Columnist Molly Ivins dies

dfw.com ^ | Wed, Jan. 31, 2007 | JOHN MORITZ

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I'm not going to waste my time feeling sorry for this leftist.

Who's feeling sorry for her?

This is a news article, and we're posting our responses to it just like any other post.

Why even click on the thread then?

[Volunteer]

"The Dixie Chicks and Sheila Jackson-Lee is all that remain of the 'rats in Texas now."

I will remember to pray for the Lone Star Republic tonight.

Those 4 women are just awful.

[samadams2000]

I wouldn't wish cancer on any civilized person....

[w8liftinglady]

I just wanted to thank the members of Free Republic for their kind words towards Molly and her family.We can agree to disagree on politics,but some things transcend the right/left label.Bless you for your kindness.

[RushCrush]

Just found this on Wikipedia:

Allegation of plagiarism by Florence King In 1995, humorist Florence King wrote in a The American Enterprise column that Ivins had plagiarized King's work and mis-stated a quotation from a King column in a 1988 Mother Jones article.[2] David Rubien, writing in Salon, described the incident: "In a 1995 article for Mother Jones on Southern manners and mores, she extensively quoted, with affectionate attribution, statements from Florence King's book 'Southern Ladies and Gentlemen.' But for some careless reason Ivins still fails to comprehend, she left the attribution off a few King statements." [8] Ivins apologized in a letter to King. King published Ivins's apology and her own reply in a later article.

[IslandJeff]

That's a guy who hopes he won't get run over standing in the very middle of the eight lane highway.

Understood. I think, longingly, back on all those great Centrists in history. People who really stood for principles of Western civilization's Common Law, unless, well, the standing (or act thereof) offended someone and/or couldn't be defended.

My guess is a thought-free bloke who wanted to sign an online guessbook.

Rest, Molly Ivins. Who will ever replace you?

[RushCrush]

Well said, both of you.

[Fiddlstix]

Ditto

[RightOnline]

Condolences to her family.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Lenin and Stalin were good writers, and Hitler had a best seller, and they were "human beings" too. Were their deaths "a loss"?

There is good and there is evil. Those who support evil, even if it is through ignorance, don't deserve to be praised or respected for their stupidity or cupidity. Too many people died because of their actions or lack thereof.

Respect is reserved for those who earned it, not those who needlessly caused it.

[B-Chan]

May God rest her soul and comfort her loved ones.

[Torie]

Ivins was very entertaining with her little comments, and got under folks' skin whom she wanted to irritate. I will miss her. She was naughty and irresponsible and fun. Who could ask for more?

[Contra]

If I was a liberal I would say something like "rot in hell, dumb bi*ch" but since I'm not a liberal I won't say something like that.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Nice description Revolting Cat.

Another way to view a "centrist" is a guy who stands in the middle of the road and gets hits from both sides, Left and Right.

Another definition of a "centrist" is one who is a fence-sitter and who won't make a decision. All they get is a fence post up their wazoo.

The other joke is that the Vietnamese were also waiting to see who was winning the war, the US or Hanoi, before many of them made a decision as to who to support. Therefore, if they had been on the Titanic, they would have gone up on deck to get the best deck chairs to watch what was going on.

Gallows humor and morque humor are sometimes very funny. Or as the late Zaqari in Iraq said, "Sometimes you just can't get a head in this game."

Remember, the undertaker is your best friend for he is the last one to let you down.

Ziiiiiinnnngggg!

[AliVeritas]

Rest in Peace. May God comfort and strengthen her family.

For all in media still living... a lot of prayers.

[Rte66]

Psst ... I was trying to say something nice.

[EndWelfareToday]

Damn Shame if you ask me. Now she's to begin her eternal pilgrimage separated from God.

[YHAOS]

"I have never understood why the act of dying entitles someone respect they did not earn in life."

I think mainly it's because they no longer can protect themselves."

[GSlob]

It's not columnist, but columniac, or maybe calumnist.

[Luke21]

I'm always entertained by these people who would have been screaming what a Bolshevik cretin she was just a couple of days ago, but now sing her praises and wail with grief. What hypocrisy. She died and now is suddenly this wonderful American cultural icon? I understand why liberals would believe this. But us??? It's sickening.

I couldn't stand this woman. I thought that she was a vicious hack. I still think she was a vicious hack. Did I wish that she die some kind of horrible death? Of course not. But her writings, or rather, rantings, are not something Freepers and conservatives should be celebrating. This woman was a Marxist.

I understand a desire not to speak ill of the dead, but sometimes it gets carried away here. You'd think some of these folks were preaching her funeral.