Posted on 07/12/2011 6:39:33 AM PDT by markomalley
In June we attended the Printer’s Row Literature Festival in Chicago. City blocks were closed off for tents and booths full of all types of literature. We presented a board with a selection of well known book covers and asked visitors of the event if they could choose to ban any of the books on the board, which if any, they would in fact ban. They were allowed to choose any three of the eleven choices.
(video at link)
The authors of the books we offered to ban were Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Andrew Breitbart, Ayn Rand, Michael Savage, Bill Clinton, Michael Moore, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler and Barack Obama. While there were in fact less than two handfuls of individuals who did tell us they don’t think any books should be banned, unfortunately there were a shocking amount of guests at this book fair who were quite open to the idea, and in fact lined up quite excited for the opportunity to voice their opinion.
Participants overwhelming chose Sarah Palin who received 53 votes putting her at 36% overall, Glenn Beck at 23% and Ann Coulter at 22%. All of the other choices received a very minimal amount of votes, with the next most popular to ban being Adolf Hitler at 0.5%. Ironically, Michael Savage, who has been banned from entering Britain over things he often says, did not receive one vote to have his words banned in Chicago.
UPDATE: Because you asked. Nine people explicitly stated to us they thought banning books was wrong, including two individuals who voted on the board but later approached us to say, (paraphrasing) “I think I made a mistake, and wanted to take my votes back if I could, because after further reflection, I think banning any book is wrong.” This accounts for 0.6% of the votes cast. We have provided percentages based on the number of votes cast, not the amount of people participating, due to the fact that some people did not use all three of the votes they were allowed. For those of you incapable of comprehending, for the record; this was not a scientific study.
What are the little chicken sh*ts afraid of?
Obviously they can’t spare the shelf space, what with those 15,000,000 unbought copies of “The Audacity of Hope.”
There are a few conservative talk shows from Chicago - Don and Roma, Cisco Codo and Big John Howland. However , Chicagoans can pick up very good conservative talk shows from newly liberated Milwaukee - Charlie Sykes - Jeff Wagner, Mark Belling, Jay Weber and Vickie McKenna.
Another confirmation of how Ignorant the people of Chicago are. Weren’t there some people in Germany in the 30’s and 40’s who banned books?
AM or FM? On AM all I can get is sports or full bore union, leftist, Islamist, Bill Ayers type rubbish. St. Louis, Mo. is just about as bad.
NOT GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t forget Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft who are on WLS at many times and filling in for various people.
Those were AM stations I was talking about. The Chicago stations are WLS at 890, and WIND at 560.
the Wisconsin stations are WTMJ at 620 and WISM at 1130. Of course, the farther north you are the better the reception.
Credit where it’s due - it was a bumper sticker I saw recently.
Thanks. They are great!
Of course, the farther north you are the better the reception.
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That would explain it. Each time I am skirting south along I-80.
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