Laura vs. unhinged librarians

Town Hall ^ | Jun 21, 2006 | Michelle Malkin

[CSM]

First Lady Laura Bush, who served as a public school teacher and librarian in the Houston, Dallas and Austin school systems, is scheduled to speak to the American Library Association's (ALA) annual conference in New Orleans next week.

The First Lady isn't planning to speak about anything political. The non-controversial topic of her panel: "School Libraries Work: Rebuilding for Learning" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Nevertheless, her mere scheduled presence has moonbat activists within the ALA steaming. On a library e-mail list publicized on the SHUSH blog ( http://www.SHUSH.ws ) this week, ALA councilor-at-large Mark Rosenzweig's rant must be quoted at length to be believed:

"I must, with the weariness and frustration that accompanies the anticipated yet still painful, hereby protest that this event turns our conference into a grand political photo-op for the administration of President George W. Bush, whose administration bears such a heavy responsibility for, among other things of which I will remind you, the debacle of the response to Hurricane Katrina and for its on-going aftermath.

"Mrs. Bush is anachronistically called the 'First Lady,' with the fake gentility which is the hallmark of our provincial cult of the Presidency, but what she is, in [political] fact, regardless of her surfeit of -- to me -- rather cloying charm and her much publicized attachment to libraries as the no-political-downside way of demonstrating Bush Administration largesse, is the First Supporter of President Bush and one his most valuable public relations assets . . . she supports virtually every policy of her husband's administration -- tax cuts for the rich, the destruction of social security and Medicare, the privatization of public lands, the hand-outs to corporations, the support for the plundering by Big Oil, the covering for the abuses of the [pharmaceutical] industry, the invasion and occupation of Iraq (and the lies that were told to enable it), the blockade of Cuba and the threats to Latin America, the nuclear sabre-rattling, the USA Patriot Act, covert domestic surveillance, the attacks on the Bill of Rights and the entire Constitution, the flaunting of international law, and, let's not forget, 'Gitmo' and Abu Ghraib and Haditha.

"When you see her smiling demurely on the platform that we have provided for her and basking in the standing ovation Americans love to give to celebrities, know too that the smirking faces of Bush and Cheney and [Rumsfeld] are up there too, and that every clap of the hands and whistle and whoop are taken by them -- and by the media who will witness this -- as endorsement of their policies and their administ[r]ation."

Someone's been breathing too much photocopier fluid. And he's not alone.

Rosenzweig held the position of chief book-stacker and archivist for the "Reference Center for Marxist Studies" in New York. He heads a hard-core faction of library-dwelling radicals who are apologists for Fidel Castro ("I don't think [Cuba] is a dictatorship. It's a republic," Rosenzweig has said). ALA officials, recycling discredited propaganda about the Patriot Act, are vocal opponents of every aspect of the War on Terror. The ALA policy-making council has passed resolutions calling for the United States to cut and run from Iraq and is openly hostile to the Boy Scouts' freedom of association.

As David Durant, a conservative librarian at East Carolina University, wrote in a whistle-blowing piece on the radicalized ALA last year: "[I]n the wake of 9/11 and the war in Iraq, librarianship as a profession no longer simply leans to the left; it has become openly politicized. By 2004, to work in a major American public or academic library was to find yourself in a left-wing echo chamber." Popular speakers at past ALA conferences have included: Bush-bashers Richard Clarke, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Gloria Steinem, and E.L. Doctorow. A featured benefit screening of Michael Moore's conspiracy-mongering "Fahrenheit 9/11" drew a capacity crowd of more than 2,000, Durant noted. Dissenters are mocked on ALA mailing lists and conference events.

Welcome to the 21st century librarian: book-smart, reality-stupid, Bush-deranged bigots. Let's hope the First Lady's security detail comes prepared. You never know what these tolerant people will throw.

Michelle Malkin is a syndicated columnist and maintains her weblog at michellemalkin.com. She has also authored books such as Unhinged and In Defense of Internment.

[cake_crumb]

It says right in the article that "Dissenters are mocked on ALA mailing lists and conference events." That means there ARE dissentors, but they are censored by the ALA moonbats who love to scream "censorship".

[6SJ7]

Now Mr. Rosenzweig, what have we told you about run on sentences?

The guy must be channelling William Faulkner.

