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...they are showing no let up in venting their hate. Their target this evening is Molly Ivins. These venal, stupid people have no idea the champion for justice they have lost. It sickens me to even look at their hateful comments and their oh-so-holier-than-thou-but-don't-really-mean-it RIPs. What these jackasses need is the largest enema on the face of the earth shoved up their sphincters. Disgusting. If you can stand it, the rest here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777049/postsColumnist Molly Ivins dies
dfw.com ^ | Wed, Jan. 31, 2007 | JOHN MORITZ
Posted on 01/31/2007 3:53:45 PM PST by lunarbicep
Molly Ivins, whose biting columns mixed liberal populism with an irreverent Texas wit, died at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at her home in Austin after an up-and-down battle with breast cancer she had waged for seven years. She was 62.
Ms. Ivins, the Star-Telegram’s political columnist for nine years ending in 2001, had written for the New York Times, the Dallas Times-Herald and Time magazine and had long been a sought-after pundit on the television talk-show circuit to provide a Texas slant on issues ranging from President Bush’s pedigree to the culture wars rooted in the 1960s.
"She was magical in her writing," said Mike Blackman, a former Star-Telegram executive editor who hired Ms. Ivins at the newspaper’s Austin bureau in 1992, a few months after the Times-Herald ceased publication. "She could turn a phrase in such a way that a pretty hard-hitting point didn’t hurt so bad."
A California native who moved to Houston as a young child with her family, Ms. Ivins was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999. Two years later after enduring a radical mastectomy and rounds of chemotherapy, Ms. Ivins was given a 70 percent chance of remaining cancer-free for five years. At the time, she said she liked the odds.
But the cancer recurred in 2003, and again last year. In recent weeks, she had suspended her twice-weekly syndicated column, allowing guest writers to use the space while she underwent further treatment. She made a brief return to writing in mid-January, urging readers to resist President Bush’s plan to increase the number of U.S. troops deployed to Iraq. She likened her call to an old-fashioned "newspaper crusade."
"We are the people who run this country," Ms Ivins said in the column published in the Jan. 14 edition of the Star-Telegram. "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.
"Raise hell," she continued. "Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we’re for them and are trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge."
She ended the piece by endorsing the peace march in Washington scheduled for Saturday. 01-27 "We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, "Stop it, now!' " she wrote.
The spice of Texas
Born Mary Tyler Ivins on Aug. 30, 1944, in Monterey, Calif., Ms. Ivins was raised in the upscale River Oaks section of Houston. She earned her journalism degree at elite Smith College in Massachusetts in 1965. From there she ventured to Minnesota, taking a job as a police reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune.
Growing weary of the winters in the Upper Great Lakes and missing the spice of Texas food and its politics, Ms. Ivins moved to Austin to become co-editor of the Texas Observer, long considered the state’s liberal conscience.
Nadine Eckhardt, the former wife of the late Texas novelist Billy Lee Bramer and who later married former U.S. Rep. Bob Eckhardt of Houston, said Ivins soon made herself a fixture in the Austin political and cocktail party scene in the early 1970s.
"That’s where she became the Molly Ivins as we’ve come to know her," said Eckhardt, an Ivins friend for nearly four decades. "The Observer had such wonderful writers doing such wonderful stories at the time, and Molly was always right in the middle of everything."
Her writing flair caught the attention of the New York Times, which hired her to cover city hall, then later moved her to the statehouse bureau in Albany. Later, she was assigned to the Times’ Rocky Mountain bureau in Denver.
Even though she wrote the Times’ obituary for Elvis Presley in 1977, Ms. Ivins said later that she and the sometimes stodgy Times proved to be a mismatch. In a 2002 interview with the Star-Telegram, Ms. Ivins recalled that she would write about something that "squawked like a $2 fiddle" only to have a Times editor rewrite it to say "as an inexpensive instrument." Ms Ivins said she would mention a "beer belly" and The Times would substitute "a protuberant abdomen.”
So Ms. Ivins returned to Austin in 1982 to become a columnist for the Dallas Times-Herald and reconnecting with such political figures as Ann Richards, who would later become governor, and Bob Bullock, then the hard-drinking state comptroller who later wielded great power as lieutenant governor.
Trademark language
The column provided Ms. Ivins the freedom to express her views with the colorful language that would become her trademark. She called such figures as Ross Perot, former U.S. Sen. John Tower and ex-Gov. Bill Clements "runts with attitudes." As a candidate for governor, George W. Bush became "Shrub," a nicknamed she never tired of using.
Surprised became "womperjawed." A visibly angry person would "throw a walleyed fit."
Ms. Ivins, who was single and had no children, told readers about her first bout with cancer in a matter-of-fact afterword in an otherwise ordinary column.
