Molly Ivins: The Best Little Whorehouse in Washington

[norml]

Molly Ivins: The Best Little Whorehouse in Washington

Posted on May 8, 2006
By Molly Ivins

AUSTIN, Texas—Of course I am above sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. So serious a servant of the public interest am I, I can fogey with the best: On my better days, I make David Broder look like Page Six.

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On other hand, if you expect me to pass up a scandal involving poker, hookers and the Watergate building with crooked defense contractors and the No. 3 guy at the CIA, named Dusty Foggo (Dusty Foggo?! Be still my heart), you expect too much. Any journalist who claims Hookergate is not a legitimate scandal is dead—has been for some time and needs to be unplugged. In addition to sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, Hookergate is rife with public-interest questions, misfeasance, malfeasance and non-feasance, and many splendid moral points for the children. Recommended for Sunday school use, grades seven and above.

But for starters, let us consider the unenviable record of Porter Goss at the CIA. From the beginning of his tenure, Goss has been criticized for politicizing the agency. He brought a bunch of political hacks with him for staff, one of whom turns out to be the poker player called “Nine Fingers.” And in the end, he was probably fired for not having politicized the agency sufficiently.

What is the point of politicizing an intelligence agency? So the CIA officials would get a report from some agent in Iraq saying, “Looks bad.” The first thing they’d ask was, “Is this agent a Republican or a Democrat?”

Maybe there really are conservatives who believe everything in Iraq is hunky-dory and there’s a giant media conspiracy to hide the joyous tidings. But as you may recall, the ever-nimble minds at Donny Rumsfeld’s shop have already tried paying public relations people to invent good news about Iraq and then plant it in newspapers there—it didn’t work. In fact, it was so stupid it was humiliating. Fortunately, the Pentagon was once again able to investigate itself and determine it had done nothing illegal.


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[Ringo84]

1. Re:

YES! Molly Ivins! She is awesome!

I get (or my household gets) the Richmond, VA paper The Times-Dispatch. Molly Ivins in featured once a week on the commentary page, which is pretty conservative (Ross Mackenzie, the editor, is fairly right-wing but I don't think he's a nut in most cases).

Lots of Republicans have written to the paper to advocate Molly getting dropped from the Op-Ed line-up because she "doesn't contribute anything ". These people are just angry because a liberal who isn't afraid to express herself is featured in the paper. Get over it!
Ringo

[WhiteTara]

2. Go Molly

This woman has ovarios! Great article. :applause:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. Huge ones, too!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. Rock on, Molly!

[malaise]

4. I love Molly n/t

[norml]

10. I saw that this was only posted in the Editorials forum, and that it had

gotten only two responses, so I posted it here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=209143

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. LOL!

"Fortunately, the Pentagon was once again able to investigate itself and determine it had done nothing illegal."

How this Administration has continually managed to stop every worthy investigation could be the topic of a week's worth of Daily Shows.

[young_at_heart]

7. GREAT line: "The Pentagon was once again able to investigate itself"

One wonders if they have ever found themselves to have something illegal?

[Kurovski]

8. K&R.(no text)

[BoneDaddy]

9. Good Golly Miss Molly

you always make me laugh with your wit and intelligience.

[Maven]

11. God I love that woman. n/t