[highlander_UW]

He heads a hard-core faction of library-dwelling radicals who are apologists for Fidel Castro ("I don't think [Cuba] is a dictatorship. It's a republic," Rosenzweig has said).

He doesn't even pretend to have a shred of intelligence. Amazing given that he's surrounded by books...but then again, the article did state they were Marxist books. Further evidence that you are what you eat..if you "eat" books that teach stupidity you are stupid.

[OldFriend]

It's not as if we ever expect dignity or respect from anyone on the left.

[SelmaLee]

More like a run-on-and-on-and-on sentence. Hmmm, almost content-free too, like most leftist rants.

[Tulane]

Ahh...we need libraries...we also need news sites that point out the dumb a$$es like this guy...

[khnyny]

Ping

[khnyny]

Townhall really does have some of the best articles.

[newzhawk]

Not sure if this is a reflection of the politics at my hometown library- but whenever I try to offer up a brand new bestseller on Hillary in a bad light they say they will take it only for their book drive- they don't need it for the shelves. Then I can't find any copies!!! I no longer use the library- I visit Amazon.com for myself- BTW- this is an 80% Republican zone. Maybe not in the library though.

[xarmydog]

The last time I went to our local library,I had to use a computer as mine was down.The person prior to my usage had not logged out.What I saw was pornographic gay images!Of the local gay network!I was appalled,as I knew some of them personally.Blech!I was under the naive impression that such things had been filtered out.Some people just don't get the fact that quite a few people find that behavior repulsive.Call it gay bashing,but I don't have to like it.That is why I live in America.I switched computers,as I did not want to be connected in any way to that sort of nonsense.

[ClaireSolt]

This is an example of the much vaunted dissent. Like oil which spills from a wrecked tanker it spreads everywhere covering over and suffocating everything and everyone with the same slick, shiny goo. It sticks together the feathers of birds so they cannot fly and hitchhikes on the soles of everyone's shoes, so that they track it everywhere. But it does absolutely no good, at all.

[macamadamia]

The book stacker can't write. What a monkey's ass.

[joylyn]

I have been a librarian and I have been a poet. When it comes to politics these two groups vie for honors as the most nutty, self-absorbed, idiotic interest group in creation.

[plan2succeed.org]

Michele Malkin:

Please review SafeLibraries.org and consider helping us to spread the truth, in our opinion until a court proves it, that the ALA is sexualizing children by claiming it is age discrimination to keep them from any material. And worse, they are doing this despite what the US Supreme Court said in the case the ALA itself lost and lost big, namely, US v. ALA.

Regarding the ALA's position, remember how it condemned Israel for supposedly destroying so-called Palestinian libraries when they did not, and they took no position when a Palestinian terrorist blew up an Isreali university library -- even an AMERICAN being killed there provoked no response from the ALA. Not surprising considering how the ALA bemoaned a Florida librarian who turned in a 9/11 terrorist post 9/11 because the terrorist who killed thousands of Americans had rights to privacy. (See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Judith_Krug.)

Now, the terrorists have almost hit an Israeli library and the ALA has so far be silent. See Freeper thread Qassam lands near Sderot library, 2 suffer from shock and comments therein.

Michelle Malkin, please consider helping us to inform more people about the truth about the ALA.

Thank you.

SafeLibraries.org - Are Children Safe in Public Libraries?

[plan2succeed.org]

Thank you for the ping. I'm happy to be able to write here and have people like you thinking of me. Michelle Malkin is outstanding besides. Thanks again.

[BelegStrongbow]

Some people like low pay, long quiet hours and being able to shush other people.

But, as others have said, the library is more a museum than a facility anymore.

I just go onto Amazon and buy the thing, if I really want to read it. My wife gets good use of the library in town, but then she's into reading the drivel of the left (gotta know what the enemy is thinking if you're going to try to figure what they'll think next).

[Conan the Librarian]

I'll take that to heart. It has been a long week already.

[Dooderbutt]

"I must, with the weariness and frustration that accompanies the anticipated yet still painful, hereby protest that this event turns our conference into a grand political photo-op for the administration of President George W. Bush, whose administration bears such a heavy responsibility for, among other things of which I will remind you, the debacle of the response to Hurricane Katrina and for its on-going aftermath...

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

I've noticed that the smarter a person thinks they are, the more words they have to use to try to get their point across. God, that hurts to read.

[khnyny]

You are more than welcome. God bless.

[Library Lady]

chief book-stacker

I should change my user name.