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Molly Ivins: I prefer (Original Post) sheshe2 Oct 2017 OP
She would have loved writing about drump janterry Oct 2017 #1
She would have dumped him on YUGE fat rump. sheshe2 Oct 2017 #2
I miss her, too. Philistein Oct 2017 #3
A song for Molly ghostsinthemachine Oct 2017 #4
I so appreciate your posting this video Sucha NastyWoman Oct 2017 #6
I went to that Rolling Thunder too RussBLib Oct 2017 #9
She is the awesome. ghostsinthemachine Oct 2017 #13
Absolutely Prescient Today As Ever! DoctorJoJo Oct 2017 #5
She was a great writer. Willie Pep Oct 2017 #7
Now she was a woman who knew how to make words do whatever she wanted. MLAA Oct 2017 #8
You miss Molly Ivans? SharonClark Oct 2017 #10
Molly Ivins was a great lady Gothmog Oct 2017 #11
Molly was one of our best ever. oasis Oct 2017 #12

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,748 posts)
6. I so appreciate your posting this video
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 11:37 PM
Oct 2017

I was fortunate enough to meet Molly before she left us, and like anyone who knew her, I miss her and think about her a lot. i met her at a Rolling Thunder Festival that Jim Hightower put together in Austin, in 2002. I also got to meet Katrina vanden Heuvel and Granny D.

I have never heard this song before that I remember, but I saw Carolyn Wonderland play a Poodie's Roadhouse just west of Austin, earlier this year. She put on a hell of a show.
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RussBLib

(9,006 posts)
9. I went to that Rolling Thunder too
Wed Oct 11, 2017, 12:30 AM
Oct 2017

We got to interview Molly, Jim Hightower, Granny D, Jesse Jackson, Jr. and several others for a Houston access TV show we were producing.

It felt like we were in the middle of something great, but I clearly remember Nancy Pelosi proclaiming a few years later that impeachment of Bush was off the table. Hit me like a ton of bricks.

No, we Democrats want to "look forward and not backward."

Big mistake. Huge fucking mistake.

ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)
13. She is the awesome.
Wed Oct 11, 2017, 02:14 PM
Oct 2017

Her music amazing but she is a dedicated lefty as well who is unafraid to speak truth. One of my favorite people on this planet. Oh yeah, Girl can sing too.

Willie Pep

(841 posts)
7. She was a great writer.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 11:38 PM
Oct 2017

Too bad she is not alive today. She was a very powerful and effective critic of George W. Bush. Funny too. I am sure she would rip Trump to shreds.

MLAA

(17,282 posts)
8. Now she was a woman who knew how to make words do whatever she wanted.
Wed Oct 11, 2017, 12:16 AM
Oct 2017

Here is hoping that somewhere there is another Molly working away, building her craft and soon ready to emerge on the scene. We need her.

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