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Molly Ivins

American Journalist

Born: Aug 30, 1944

Died: Jan 31, 2007

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Raise hell - big time. I want y'all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there's a world out there that needs fixing. Get out there and get after it. Molly Ivins

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Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. Molly Ivins

Freedom Justice Have Fun Laughter Fighting Ring Outrageous Lord Doin Oddity Forget Forth Produce Your Fun Ridicule Keep Rejoice

There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day. Molly Ivins

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Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists. Molly Ivins

Out Some Always Prejudice Racists Old-Fashioned Brings

The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits. Molly Ivins

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I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were 'German dogs.' They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds. Molly Ivins

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office. Molly Ivins

You Vote Women Money Say Drink Take Around Texas Office Legislature Screw Anyway Against Whiskey They Say Belong

There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief. Molly Ivins

Truth Tired Country Relief Only Bull Provide Times

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do. Molly Ivins

Car Unlike Guns

The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. Molly Ivins

Life Politics Money Paper Stakes Chips Your Play

I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. Molly Ivins

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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. Molly Ivins

Satire Weapon Powerful Powerless Against

In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster. Molly Ivins

It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that. Molly Ivins

Disagree Possible Hating Someone Policies Without Them Really Grown-Ups

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. Molly Ivins

Freedom You Justice Have Fun Laughter Ring Outrageous Lord Doin Oddity Forget Forth Produce Your Fun Ridicule Keep Rejoice

We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them. Molly Ivins

Good Our Laugh More Officials Them Elected Us Elected Officials Should

Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state. Molly Ivins

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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. Molly Ivins

Freedom Outrageous Produce Ridicule Rejoice

As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism. Molly Ivins

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I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it's all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff - the extent that it's become one giant infotainment industry. Molly Ivins

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