you know, in honor of molly ivins. they denied for ever until the pigs come home in minnesota that it was just quite a coincidence, that the minneapolis police to barbin had a pig named molly. it was a little bit of their wiseguy retribution i guess. molly left there because she couldn't stand being stifled by the paper. she felt -- she was dying on the high altar of objectivity. so what did molly ivins do? she called the collector the paper one day when she was out of town and resigned. so she had a lot. she called him collect and we accept the charges from molly ivins? yes. i'm quitting, bostick so they pay for it and in some. that's molly ivins as well. there's many examples. my goodness, the courage to do this, she decided on her way out of town after she resigned collect, to write a story in the alternative newspaper, the austin chronicle, if you will, of minneapolis. that i call, forgive me, the mother of all sq letters. forgive me. i'm sorry. but that's what it was. she wrote several thousand word article in whi

and i just simply said well, you never met molly ivins then did you? ilors would leave the room when molly began speaking. she was unfiltered and she just was that way. she didn't die on the high altar of objectivity or politeness in some ways. >> i have a question. something is very confusing to me, having grown up in dallas. molly could not have helped, would've known what the "dallas morning news" was and what dallas was. and so, why would she choose to work there? >> she worked at "the dallas times herald" -- >> the "dallas morning news." >> forgive me if i did. she went to the times herald. we actually bought -- we bought the times herald at one point and maybe that might have gendered some confusion. for many it was the more progressive more liberal. what did she say that the "dallas morning news" was to the right of attila the hind and appleby unready. and the editors i could tell worked there. they did not like molly. we're not going to get into bidding war. there was a bidding war is offered at "the dallas times herald." here's a difference in

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