Molly Ivins: The stench of the Bush administration will sicken all

Naples Daily News ^ | November 5, 2004 | Molly Ivins

[KC_Conspirator]

Is Ivins not the idiot that wrote "The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush"? Now he's been elected to 2 terms as POTUS. Who looks like the Texas village idiot now, Molly?

[BJClinton]

I stopped reading anything Molly writes years ago. Who did she plagarize?

[Darkwolf377]

Florence King. But there have been others, I'm just too lazy to look em up:



http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/005528.php

As many are aware, this is not Molly’s first offence. She earlier lifted some material from writer Florence King. Salon described this episode tamely:

In a 1995 article for Mother Jones on Southern manners and mores, she extensively quoted, with affectionate attribution, statements from Florence King's book "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen." But for some careless reason Ivins still fails to comprehend, she left the attribution off a few King statements. In other words, she plagiarized. This, needless to say, is the ultimate no-no for a writer, and has cost many scribes their jobs. But considering the fact that Ivins' guilty passages were mixed in with many other cases that were attributed, her crime did not seem too horrible; she apologized to King and that was the end of it.


This report records a less conciliatory outcome:

The formidable Florence King has convincingly demonstrated that another Southern writer, Molly Ivins, has lifted her material without attribution, and changed material that she does attribute to Miss King. "If we had the right kind of laws in this country," said Miss King, "I'd challenge her to a duel over this." Miss Ivins, to her credit, has fessed up and apologized. Miss King is not entirely mollified.


She sure isn’t. And here’s yet another Ivins plagiarism claimant, although the reliability of this guy is open to question ...

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[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Memo to Molly: Avoid the word stench when shooting off your mouth. It only leaves the unpleasant image of you in readers' minds.

[BJClinton]

Miss King is not entirely mollified.

Ahem, I'd say she was quite thoroughly Mollified...

[Not A Snowbird]

finding internal memos from Merck showing that company officials may have been aware of the dangers of Vioxx as long ago as 1996

Let's see... who was President in 1996?

[BibChr]

I pretty much have to defer to Molly Ivins' expertise in matters of stench and sickening.

Dan

[wita]

Thanks for the picture. I was getting tired of the black and white one found in our local paper. It was old and didn't do her justice. I feel better now, Rush has a theory about leftist babes, and Molly is proof positive that his theory is actually real science.

[MeekOneGOP]

:^D