look at what they have elected.”

Molly was a trailblazer for female journalists. At the height of her popularity, nearly 400 papers carried her column. She appeared on national television and radio, lectured all over the country and encouraged her constituents to raise hell and fight for freedom. A fighter against injustice until the very end, breast cancer took Ivins out of the game way too soon...
https://www.documentary.org/project/raise-hell-life-times-molly-ivins

[Laelth]

1. k&r for the late, great Molly Ivins. n/t

-Laelth

[appalachiablue]

3. Brilliant with humor, Molly was a treasure. We need her now.

[Laelth]

4. She was always in the "better to laugh than to cry" camp.

She cried inside. She also warned us that “things can always get worse.” I wonder what she would say about 2020.

-Laelth

[kag]

2. I was always a huge Molly Ivins fan.

I cried real tears when she died.

[Cyrano]

5. Molly was the best of the best

Imagine how brilliantly she'd slice and dice the malicious joke in the White House.

[lunasun]

6. Kick + hope to get to see it

[mountain grammy]

7. She was the best!

And thanks for the link. Looks like a good site..

[burrowowl]

8. Should be good!

[Dustlawyer]

9. K&R!!! Miss reading her columns. She would have kept our Governor in line during

this virus. He would not have been able to do what he is doing because the political costs would have been too high. Lt. Gov Dan Patrick would have been a smoldering husk at this point.

[Lonestarblue]

10. I have two of her books and pull them out when I need a laugh.

Molly would have skewered Trump in a thousand different ways and would have made people see him as the idiotic despot he is. I can’t think of any journalist today with her wit and her willingness to take on the inanities of many politicians.

[CaptainTruth]

11. I wish she was still with us...

[niyad]

12. KNR for the brilliant Molly Ivins, a true national treasure!

[dhill926]

13. miss her...

all her books are on our bookshelf...

[cp]

14. Yay! Just added it to my Netflix queue!

At the top, of course!

[sandensea]

15. Politics, she once observed, is the finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

And Ivins was one of the show's very best critics.

God, do we need her now.