P.D.S. Alert! Palin banning books, before even in print. She has to be stopped, at all costs!
H/T to Michelle Malkin.
CAUTION: This is a sarcasm alert. Much of the following content will be chock full of sarcasm…with a side or two of satire. The intellect-deficient and the humor-challenged should stop reading now. That is all.
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The nerve of Sarah Palin to be banning all those books in Wasilla in 1996. What? She didn’t really ban them? What? You say some of them weren’t even in print?
Palin Derangement Syndrome strikes again. This time it’s hysterical librarians and their readers on the Internet disseminating a bogus list of books Gov. Sarah Palin supposedly banned in 1996. Looks like some of these library people failed reading comprehension. Take a look at the list below and you’ll find books Gov. Palin supposedly tried to ban…that hadn’t even been published yet. Example: The Harry Potter books, the first of which wasn’t published until 1998…
Ooops! Never mind. *blush*
Don’t you suppose any of the smear merchants responsible for this latest attack were smart enough to do a Google search and find that the list they used was almost an exact replica of one that has been making the rounds on the internet for years?
Stop the ACLU notes that the Obama campaign site is also helping to spread this newest falsehood. What?! Say it isn’t so, Barack. You said you would not stand for baseless smears.
Where’s it going next, Craigs List? What?! It’s already there? Okay. But, that is just one lone incident on that site. It’s not? Gosh! Where does something like this start?
This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned. As many of you will notice it is a hit parade for book burners.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
Okay……being a little more serious now…..
The librarian that operates the site where this started did leave the original post up but pointed out that Andrew Aucoin’s assertions are baseless.
“there appears to be no truth to the claim made by the commenter, and no further documentation or support for this has turned up.”
But, as if all of this other stuff wasn’t enough, the print media has to be in on it. (Emphasis mine)…
Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so.
According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired. The censorship issue was not mentioned as a reason for the firing. The letter just said the new mayor felt Emmons didn’t fully support her and had to go.
Emmons had been city librarian for seven years and was well liked. After a wave of public support for her, Palin relented and let Emmons keep her job.
It all happened 12 years ago and the controversy long ago disappeared into musty files. Until this week. Under intense national scrutiny, the issue has returned to dog her. It has been mentioned in news stories in Time Magazine and The New York Times and is spreading like a virus through the blogosphere.
The stories are all suggestive, but facts are hard to come by. Did Palin actually ban books at the Wasilla Public Library?
…Were any books censored banned? June Pinell-Stephens, chairwoman of the Alaska Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee since 1984, checked her files Wednesday and came up empty-handed.Pinell-Stephens also had no record of any phone conversations with Emmons about the issue back then. Emmons was president of the Alaska Library Association at the time.
Geez! What’s next?!
Tags: Banned Books, Election '08, PDS, Sarah Palin
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September 6, 2008 at 1:21 am
Can we say Desperate!!!
It is obvious McCain’s trying to gain support from (some) Hillary supporters and aiming towards WORKING MOMs WITH CHILDREN.
I’m sorry but it’s back fired royally.
PTA meetings and monthly council meeting isn’t enough.
Actual Working Mom’s do not Trust Palin and believe she is just a puppet.
YES, she is no Hillary or Oprah.
YES, she is not the INSPIRATION and CHANGE we want representing all of us.
Her resume is weak. It’s high school all over again and Miss Alaska is the two face prom queen.
Let’s VOTE for a WOMAN who REALLY WANTS to MAKE A CHANGE.
Instead of voting for someone following the click.
SHAME ON YOU, McCain for choosing a DESPERATE woman (who’s been losing supporters in ALASKA) for your own selfish and fraught plans.
IF YOU 18 YRS OLD OR JUST BECAME A US CITIZEN, PLEASE REGISTER TO VOTE.
WE ALL HAVE A VOICE, BY NOT VOTING YOUR VOICE WILL BE SILENT.
September 6, 2008 at 2:29 am
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September 6, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Just the fact that Sarah Palin “hypothetically” questioned how to ban books is enough. We’ve already decided that censorship is unAmerican. It’s a slippery slope! In fact, how can anyone possibly ever condone the banning of books? How can we trust the judgment of anyone who would ever even “hypothetically” inquire how to ban books? We can’t. That’s a pretty basic right folks, the right to read and think whatever we want.
September 6, 2008 at 7:34 pm
At the risk of sounding like an Obamaniac…“Yes. we can.. But, I’m curious, are you just trying to project with this post in the comments or tell us that you are desperate?
Uh, in case you are behind the curve and just haven’t been told better, there is no other “WOMAN” in the presidential race for whom you can vote. Remember? The One picked another man that has even been in D.C. longer than John McCain.
Gladys, do you realize that Sarah Palin is the top ranked governor in the nation, right? Not that I want to let such things get in your way but….well…you know. It is good to be informed.
