a 'sorry' sack of shiite.
"Sorry, I was drunk."
I live in Texas and I agree, SHE SURE IS SORRY!~ Sorry excuse for a human being.
Further, can any serious news publication continue to purchase her columns? Of course not the serious ones.
"Sorry that I'm me."
Preposterous. Saddam's civilian death toll has been widely known to be in the hundreds of thousands since the first Gulf War. Anyone purporting to be journalist who doesn't know that is either a medacious liar or far too stupid to be let loose behind a keyboard (in Ivins' case, it's probably both...)
Ivins is to responsible journalism what Joe Stalin was to the cause of human rights in the world. That demented old sow wouldn't know a well-written article if it jumped out of her fat ass and introduced itself with a business card.
Ivins is more like Roy Munson from "Kingpin".
Molly invented the nickname "Shrub" for the President.
***Or DID she?????*****
Poor Molly,
Born with a hand-me-down foot in her mouth.
She's a perfect example.
"According to the iconoclastic author Florence King, Ivins is a "professional Good Ole Girl....Watching her go through her paces is like watching Ona Munson, who played Belle Watling in ‘Gone With the Wind,` doing an imitation of Spencer Tracy playing Clarence Darrow in ‘Inherit the Wind.` That`s a lot of wind." "
LoL
ping
Ivins, a Texan who`s described herself as "a left-wing, aging Bohemian journalist,"
If Ivins is "a left-wing, aging Bohemian journalist", what does that make Helen Thomas? Maureen Dowd? Any of the other NAG HAG "journalists"????
No wonder she's such a devotee of Joe Biden. I remember a column she wrote about Dan Quayle (one of about 2 columns by her that I have ever read all the way through). This was during the democrat primary flap where her buddy Joe got into a little bit of hot water for lifting significant portions of prior speeches by Kennedy's, British labor leaders, and passing them off as his own words (or "what's on my mind"). Naturally, even before the age of Google and Lexus-Nexus searches, enough people remembered the origins of those speeches that he was quickly revealed as the opportunistic plagiarizer that he was. So here comes Molly to his defense.
It seems that Dan Quayle was speaking somewhere and he began his speech with a little self-depracating joke that he told in the first person, i.e. as if the humorous story had happened to him. Obviously, he didn't invent the joke; it had been around the block a time or two (like most jokes). Also, and equally obviously, he did not attribute the joke to whomever he had previously heard tell the joke (because nobody gives attribution on jokes -- they are jokes for crying out loud). But Molly -- who you would think would know a thing or two about plagiarism based on her own experience in the area -- decided that this failure to give proper attribution for the joke was every bit the plagiaristic offense as Little Joe's adventures on the campaign trail. She further articulated that anybody that wouldn't challenge VP Quayle on his failure to properly attribute his little anecdotal joke yet criticized Joey's plagiarism was a big fat hypocrite.
The funny thing is that ever since that column I have known Molly was a complete idiot, and everything I've ever heard her say since then has reinforced that impression.
Many years ago, when I first started reading columns by Molly Ivins, she portrayed herself as a "Good ole Texas populist" a kind of homey, honest, female Will Rogers in liberal garb. As time went by, she increasingly exposed herself as a bitterly deceitful, third-rate hack...the kind found so often in the pages of the "Nation" where lies form a kind of badge of honor. Much as they did for their communist allies. The Left concocts so many stories and engages in such massive deceit that they drip lies like a man stepping out of a pool drips water. That Ivins is a plagiarist and liar should surprise no one. She's a bird of the same leftwing feather.
The Stone Age Press has become nothing more than a giant Echo Chamber where all the reporters write to each other. The groupthink has become so predictable that if you read or hear one reporter you’ve heard them all. Where has all the original though or creativity gone in an industry that is based on painting history with words? There are two main forces blowing through PravdABDNC that are stifling all diversity of thought. The first is the absolute bias towards the DNC and the other is the fear of going against their Establishment.
Is there any wonder that the Conservative writers continually have best sellers while liberals only have cellars. America is starved for writers they agree with, yet they are continually insulted by reporters who show nothing but contempt for them and their way of life. This is no way to expand your business or even keep the customers you already have. This Country is divided 52-48% Republican, yet the scribes of history are 90% Democrat. How can they report about a Conservative Country when they have no desire to understand?
How has this Industry become so disenfranchised from it’s customer base? Simple really, the reporters write for each other and know that if they all agree then virtually nobody can be wrong. Take for example of the election. Even though GW had always polled the lead, the press hoped that Kerry would close at the end and take Florida. To predict otherwise would put you in the minority and if you were wrong you would have to explain why you went against the common group thought. If you were right then the group will just say that it was an upset and cover their error. Since everyone is in agreement there is no threat to lose face and maintain your expert status since you were all wrong together. If you are wrong by yourself you have more explaining to do.
This is how the Stoned Agers have maintained such catch phrases as Bush Lied, WMD, pre-emptive 18 month rushed into, go it alone coalition. It allows lies to be maintained with none of the established reporters willing to buck the tide even had they wanted. All of the awards and front page stories are given to the scribes who are the most accepted and those are the ones who do not take risks. Now all of the front page reporters are complete DNC spokesmen which leaves a vacuum of divergent thought. Everybody wants their little awards and will do what it takes to receive those awards. You sure won’t soon see Ann Coulter’s name on those little dust catchers.
The major drum & bugle we are going hear over the next couple years will be that Harpy clinton is an automatic for President. None of these ancients will go against the group-think since it will put them out on a limb along with the caster nation of their peers. Nobody will give an honest evaluation of her lack of warmth/humility or shrieking skills. Imagine her telling self deprivating humor? So we will hear nothing except what a great candidate/screecher she is. The fact is that she is a lousy candidate, a poor debater and sagging in the polls. She very may well lose her Senate seat in a “huge” upset. You read it here first and the Old York Times, have they endorsed yet; will make excuses.
The lack of diversity and creativity will be the death of these Dinosores. With a sophisticated audience and a shortened attention span these old formulas no longer work. When most information was stored and researched in books, attention spans could tolerate boring one sided stories. With the advent of 24 hour news and the internet we no longer have the time or patience to tolerate their droll.
What was once an industry supposedly filled with truth seekers is now a megaphone of the DNC. That and the lack of an original thought over the past 20 or so years and you have the Stone Age Press up to it’s nostrils in the tarpits of histoir. The literal bankruptcy of that industry would bring about a Free Press that not only has the political freedom but an intellectual freedom that has long since left. It is not pretty to see these status quo reporters in their death rattles as they invent scandal after scandal in a transparent attempt to return to their glory. You can bet that the Buggy manufacturers had the same desperate smirks on their faces as the Model T splashed mud on their freshly shined shoes.
Enough braying.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Doesn't sound like groveling to me. Sounds more smart-alecky than anything else.
400,000 over 24 years ='s 16,666 per month.
Her 20,000 number over the past few months still equates the US with Saddam.
Its not an apology.