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Terry O'Brien on WLS AM Chicago this morning mentioned that the Western Springs, Cook County, IL public library was going to host a showing of Michael Moore's movie. Terry said that the residents of Western Springs should complain about tax dollars used for viewing the propaganda film. However, not only Western Springs but many other communities are part of the Illinois SLS, Suburban Library System and all of us suburban Cook County residents pay taxes to that library system.

Anyway I went to the library website and see that the library liberals are now not going to show the propaganda film.

http://www.fordlibrary.org/

Film Discussion Group
"The Library's showing of Fahrenheit 9/11 on October 22nd has been cancelled. The central purpose of our film discussion group has been to provide a forum for thoughtful discussion of films of current interest. The current political climate makes this type of forum impossible and has raised concerns about patron and staff safety. We regret that this has inconvenienced those members of the community who viewed this as an opportunity for constructive debate. No future showing has been determined."

Yes, the poor little libs are concerned about their safety. As usual the big bad conservatives might actually complain about the obvious bias of librarians.

As a side note, I was recently in my local library and went to the Vietnam history book section. All that I found were obvious politically correct books. Yet, I recall that there was a wide selection of Vietnam War history books from many different authors on the shelves a number of years ago. The librarians must have burned all of the conservative books!

I am a librarian and I can tell you that's a big no-no for libraries to get involved in politics. Unfortunately, librarians tend to be liberal as well as the professional organization, the American Library Association (headquarters in Chicago, BTW). As a librarian, I try to be objective about the books we purchase. It's hard to be though with all these liberals trying to make a buck by publishing anti-Bush books. I don't select all of them. Luckily I live in a fairly conservative community. Anyway, as a taxpayer, you have a right to voice your opinion to the librarians about what you are finding on the shelves. Regardless of rather you live in a liberal or conservative community, the library should represent all sides of a matter.