Wonderful, funny, article on Molly Ivins in the NYTimes

[Dover]

Haven't looked around in other forums, but didn't see this article posted here in Editorials yet.


This will tickle your funnybone, Molly-style.

February 1, 2007
Molly Ivins, Columnist, Dies at 62
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Molly Ivins, the liberal newspaper columnist who delighted in skewering politicians and interpreting, and mocking, her Texas culture, died yesterday in Austin. She was 62.

Ms. Ivins waged a public battle against breast cancer after her diagnosis in 1999. Betsy Moon, her personal assistant, confirmed her death last night. Ms. Ivins died at her home surrounded by family and friends.

In her syndicated column, which appeared in about 350 newspapers, Ms. Ivins cultivated the voice of a folksy populist who derided those who she thought acted too big for their britches. She was rowdy and profane, but she could filet her opponents with droll precision.

After Patrick J. Buchanan, as a conservative candidate for president, declared at the 1992 Republican National Convention that the United States was engaged in a cultural war, she said his speech “probably sounded better in the original German.”

“There are two kinds of humor,” she told People magazine. One was the kind “that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity,” she said. “The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule. That’s what I do.”..cont'd

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/washington/01ivins.html?ex=1170997200&en=bb03342e883e2329&ei=5070&emc=eta1

[SusanaMontana41]

1. Wonderful and funny

Just like Miss Molly.

Thanks for posting this.

[Dover]

2. Indeed. And let me rephrase..."tickle your funnybone" is MUCH too delicate

a phrase.

I should have said the article was "slap your knee and spit out your beer" kind of funny.
THAT is Molly-style.