Isn't that special???
Posted on 01/27/2007 4:43:33 AM PST by Ninian Dryhope
AUSTIN - Nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins has been hospitalized in her recurring battle with breast cancer.
"I think she's tough as a metal boot," her brother, Andy Ivins, said Friday after a visit with her at Seton Medical Center in Austin.
Andy Ivins said his sister was admitted to Seton on Thursday. She spent Friday morning with longtime colleagues and friends, and was "sleeping peacefully" when he arrived later in the day.
A self-described leftist agitator, Ivins, 62, completed a round of radiation treatment in August, but the cancer "came back with a vengeance," and has spread through her body, Andy Ivins said.
Ivins' columns, which she infuses with passion and wit, appear in more than 300 newspapers around the country. She's written six books, four of which were best sellers.
They included Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, which she wrote with longtime friend Lou Dubose; and Who Let the Dogs In? Incredible Political Animals I Have Known.
Ivins was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999. A year later, she described her treatment with characteristic wit: "First they poison you; then they mutilate you; then they burn you. I've had more fun."
She received her third diagnosis a year ago; despite her illness, she's managed to crank out her columns.
In a piece earlier this month, she wrote that she was starting a newspaper crusade to end the war in Iraq.
"Raise hell," she urged readers. "Think of something ridiculous to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. ... We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!' "
"I think some people are making an effort to seem magnanimous, to prove some sort of point."
You mean like Frist, Hastert, Snowe, Collins, Chaffee, Specter and all those other spineless "Republicrats" who are (or were) so hellbent on making nice with the Dummicrats. Look what magnanimity got us in the last election.
They've been treating her for cancer, but what's really eating her from the inside is her terrible attitude.
I can only do the same for others.
If Molly Ivins deserves mercy somewhere along the path of life, then that is what she will receive. If she deserves something else, then that is what she will receive. As mentioned, I hope she receives what she deserves, nothing more, nothing less.
There are so many limp writsted hypocrits on this site. But go ahead. Feel good about yourself I dont give a rats ass.
I wish all columnists, regardless of how liberal they are, good health.
Except for maybe Hellan Thomas. She's gotta kick the bucket one of these days pretty soon anyway. :)-
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Well said. An excellent summation.
No. Even sociopaths feel their own losses deeply.
Mercy, by it's very definition, is UNDESERVED.
The UN could kill half the American military and she would excuse it as just.
JMO but dont kid yourself that these people are harmless to our world. They have chance after chance after chance to see the light yet the whole time spred their anti American spew at anyone gullible enough to listen..
Im not saying rot in hell but it does not for one iota of a nano second bother me that she is on her last leg.
don't belittle us animals by comparing us to Molly what's her name.....
Cancer doesn't give a damn what your politics are.
Isn't that special???
Something like that.
But this forum has many posters, many points of view. If some people want to rend their garments over Molly Ivins, that's fine.
ditto.
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.
Passionate as as any lefty, wit , I never saw any evidence of it.
I despise her and don't feel particularly sorry for her, but I hope she recovers because the part of my conscience that says it's evil to wish pain and suffering on someone, or take delight in it or feel a sense of revenge or vindication from it, just for the words they've written won the moral struggle that went on in my mind as I read the story. :>
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