Molly Ivins interviewed by Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff, Berkeley, CA. (KPFA Cover to Cover); Molly Ivins interviewed by Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff, Berkeley, CA. (KPFA Cover to Cover)

  • "You Got to Dance With Them What Brung Ya"
  • Presidential Penis
  • Camp of Clinton haters
  • Well organized campaign to destroy him
  • Gore Vidal
  • Richard Mellonsgate
  • Generational resentment of 1960's hippies
  • Self hating boomer
  • Weak Governor tradition
  • Compromise, consensus building & persuasion
  • Clinton has no "hard ball"
  • Nobody's afraid of Bill Clinton
  • Media obsessed with the story
  • People have lost perspective
  • Fell in love with Texas Legislature
  • Chips on table are people's lives
  • State legislatures are politics most zaniest.
  • Mighty fine fodder in Sacramento
  • Mayor Willie Brown, Oakland, CA
  • Campaign financing is the root of the rot.
  • McCain-Feingold Bill
  • Newt Gingrich
  • Great thing about Texas is that you know things were not better in the old days.
  • Rush Limbaugh & Newt Gingrich have contributed to the meanness of American Politics
  • Sam Rayburn & John Nance Gardiner
  • Sam Rayburn was a populist hero.
  • Gardiner "Vice Presidency not worth pitcher of warm spit."
  • Tactics of meanness & ugliness
  • Believes that elections can be won with positivity
  • Barbara Jordan
  • Pat Buchanan is a nice human being but a mean political being
  • Fundamentalist Christians have power outside of their numbers
  • Separation of Church & State
  • First Ammendment contains all the important elements
  • Definition of populism is not very well defined
  • Racism used as a wedge to defeat populism. Kept those at the bottom fighting each other.
  • Illegal merger
  • Government is on the corporate payroll
  • Interview credits
  • Pacifica news