Posted on 09/06/2008 1:36:23 AM PDT by Stoat
Why would Jane want to ban Tarzan?
This must,by necessity, ban most books. There simply isn't shelf space. The result will always reflect the personal view of the deciding body.
?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 didn’t 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.”
That does seem odd though???????
Strange, Maya Angelou is on the list. Her books don’t need to be banned. They’re so bad they ban themselves.
The Harry Potter books hadn’t been published in 1996.
nor Naked Lunch.
Somebody is dreaming out of their you know what.
Re: banned books. Some are banned, some are "challenged" meaning someone tried to have them banned. The list is long and some of the reasons for banning a book may seem silly. Some of the books on the list in this latest attempt at creating a Palin scandal were banned a long time ago or in far away countries.
Re: librarians as censors. While it's true that there is a limit to shelving space in any library, the librarians who do the purchasing select according to the interests/needs/demands of the population they serve. If the book you seek is not in the collection of your library (whether it's an academic library or a very small public library), the librarian will get it for you through inter-library loan or, at the very least, let you know where it can be found. A librarian does not censor information, they make it accessible.
What about “Pat the Bunny”?
Anyone with half a brain would recognize this a a RAT perpetrated hoax by the time they got down to the 7th or 8th entry. For the most part, these are literary masterpieces by some of the most talented authors who ever lived. Only a liberal would have any work of Mark Twain on a banned book list.
GOP has all the babes now....
I just sent it to snopes.
Good job by you. Lets see how fast they react...
SARAH KILLS WOLVES FROM AIRPLANES! It just keeps getting better and better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T85cOGc8L0
I call BS on this thing, and I’ll tell you why. No sane person would go to a librarian and ask them to “censor” book. Now I’ll bet she MIGHT have asked about removing a book that was questionable. Perhaps there was grumblings about some of the books available in the library, so the mayor, doing her job for the people, asked the librarian about removing books. The librarian says no, mayor says ok, librarian gets snippy about it (liberals, you know..), holds a grudge and gets an attitude with the Mayor, becomes uncooperative about doing anything, mayor decides to cut the librarian off, people insist librarian stays, mayor, doing the work of the people, lets librarian stay on the job. Or something like that. More plausible than a mayor coming in and say “Sorry hun, were coming in to BURN some of your books!”
That list is bogus...”The Audacity of Hope” is not on the list.
If only it was desperation!
I regret that these standard tactics of the Left
are effective.
I’ve heard from a dear friend, who was greatly heartened by the Palin pick,
but who emailed me in great shock about this.
I think i’ve debunked it so that he can regain his morale
... but not everyone who reads the slime
asks me or you for the truth.
Why DID Palin call and ask a librarian if she would be ok with banning some books? Am I missing something here ?
And yet Obama’s efforts to have the DJ at WGN in Chicago arrested for airing an unfavorable story during the Democrats convention raises not an eyebrow in the MSM.
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