{"id":110,"date":"2007-05-09T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/05\/09\/keith-olbermann-wins-aans-1st-molly-ivins-award\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T20:15:00","slug":"keith-olbermann-wins-aans-1st-molly-ivins-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/05\/09\/keith-olbermann-wins-aans-1st-molly-ivins-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Olbermann Wins AAN&#8217;s 1st Molly Ivins Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) has announced\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aan.org\/alternative\/Aan\/ViewArticle?oid=oid%3A184044\">the finalists in\u00a0this year&#8217;s AltWeekly Awards.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(No, I&#8217;m not\u00a0one of the finalists, but I&#8217;m\u00a0proud to say that I was one of the judges &#8230; in the political columnist category.)<\/p>\n<p>The AAN has also announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3036677\/\">MSNBC news anchor Keith Olbermann<\/a> is the winner of its first annual Molly Ivins Award. In accepting the honor, Olbermann said, \u201cI\u2019m utterly honored, largely because I\u2019d still like to be Molly Ivins when I grow up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the finalists and to the wonderful Keith Olbermann.\u00a0 What a great choice!\u00a0 I&#8217;m betting\u00a0that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/02\/01\/ode-to-the-great-molly-ivins\/\">the late, great Molly Ivins<\/a> would approve.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0=========<\/p>\n<p>And now some links, for your (and viewing) pleasure:<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/soqueer.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/carnival-of-liberals-38.html\">Carnival of the Liberals<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/rantsopinions.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/blog-carnival-70506.html\">Worldwide Opinions<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopoli.com\/carnival-of-commentary\/carnival-of-commentary-2\">Carnival Of Commentary<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/silflayhraka.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/carnival_of_the_vanities_242.html\">Carnival of the Vanities<\/a> [tags]Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, AAN, Keith Olbermann, Molly Ivins[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) has announced\u00a0\u00a0the finalists in\u00a0this year&#8217;s AltWeekly Awards.\u00a0\u00a0(No, I&#8217;m not\u00a0one of the finalists, but I&#8217;m\u00a0proud to say that I was one of the judges &#8230; in the political columnist category.) The AAN has also announced that MSNBC news anchor Keith Olbermann is the winner of its first annual Molly Ivins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-molly-ivins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}