Molly Ivins: The excavation of deception

[Dudley_DUright]

There are messy-desk people and there are clean-desk people. I'm a major messy. About every six months, I am seized by a desire to Get Organized, so I start doing archaeological excavations into the midden heap on my desk. The result this time was a sort of time-lapse photography of where the country is headed.

Going through stacks of old newspaper articles, speeches, reports, studies and press releases at a high rate of speed left one overwhelming impression: deception ... government by deception. I'd like pass along some of what I found without the usual journalistic standards of sourcing because I want to recreate the impression it all left -- rather like leafing through a book rapidly, catching a sentence here and there. Leaving aside the missing weapons of mass destruction (hey, we found the oil), I found so many little things that fit the same pattern.

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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15400&CFID=8810992&CFTOKEN=9180300

[Rose Siding]

1. Ha! I love that she included this

"And I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again." -- Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly on "Good Morning America," March 18. end snip>

She was on the stage with O'bully and Franken at the book blow-out. Very good, Molly!

[SnohoDem]

2. Does anyone know

if O'Reilly has commented on this pledge?


(I can't stand to watch him.)

[northzax]

3. as I recall

he renewed it the other week, but thinks that the administration will produce evidence in September (that they aresitting on it for prime effect)

but he did say something along the lines of 'if they con't find WMD, Bush is in serious trouble'

[larryepke]

9. [e-mail]

Here's his email address.

Let's ask him when it's going to happen!

[fencesitter]

4. Would each Dem Candidate for President

please take Molly's list and repeat it loudly everywhere? Except Howard, he's got it.

[mainer]

5. Yay, Molly Ivins coming to speak in my town tonight!

She's scheduled to speak in our 800-seat school auditorium. Tickets are just about sold out! (And we live in a small town!)

[fencesitter]

6. Do you live in Maine?

Wish she'd come here to SE Penna, of course it's so conservative here noone would know about it if she did.

[mainer]

7. Yep, I live in midcoast maine

we have a lot of liberals here. A lot of ANGRY liberals. This is prime Molly Ivins territory.

[berry]

8. My personal favorite of Molly's points--the birth tax

<<The "death tax," as the Republicans so cleverly misnamed the estate tax, which affects 2 percent of all Americans, has now been replaced by the Bush birth tax -- if you're born in this country, you're in debt -- you have to help pay back the money the Bushies took out of Social Security, plus the interest on the debts they're running up.>>

This should definitely be used in all campaigns against *. Besides being true, it's clever and it "sticks."

[GAspnes]

10. "birth tax" is perfect

I'm picking that one up. Hope everyone does.