An oldie but goodie, in which she says of Dan Quayle, "I honestly think if you put that man's brain in a bumblebee it would fly backwards":
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, liberal[1][2] political commentator, and humorist. Born in California and raised in Texas, Ivins attended Smith College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her journalism career at the Minneapolis Tribune where she became the first female police reporter at the paper. She joined the Texas Observer in the early 1970s and later moved to The New York Times. She moved to the Dallas Times Herald in the 1980s as a columnist, finally settling in at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram where her syndicated column reached 400 newspapers.
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This one's long, and from before the 2004 election, but extremely worth watching:
Also from Wiki, linked above:
In 1970 Ivins left the Tribune for Austin, Texas to be the co-editor and political reporter for the Texas Observer.[3] She covered the Texas Legislature and befriended folklorist John Henry Faulk, Secretary of State Bob Bullock and future Governor Ann Richards, among others. She also gained increasing national attention through op-ed and feature stories in The New York Times and The Washington Post along with a busy speaking schedule inside and outside Texas.[3] The Times, concerned that its prevailing writing style was too staid and lifeless, hired her away from the Observer in 1976,[7] and she wrote for the Times until 1982. During her run there, Ivins became Rocky Mountain bureau chief, covering nine western states, although the writer was known to say she was named chief because there was no one else in the bureau.[8] Ivins also wrote the obituary for Elvis Presley in The New York Times for the August 17, 1977 edition. Generally, her more colorful writing style clashed with the editors' expectations, and in 1980, after she wrote about a "community chicken-killing festival" in New Mexico and called it a "gang-pluck," she was recalled to New York as punishment. When Abe Rosenthal, editor of the Times, accused her of trying to inspire readers to think "dirty thoughts" with these words, her response was, "Damn if I could fool you, Mr. Rosenthal." One friend saw her rebellion against the Times authority structure as a continuation of her rebellion against her father's authority.[3] In late 1981, after receiving an offer from the Dallas Times Herald to write a column about anything she liked, Ivins left New York for Dallas.[3]
I don't have time tonight to delve through all forty decades of her writing for the many
bon mots but Alternet has a bunch of them, if not all. Here's the link I followed, but Alternet might have much more; certainly they have more than one thing come up in a regular Google search.
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