There’s no excuse for spreading misinformation just because it comes from someone in a high place.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1973-01), “Pitfalls of Reporting in the Lone Star State,” Houston Journalism Review
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Collected in Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (1991).