Nader on Molly Ivins

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I like his Bill Moyers for president push!
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Published on Monday, February 5, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
For Molly Ivins
by Ralph Nader

If writers, who lasso injustice and give light to justice, lift up our standards of fair play, then on January 31st, the nation suffered a genuine decline. For Molly Ivins lost her seven year battle with cancer and joined what her friend Bill Moyers called "that great Purgatory of Journalists in the Sky."

Author and columnist syndicated in 400 newspapers, Austin, Texas-based Molly Ivins skewered pompous politicians, raked over corporate criminals and spotlighted the struggles of regular folks against the repressions and maraudings of the Big Boys and their Big Power.

It is a tribute to Molly that the various columns written in her praise each presented a different side of this remarkable Texas maverick and satirist.

New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, who teaches economics at Princeton, wrote of "her extraordinary prescience on the central political issue of our time" - the invasion and occupation of Iraq. She warned about the risks some five months before Bush took the U.S.A and its soldiers into this deepening quagmire and its boomerang impact. She warned about the dangers of "'the peace' which sure looks like a quagmire," in January, July and October of 2003.

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