An American Icon in Journalism: Mary Tyler 'Molly' Ivins

[derby378]

Oh how we miss you, Molly Ivins!

If only you knew how much we miss your journalistic soft core bellicosity, the political satire and celebrated puns! If only you knew how much more there is to be done to right this ship-nation of ours listing to the right… and ready to sink! But you know, yes you know… and had no recourse, accepting mortality just like the rest of us.

Today marks a year since you left us escorted by Eirene and Hypatia, as if to honor your fight for peace with intelligence, wit and wisdom. No better escorts to heaven than the goddess of peace and that woman-scholar killed, not by breast cancer like you, Molly, but by a Christian mob of "fundamentalists"; Hypatia, the first martyr of science, greatest mind of her time, assassinated by religion almost sixteen centuries ago.

Right to the end you advocated peace, and just a few days before your death you wrote that last column fighting to stop the war in Iraq, as you had done non-stop for four years, telling us in that column: "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… We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'" But unfortunately, dear Molly, too many of us seem to have abdicated our freedoms and decision-making to that man in the White House you called Shrub, a man who rules our lives with an empty "upstairs" and a fossilized heart.

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/19852&Itemid=1

[derby378]

1. What, no love for Molly?

Damn. Maybe everyone's still just waking up.

[Solly Mack]

2. I miss me some Molly

[derby378]

3. Yeah, me too...

A shame she couldn't be here to light some fires under the butts of Democrats on the Hill.

[krkaufman]

12. And to enjoy some small amount of justice (accompanied with sadness) ...

... that Shrub turned-out to be just as bad a President as she predicted, and that he'll leave office as the worst President in US history.

If there *is* a heaven, Molly's finally sitting in a comfy chair.

[alarimer]

4. I miss her voice

I bet she would have a LOT to say about this campaign.

[derby378]

8. Oh, you better believe it...

I'm sure she's up in Heaven, staring down at Earth, chomping at the bit to haunt the campaign trails.

[JNelson6563]

5. *sniff*

How I miss her. She had that amazing ability to find a way to inject humor into the darkest of situations, helping one from slipping into complete despair.

So often there are human specimens that make me wish there really was a hell, she's one of the rare one's that make me wish there really was a heaven--so she could be there.

Julie

[krkaufman]

13. The humor aspect was key.

I love listening to Sam Seder for the same reason, the injection of humor helps one cope with what might otherwise be quite maddening information.

p.s. Thanks for that signature graphic. I didn't realize Nancy was giving it another try.

[Booster]

14. Thank God, we still have Nance Greggs. Same writing style.

[malaise]

6. Good Golly

I really miss Miss Molly!!

[MaineYooper]

7. K & R for Molly

She was just simply the best. My monthly issue of The Progressive just isn't the same without that immediate flip to the back page to see what she had written.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Has it only been a year? Seems much longer to me. We miss you, Molly.

[UTUSN]

10. K&R big #5!1 n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

11. If I had a flag to lower,

I'd lower it for Molly today.

[Pastiche423]

15. I miss Molly something terrible

So glad we still have the gift of her words.

[sueh]

16. Here's a link to Prairie Home Companion when Molly was a guest on the show 10 years ago.

Sure was a treat to actually hear her voice again. Miss you, Molly!!

Click on Segment 2.
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2008/01/12/

[derby378]

17. Thanks for sharing!

:hi:

[taterguy]

18. You just passed a law that says a prick can't touch an asshole

That was the punchline of a joke that she told when I saw her speak at a Baptist Chapel.

Boy do I miss her.

[Hekate]

19. Molly Ivins was gone much too soon. I see her sitting with Mark Twain now...

She was such a gift to all of us while she was here.

Hekate

[east texas lib]

20. She spoke for many that had no other way to be heard...

To write with such eloquence AND piss off dip sticks like Mark Davis(our local right-
wing frother on AM radio) was very cool, indeed!

[KatyaR]

21. I miss her every day.

I still feel like there's something missing because there's no new Molly column to read every week.

God love her. :hug: