{"id":3419,"date":"2005-07-04T13:22:20","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T21:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/04\/molly-ivins-americas-greatest-comedian\/"},"modified":"2005-07-04T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2005-07-04T21:22:20","slug":"molly-ivins-americas-greatest-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/04\/molly-ivins-americas-greatest-comedian\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Ivins: America’s greatest comedian"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tMolly Ivins complains that the right twists liberals’ positions around:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Setting up a straw man, calling it liberal and then knocking it down has become a favorite form of “argument” for those on the right. Make some ridiculous claim about what “liberals” think, and then demonstrate how silly it is. Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and many other right-wing ravers never seem to get tired of this old game. If I had a nickel for every idiotic thing I’ve ever heard those on the right claim “liberals” believe, I’d be richer than Bill Gates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So she clarifies things with this boner:<\/p>\n

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I think we have alienated our allies and have killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think we should take Molly’s wishes to heart and carefully and correctly state her positions and those of people who think as she does.<\/p>\n

It’s much more damning to use direct quotes like this one. Jeff Bishop has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Happy Independence Day.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Molly Ivins complains that the right twists liberals’ positions around: Setting up a straw man, calling it liberal and then knocking it down has become a favorite form of “argument” for those on the right. Make some ridiculous claim about what “liberals” think, and then demonstrate how silly it is. Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and many … Continue reading “Molly Ivins: America’s greatest comedian”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-T9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}