jo4hn wrote:

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.

Palin's actions were unacceptable and IMO call her fitness to be VP into
serious question. However there has been a flood of anti-Palin propaganda
and misinformation including fake photos of her, when closely examined some
of the claims about her have evaporated. I'm concerned about this paragraph
from the site you linked to:

"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, [link to the list] 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."

So the question has to be asked, where did this list come from? Are we
supposed to just blindly accept this list which apparently comes from a de
facto anonymous comment on somebody's blog?

Here's a story about the issue from the Anchorage Daily News, if they'd
printed a list of books Palin wanted banned it might be credible. They
didn't.

http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515512.html

BTW, the NY Times reported that no list of books or objectionable passages
was ever offered during the exchanges between Palin and the librarian, so
again, where does this list come from? Snopes.com also asks how it was that
a list of books Palin wanted banned in 1996 includes books which had not yet
been published (e.g. the Harry Potter books). That's kind of a tip-off that
the list might not be the real deal.

There are good reasons for wondering if Sarah Palin is fit to be VP, it
really isn't necessary to make up stuff that never happened, leave that sort
of trash to Daily Kos.