[Dialogue] Remembering Molly

[Harry Wainwright]

Published on Friday, February 2, 2007 by the Texas Observer
<http://www.texasobserver.org>  

Remembering Molly 

by Bill Moyers 

 

What a foot-stompin' reunion there must be at this very moment in that great
Purgatory of Journalists in the Sky. I can see them now-Ida Tarbell, Lincoln
Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Upton Sinclair, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Ida B.
Wells, David Graham Phillips, George Seldes, I. F. Stone, Walter Karp,
Willie Morris-welcoming our darlin' to their bosoms. 

Oh, my, how she comes trailing clouds of truth-telling glory! Look at
her-big-hearted as ever, leaning over the balustrade and reaching down to
the tormented of Hades, moistening Tom DeLay's lips, patting down Bob
Perry's hair, erasing George W's sandstone scribblings. In the celestial
light she glows as irrepressibly and vividly as she did here on Earth, where
she made the mighty humble, the wicked ashamed, and the good ol' boys reach
for the barrel to hide their forlorn nakedness. And, oh, the stories she
must be telling as we speak. 

At a PBS meeting a few years ago, she ended her talk with a joke that would
have gotten anyone else arrested or excommunicated. But she was carried out
on the crowd's shoulders, as right now she is being ushered into the Council
of Ink-Stained Immortals, where the only religion is truth. Save some room
up there, Molly: You have inspired us earthbound wretches to keep trying to
live up to your legacy in the hope of joining you there one day. 

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