CR Gazette likens Molly Ivins to Ann Coulter

rurallib

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Tue May-03-05 06:18 PM
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CR Gazette likens Molly Ivins to Ann Coulter

Damn I blew my email from RapidResponse away. One of the members received a reply from Mark Bowden of the Gazette saying that Ann Coulter is extreme right but Molly Ivins is extreme left-wing and no one complains about her.
If anyone feels like telling Mr. Bowden the difference here is a contact address:

mark.bowden@gazettecommunications.com

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Kerrytravelers

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Tue May-03-05 06:22 PM
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1. Well, Mr. Bowde, Ivins doesn't suggest assassinating a president.

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jedr

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Tue May-03-05 06:22 PM
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2. the difference is; Molly tells the truth!

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nytemare

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Tue May-03-05 06:31 PM
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5. Molly isn't an insipid, hateful, turd monger either!

Ann Coulter is worse than butt hair residue.

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Warpy

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Tue May-03-05 06:38 PM
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7. The difference is that Molly's a whisker left of center

whereas Coulter is so far right that most of the poeple who consider themselves fans think she's gone off the deep end.

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jedr

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Tue May-03-05 09:12 PM
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10. Today, Nixon would be just left of center;

However,I agree with what you said

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proud2BlibKansan

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Tue May-03-05 06:22 PM
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3. mann lies

while Molly is truthful.

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kainah

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Tue May-03-05 06:23 PM
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4. is the paper owned by Lee Enterprises?

Our paper, the Casper Star Tribune in Casper, WY, is owned by Lee Enterprises -- which I think is based somewhere in Iowa -- and shortly after Lee bought them, the paper has run Molly Ivins and Ann Coulter on Fridays saying they were a good balance to each other.

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Barak And Roll

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Tue May-03-05 07:14 PM
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8. Lee Enterprises

I work for a the Editorial Dept. of a Lee paper in Iowa and we run Ivins twice weekly along with Ellen Goodman and Leonard Pitts a couple times a week. Recently, a bunch of readers have written in saying we need to balance Ivins with Ann Coulter but we run one Krauthammer a week for conservative readers.

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Bluzmann57

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Tue May-03-05 07:52 PM
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9. So you work for the Quad-City Times?

What you are saying sounds very familiar. I subscribe to the aforementioned paper and find it to be fair, although they have mechanical problems from time to time. Welcome to DU from the Quad Cities. If you do work for the QC Times, remember to thank Barb I. for being a real reporter.

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kainah

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Tue May-03-05 10:19 PM
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11. Welcome to DU, Barak & Roll

and what a great screen name!

We don't get Krauthammer but the right tilt of Lee has been evident ever since they purchased the Star-Tribune which (actually correctly) had the reputation of being a really liberal paper in this very conservative state.

As you can imagine, I miss my old newspaper.

WELCOME TO DU!! :toast:

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Blue Gardener

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Wed May-04-05 06:31 PM
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13. I believe they are independently owned

Gazette Communications is who I send my subsciption to (at least up to now). The also own KCRG TV.

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flyingfysh

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Tue May-03-05 06:38 PM
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6. I remember another comparison

I remember in 1950s South Carolina, people would say that the Ku Klux Klan was bad, but also that Martin Luther King was bad in the other direction. This is a stupid thing to say, but people were saying it then - perhaps as a way to ignore what MLK was trying to tell them.

It sounds like someone is looking for an excuse to ignore Molly Ivins.

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progressoid

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Wed May-04-05 02:13 PM
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12. WTF??

That's beyond ridiculous.

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