Missing Molly Ivins: PAUL KRUGMAN ; U.S. troops kept Iraqi brains in fridge as trophies + by PAUL KRUGMAN - The New York Times Friday Feb 2nd, 2007 6:09 AM KRUGMAN: The Texas columnists satire was only the means to an end: holding the powerful accountable.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE --> OP-ED COLUMNIST Missing Molly Ivins By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: February 2, 2007 Molly Ivins, the Texas columnist, died of breast cancer on Wednesday. I first met her more than three years ago, when our book tours crossed. She was, as she wrote, a card-carrying member of The Great Liberal Backlash of 2003, one of the half-dozen or so writers now schlepping around the country promoting books that do not speak kindly of Our Leaders record. I cant claim to have known her well. But I spent enough time with her, and paid enough attention to her work, to know that obituaries that mostly stressed her satirical gifts missed the main point. Yes, she liked to poke fun at the powerful, and was very good at it. But her satire was only the means to an end: holding the powerful accountable. She explained her philosophy in a stinging 1995 article in Mother Jones magazine about Rush Limbaugh. Satire has historically been the weapon of powerless people aimed at the powerful, she wrote. When you use satire against powerless people it is like kicking a cripple. Molly never lost sight of two eternal truths: rulers lie, and the times when people are most afraid to challenge authority are also the times when its most important to do just that. And the fact that she remembered these truths explains something I havent seen pointed out in any of the tributes: her extraordinary prescience on the central political issue of our time. --MORE-- http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/02/missing-molly-ivins-paul-krugman.html Labels: activism, Bush, Iraq, journalism, News, PAUL KRUGMAN, Politics, The New York Times, war Dangerous Weeks Ahead in the Middle East http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/02/dangerous-weeks-ahead-in-middle-east.html U.S. troops kept Iraqi brains in fridge as trophies http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/02/us-troops-kept-iraqi-brains-in-fridge.html This is like Hitler's Suicide Order from the Bunker http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/02/this-is-like-hitlers-suicide-order-from.html And More http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/ New website http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/ Alternate website with unique articles CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS MARC PARENT mparent7777 mparent --------------------------------- Share your photos with the people who matter at Yahoo! Canada Photos
