We should probably just make “stupid thing said by the Statesman editorial page” a daily feature, but this one particularly struck us: In today’s tribute to the late Molly Ivins, the page tells us that (italics ours) “Molly appeared in Austin in 1970 as one of the editors of the feisty Texas Observer. In that era, when the Texas daily press was largely complacent and incurious …”

Guys, I know you meant to compliment her, but somewhere in heaven, Molly is laughing at you and rolling her eyes.

(Tell you what, just to be fair, we’ll give the daily its props: Bruce Hight wrote an excellent rebuttal to Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson’s regurgitation of that tired old lie: the notion that, for Southerners, slavery was not the central issue of the Civil War.)

This article appears in February 2 • 2007.

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