Posted on 09/06/2008 1:36:23 AM PDT by Stoat
Palin Derangement Syndrome strikes again. This time its hysterical librarians and their readers on the Internet disseminating a bogus list of books Gov. Sarah Palin supposedly banned in 1996. Looks like some of these library people failed reading comprehension. Take a look at the list below and youll find books Gov. Palin supposedly tried to ban that hadnt even been published yet. Example: The Harry Potter books, the first of which wasnt published until 1998.
The smear merchants who continue to circulate the list also failed to do a simple Google search, which would have showed them that the bogus Sarah Palin Banned Book List is almost an exact copy-and-paste reproduction of a generic list of Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States that has been floating around the Internet for years. STACLU notes that the official Obama campaign website is also perpetuating the fraud. And its spread to craigslist, where some unhinged user is posting images likening Palin to Hitler. Here it is again.
The person who first spread the Palin smear is identified as Andrew Aucoin, a commenter on the blog of librarian Jessamyn West. West has done the right thing in keeping the bogus comment up and pointing out in her main post that there appears to be no truth to the claim made by the commenter, and no further documentation or support for this has turned up.
Its a fake. Not true. Total B.S. A lie.
If it gets sent to you by a moonbat friend or family member, set em all straight. Fight the smears. Theyve only just begun.
The bogus Sarah Palin Banned Books List:
This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned. As many of you will notice it is a hit parade for book burners.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine LEngle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddys Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Its Okay if You Dont Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterleys Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary OHara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Womens Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devils Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Wont by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
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From the Anchorage Daily News story that inflamed P.D.S.:
Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so.
According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired. The censorship issue was not mentioned as a reason for the firing. The letter just said the new mayor felt Emmons didnt fully support her and had to go.
Emmons had been city librarian for seven years and was well liked. After a wave of public support for her, Palin relented and let Emmons keep her job.
It all happened 12 years ago and the controversy long ago disappeared into musty files. Until this week. Under intense national scrutiny, the issue has returned to dog her. It has been mentioned in news stories in Time Magazine and The New York Times and is spreading like a virus through the blogosphere.
The stories are all suggestive, but facts are hard to come by. Did Palin actually ban books at the Wasilla Public Library?
Were any books censored banned? June Pinell-Stephens, chairwoman of the Alaska Library Associations Intellectual Freedom Committee since 1984, checked her files Wednesday and came up empty-handed.
Pinell-Stephens also had no record of any phone conversations with Emmons about the issue back then. Emmons was president of the Alaska Library Association at the time.
The left has lost all credibility. They have used lies and smears to try to destroy this women.
They have energized me, and I will vote for her no matter what.
Exactly, so far we have had one side of the story just the way the DBM likes it.
The Bastard was made into a made for t.v. movie. I doubt it would be on anyone’s banned book list.
Sonic-
She didn’t. It was in a public meeting, and (then) Mayor Palin said she was inquiring on behalf of voters how the librarian would feel about requests to remove certain books (no titles were mentioned, per Anchorage Daily News coverage). The librarian explained that there she was firmly against censorship, and went on to explain that there is a challenge process that anyone can initiate specific to any library materials. No specific books were discussed, and no books were banned.
The librarian apparently was also a supporter of Palin’s predecessor. Palin asked for the librarian’s resignation, along with a number of other city staffers that were hired by and supported her political opponent. After a show of public support for the librarian, the request was withdrawn. Nearly 3 years later, the librarian resigned of her own accord.
Note that the lefties are attempting to link Palin’s pursuit of a constituent’s request with the attempt to remove an at-will employee from their city-paid position (which was clearly her perogative as Mayor). There’s no evidence of any link, but that’s not stopping them.
The vicious attacks continue ...
Don’t feel alone. We’re all in this together. It’s hard to figure out which battles to pick. The number of numbskulls on the socialist side seems to be spiraling out of control, and they get meaner by the day, so it seems as if we’re ‘outnumbered.’ But we’re all as strong as we were yesterday.
I realise this is the way it is supposed to work, but, where is the oversight? Most are government employees, entrenched in the system, protected by public employee's unions and the employer's fear of wrongful termination lawsuits. Call me cynical, but I have spent the last twelve years working for a government contractor and I have seen the system in action....
Some libraries are unionized, some are not. My library is not.
From another article, the Librarian publicly supported Palin’s opponent in her run for mayor. Palin cleaned house, including the Librarian, when she was elected. She relented and kept the librarian.
Non-Story.
Good for you. It would ne great if it always worked that way.
“The librarian explained that there she was firmly against censorship...”
Every child should have to read “Heather has two Mommies,” and “Daddy’s Roommate.”
Although I’m sure books by Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin, etc., would be free to go into the fire.
That was a strange book. Enjoyed it though.
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