"I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I fully intend to recover," she wrote on Dec. 14, 1999. "I don’t need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done."
Ms. Ivins authored three books and co-authored a fourth. She was a three-time finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and had served on Amnesty International’s Journalism Network, but the iconoclastic writer often said that her two highest honors were being banned from the conservative campus of Texas A&M University and having the Minneapolis police name their mascot pig after her when she covered the department as a reporter during one of her first jobs in the newspaper business.
Funeral arrangements were pending.
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1 posted on 01/31/2007 3:53:46 PM PST by lunarbicep
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To: lunarbicep
Couldn't disagree with her more, but Rest in Peace.
2 posted on 01/31/2007 3:55:03 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: lunarbicep
I hope she finds more peace in death than she did in life.
She was a very angry person.
Cheers,
knewshound
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3 posted on 01/31/2007 3:55:22 PM PST by knews_hound (Sarcastically blogging since 2004.)
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To: lunarbicep
Hateful to the end. RIP.
4 posted on 01/31/2007 3:55:29 PM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: lunarbicep
Rest In Peace, Molly.
5 posted on 01/31/2007 3:55:55 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear.. on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: martin_fierro
amen
6 posted on 01/31/2007 3:56:34 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: lunarbicep
Ms. Ivins, who was single and had no children,
Color me surprised.
7 posted on 01/31/2007 3:56:56 PM PST by HIDEK6
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To: lunarbicep
Ms. Ivins, who was single and had no children
I'm shocked. I'll echo the comment that I hope she finds some peace finally.
8 posted on 01/31/2007 3:56:57 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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An angry, bitter, Bush hating liberal.....
Meadow Muffin
9 posted on 01/31/2007 3:57:00 PM PST by rwgal
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To: lunarbicep
I have a few nicknames for her but I won't use them now, because I hope I have more class than she did.
10 posted on 01/31/2007 3:57:06 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth and justice are not always the same.)
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To: lunarbicep
Prayers...please be respectful, FReepers.
11 posted on 01/31/2007 3:57:09 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Forgot your tagline? Click here to have it resent!)
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To: martin_fierro
I'll bite my tounge and leave
12 posted on 01/31/2007 3:57:10 PM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: lunarbicep
I lost two cousins to cancer within a month back in 2000.
Wouldn't wish such a demise on anyone. It truly can be horrible.
13 posted on 01/31/2007 3:57:41 PM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08 - rationalization not required, he IS a conservative already)
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To: lunarbicep
Hard to say anything bad about her now that she's gone. Rest in peace, Molly.
14 posted on 01/31/2007 3:57:52 PM PST by PilloryHillary (againsthillary.com)
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To: lunarbicep
Rest in peace, ma'am. Prayers for her family.
Yes, her columns were hard to read for the hate and venom, and she seemed to be a very unhappy woman, but this is sad news.
15 posted on 01/31/2007 3:57:59 PM PST by Theresawithanh (Growing old isn't so bad, especially when you consider the alternative!)
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16 posted on 01/31/2007 3:58:02 PM PST by Enduring Freedom (President Bush - Your Public Relations Team Sucks!)
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To: lunarbicep
Eh, too bad.
Spirited opposition keeps us on our toes, gloves up, punch, jab, hook.
She was tough.
17 posted on 01/31/2007 3:59:13 PM PST by LibKill (ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
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To: Enduring Freedom
Yeah I know all about her history but I still say rest in peace. Cancer is a hard way to die.
18 posted on 01/31/2007 3:59:18 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear.. on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: lunarbicep
Absolutely disagreed with just about everything I ever read of hers (after a while I just stopped reading).
Nevertheless, prayers for her soul and her family.
19 posted on 01/31/2007 3:59:39 PM PST by Monkey King
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To: lunarbicep
I've wondered how I would react if we tried Murtha and Kerry for treason and hanged them. I'd be satisfied to say the least.
20 posted on 01/31/2007 3:59:45 PM PST by pissant
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To: lunarbicep
She has been freed of this Earth, and we have been freed of her.
Was that mean?
21 posted on 01/31/2007 3:59:45 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Warning. If your tagline is funny... I may steal it.)
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RIP...
22 posted on 01/31/2007 3:59:56 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: lunarbicep
I hope she found God prior to her death.
23 posted on 01/31/2007 4:00:01 PM PST by TommyDale (If we don't put a stop to this global warming, we will all be dead in 10,000 years!)
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To: lunarbicep
Please FReepers, show some class, FGS..
Molly was defeated after a lengthly battle against her Breast Cancer. Her death is a grim reminder that Breast Cancer can kill.
RIP, Molly..
sw
24 posted on 01/31/2007 4:00:34 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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