Comments on: Molly Ivins: Saddam Even Worse than Shrub

By: Dean's World

Dean's World — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 02:40:47 +0000

Molly Ivins Is Not A Complete Idiot

Well, I am impressed. It appears that Molly Ivins is not a complete idiot after all.

I’m impressed.

By: Pigilito

Pigilito — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:00:07 +0000

Molly Ivins is one the few columnists capable of making M. Dowd look like a research expert.

Were Ivins prepared to own up to all her boners, my request for retraction would be for something she wrote during the runup to the Iraq war.

In the article, written to explain why France wasn’t taking part, she makes some whopper claims. Aside from giving the French credit for being morally opposed to unilateralism, she asserted that the Algerian war produced some of the bloodiest battles in history (forgetting such sanguinary affairs as Gettysburg, Stalingrad, and any number of WWI battles); and that colonialism was far worse than both Nazism and Stalinism (as evidence she recommended a book detailing the colonial history of the Belgium Congo all while noting that France’s colonial record was spotty. She never picked up on the fact that France wasn’t the colonial master in the BC).

By: ttyler5

ttyler5 — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:21:41 +0000

Just keep Molly Ivins away from my leg and my butt!

ttyler5
Texas

By: Patterico

Patterico — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:30:49 +0000

The woman annoys me, but this is the kind of stand-up admission of guilt that really enhances someone’s credibility. Good for her. Would that those in Big Media would own up to their mistakes so completely and forthrightly on a regular basis.

By: Veeshir

Veeshir — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:41:55 +0000

I had to go back and re-read your headline as I first read it as “Molly Ivins: Shrub even worse than Saddam.”
Which is a fine example of reading what you expect. My response was, “Yeah, and?”
That surely is a man humps dog story.