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 Texas Observer's Molly National Journalism Prize |
I wasn't a close friend of Molly Ivins' but she made me feel like I was. She called me one day back in 1991 and asked if I
would mind if a CBS news crew came by Green Mesquite BBQ, my restaurant on Barton Springs, and tape a segment for "CBS Sunday Morning." She had published "Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?" and the CBS News crew were going to tape her in her natural habitat, I suppose. I said it was no big deal and that she and the "Yankee TV Folks" were welcome. Soon after the taping I received a "hate"
letter from a white supremacist organization which warned me to be careful because I was associating with a known jew lover, Molly Ivins. The letter freaked out me and my wife, Liz, quite a bit although they misspelled my business name (meskeet) and just about everything else. The next time I saw Molly I gave her the letter and she began laughing out loud immediately upon reading it. "Tom Davis, I don't think you have anything much to fret over." These cowards spelled
your name wrong, my name wrong, and your business name (greene meskeet) wrong. I get a bunch of these everyday. They still can't help confusing "Ivins" with "Evins" and these dorks actually believe that "Evins " is a southern Jewish surname." She then proceeded to tell me to sit down, relax and said "let me buy you a beer." I had my beer and tore up the letter a few minutes later. Bob Bullock, Lieutenant Governor of Texas, liked Molly and asked her for a date now and then. Bob told me after he and Molly finished a political event he followed her to her hotel room. With her key in the door she turns to Bob and says
"Sorry, Bob Bullock, but you are still a dirty lying politician...goodnight." Bob Bullock laughed and said, "Molly got me again!" Classic Molly, We will miss you.
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There have been quite a few stories about Molly, but my favorite is by Clarence Page of The Chicago Tribune. For a Adobe pdf file of the article click on Molly's picture below.
Molly at Scholz Garten (AP Photo)
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Scholz Garten: Friends and Politicos at Molly's Wake
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