Molly Ivins bitch-slaps the media...

[kentuck]

http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/perspective/article/0,2071,NPDN_14966_2980327,00.html

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2) The media are overplaying the story and are also lazy and outrageous. (Never mind that it's the media's fault as much as the administration's that 69 percent of the American people were under the misimpression that Saddam Hussein was directly tied to 9-11.)

3) We never claimed he was behind 9-11. No, we never did — we may have implied it, we may have hinted, we may have suggested, insinuated, intimated, connoted, alluded to and said it between the lines, but we never said it, and you can't prove we did and we have no idea how the great majority of Americans ever got that silly idea in the first place. So stop reporting that it's not true.

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Water torture (that's the one they politely refer to as "stressful conditions") was a particular favorite of the Gestapo against the French Resistance in World War II. Anal rape and shoving broken light bulbs up the rear end don't count at all.

I'm so glad George W. Bush has restored honor and integrity to the White House. And I appreciate all his defenders in the media more than I can say. They are truly distinguishing themselves as patriots in this hour of need.

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[JerseygirlCT]

1. I just love her!

[Justitia]

2. Molly Ivins restores my Texas reputation

Thank God for you, Molly.
Can we have 10k more?

[Q3JR4]

3. I like her...

The local paper here always runs her pieces and it always does my heart good to read them.

[Q3JR4]

4. I like her...

The local paper here always runs her pieces and it always does my heart good to read them.

[Bandit]

5. One thing I can say about you is you are determined

I suspect this one will get locked also. I love Molly Ivins though and glad she is on our side. I love this first paragraph

1) Didn't make any difference because Saddam Hussein was a really, really bad guy anyway.

He was, of course, and it was always the only decent rationale for getting rid of him. It was the argument made by Tony Blair but specifically rejected by the Bush administration. Paul Wolfowitz explained in Vanity Fair that human rights violations were not a sufficient consideration for invasion.

[MaryH]

6. MOLLY JUST KEEPS ON WRITING

I think she was the main voice against this administration way before it was a popular position to take.

You go, girl!

[anarchy1999]

9. I am confused, why would this every be locked out of GD?

n/t

[TOhioLiberal]

12. Probably the...

'bitch-slap' reference. You know the B-word is forbidden...

[anarchy1999]

13. Oh, I hope the mods let this one slide, but probably not.

So sad, If it gets locked someone else needs to put it back up. I've got to leave the house now. Can you do it?

[BiggJawn]

14. Because of the "Bee Word"...

Didn't you get the memo? "Bitch-slap" is demeaning to bitches, and as GOOD Liberals, we must guard against demeaning or offending anyone, lest O'Reilly get his shorts in a twist....

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[anarchy1999]

15. My bad, and thank heavens, I've been warned.

n/t

[anarchy1999]

7. Good God, Ms. Molly! And I have yet to read the whole essay. Our Ms.

Molly is a TRUE TEXAS TREASURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Tee hee. Go, Molly, go!

[evil_orange_cat]

10. Ivins gives me hope about Texas. :D

I have to keep reminding myself that all Texans aren't like Delay and Bush.

[anarchy1999]

11. It's hard, but truly most of us are not bug exterminators or failures in

the oil industry. Kinda like knowing that all of Texas doesn't have tumbleweeds and cowboys.