September 6, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Carol, I’m not much on the arbitrary banning of books in libraries myself. But, there are certain types of printed publications that do not need to be in the public libraries, where we take our children to learn and enjoy, unless you want to put an adult section in the libraries for things like Playboy, Penthouse or other pornographic works. But, that is just me. I believe there are limits at some point.
However, the “what if” argument is pretty slipper too. If for no other reason that that fact that nothing actually happened for which to castigate someone. In this case, that “someone” would be Sarah Palin who did not ban any books.
September 7, 2008 at 12:25 am
I asked at our local library one time how one goes about banning a book. I didn’t tell then why… I wanted to know the process because I heard a group was going to try to ban some books . Bibles… I just wanted to know that it would be hard to do in case they tried. Did that make me a bad person? I just wanted the information in case they tried and know how to stop them. This issue is silly.
Next it will be she asked someone where the mens roon was for one of her kids.
This stuff doesn’t stop the pork spending or put people back to work..
These kinds of questions are raised by people that need to get a life in both parties.
We American people are over it..
September 7, 2008 at 12:38 am
What iswrong with the people in this country? Is it jealousy, or do you just not think a woman is qualified to do a job that requires a little of what Hussein lacks, like conviction ,being able to think for himself on the spur of the moment, being able to remember what button to push, doing more than just being present at roll calls, having crooked friends, Maybe actually having someone that can answer questions for herself scears you but i for one am glad there is someone running in this race that’s not afraid of the regulars. I am a dem. voting rep. this year.
September 9, 2008 at 4:41 am
To “Sharon”,I have done my research on Sen. Obama, and so have many of the others who support him. Maybe that is why he is attracting the most educated progressives in this nation; maybe it is because they do their homework, and do not rely on name recognition to determine whom to vote for.
So to inform you, please note the following articles that sum up just some of what Barack has “done” in his last 11 years in public office. I believe that it is important for you, as a public voice, to be informed:
His bold legislative work on the Illinois Death Penalty, and how he made a difference between life and death:
http://www.icadp.org/page236.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/12/obama.death.pena... /
His sponsorship of a bill that brought health insurance to 150,000, including 70,000 uninsured Children, again, during his time serving in the Illinois Statehouse:
http://factcheck.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/12/14/f...
http://mediamatters.org/items/200712170003
His work on both the Immigration bill during his time in the US senate and his sponsorship of Ethics legislation (something he did both while in the State House, and in the Senate) that called for some of the most impactful reform regarding lobbyists since Watergate (as he likes to term it):
http://factcheck.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/12/14/f...
http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/releases/07/01/200…
September 9, 2008 at 4:43 am
A bit more for the ignorant:
and his sponsored and co sponsored Bills in the U.S. Senate…….which include worthwhile bills dealing with a wide range of issues, from Election reform bills to the Cooperative Proliferation Detection reduction Act (w/t Sen. Lugar) to Internet database transparency Act.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/271 /
http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2005/Novembe...
http://obama.senate.gov/press/060908-senate_passes_c /
http://thomas.loc.gov / (Select Obama’s name from the Senator drop down)
This does not lists all of his accomplishments, nor does it deals with his accomplishments prior to entering elected office.
September 11, 2008 at 10:21 am
She didn’t create a banned book list. But she did in fact start the process of banning books and, worse, she threatened to fire someone for not going along with it. Since she already is under investigation for inappropriate firings and use of her position of power to terminate employment of people with whom she takes issue (see current Troopergate investigation) she proves herself a mere continuation of the crappy policies and misuse of power that is now plaguing Washington (see the firing of the Justice Department attorneys by the Bush administration for their standing up to Bush’s policies). My other big issue with her would be the out and out lie of her being against the “Bridge to Nowhere.” She supported the project big time and was part of the hiring of lobbyists to ram through the funding requests in Washington related to that bridge. It became a national embarrassment and two years later she became against it (thought Republicans were against flip-flopping in 2004).
September 11, 2008 at 10:45 am
“Troopergate” has been addressed before on other posts, Brian. But, here’s video on it, again, to save you some trouble. It starts at about the 2 minute mark. So, you may want to wait and see how that actually pans out from the officer having tased his own 10 year old child, unless you don’t find anything wrong with that.
Now, as for the “continuation of crappy policies and misuse of power that is now plaguing Washington,” Sarah Palin is the only one in the presidential race that is truly from outside Washington D.C.
You really need to research things better on the “bridge to nowhere.” People might get the wrong impression and think you are going off half-cocked or something.
September 12, 2008 at 7:41 am
Why would a mayor “hypothetically” ask a librarian about banning books and then attempt to fire said librarian? She only changed her mind because the town got angry.
September 17, 2008 at 2:07 pm
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