"jo4hn" wrote in message
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Let's spend a few moments browsing the list of books Mayor Sarah Palin
tried to get town librarian Mary Ellen Baker to ban in the lovely,
all-American town of Wasilla, Alaska . When Baker refused to remove the
books from the shelves, Palin threatened to fire her. The story was
reported in Time Magazine and the list comes from the librarian.net
website.
I'm sure you'll find your own personal favorites among the
classics Palin wanted to protect the good people of Wasilla from, but the
ones that jumped out at me were the four Stephen King novels (way to go
Stephen, Joh n Steinbeck only got three titles on the list), that
notorious piece of communist pornography "My Friend Flicka," the usual
assortment of Harry Potter books, works by Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Kurt
Vonnegut, Mark Twain (always fun to see those two names together), Arthur
Miller, and Aristophanes, as well as "Our Bodies, Ourselves" (insert your
own Bristol Palin joke here), and the infamous one-two punch of depravity:
"To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Little Red Riding Hood." But the cherry on
the sundae, the topper, is Sarah Palin's passionate, religious mission to
clear the shelves of the Wasilia Public Library of that ultimate evil
tome: "Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary." That's the one with
"equality," "free speech" and "justice" in it.
Go over to your book case and take down one of the books
you'll find on the list (I know you've got a couple) and give it a read in
honor of the founding fathers. Then tell me I'm not the only voter who
doesn't want this woman within thirty feet of the United States
Constitution.
Sarah Palin's Book Club
Not that I'd vote for the ticket but did you bother to read any of your
own link? NOTE the last paragraph witht he high-lighted word "note."
Fair is fair (not that right-wingers care anything about playing fair).
Dave in Houston
Sarah Palin, VP nominee
Posted in hi | Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 | Trackback
Tags: banningbooks, books, libraries, sarahpalin
I try to keep "who to vote for" politics pretty well off of this blog and
prefer to discuss politics in general and better and worse strategies for
promoting libraries in whatever political climate we happen to be in. People
acutely interested in high level politics in the US who also work in
libraries may be interested in this Time magazine article about Sarah Palin.
I was very interested in this paragraph.
[Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject
religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she
could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had
inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." The librarian,
Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the
time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving "full
support" to the mayor.
Usually I'm just happy to see libraries even mentioned in national level
politics, but not like this. Mary Ellen Baker resigned from her library
director job in 1999.
note: there's some buzz being generated that says that this post contains a
comment that lists the books that Palin supposedly wanted banned. The list
is here, but there appears to be no truth to the claim made by the
commenter, and no further documentation or support for this has turned up.
http://www.librarian.net/stax/2366/s...in-vp-nominee/
http://www.time.com/time/politics/artic le/0,8599,1837918,00.html