Molly Ivins

Molly Ivins (born August 30, 1944, as Mary Tyler Ivins) is an American political commentator, journalist, and author based in Austin, Texas. She is a syndicated columnist with nationwide distribution; her column appears in over 300 newspapers across the United States. Her articles have appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Harper's, The Progressive, The Progressive Populist, and Mother Jones. She has been a commentator for NPR, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and 60 Minutes.

Plagiarism and Incorrect Statistics

In 1995, humorist Florence King wote in a The American Enterprise column that Ivins had plagiarized King's work and mis-stated a quotation from a King column in a 1988 Mother Jones article. Ivins apologized in a letter to King. King published Ivins's letter and King's own reply in a later article.

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In a 2005 column, Ivins incorrectly stated that Iraqi civilian deaths due to the Iraq War exceeded the number of Iraqis killed by Saddam Hussain. Ivins later printed a very apologetic retraction http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/23493/.

Related Topics:
2005 - Iraq War - Saddam Hussain

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