Posted on 09/06/2008 8:28:45 PM PDT by library user
I was at Borders this morning, and the below quote is in huge bold black letters in this rag.
"She asked the library how she could go about banning books.""The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Emmons, couldn't be reached for comment.
- John Stein (Palin's predecessor as mayor)
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Dittos to what you said. Apparently, people have already forgotten what happened when everybody started piling on Bill Clinton. His approval ratings when to 67%.
Geez, and the liberals still don’t understand why they keep losing. The moonbats love this stuff, mainstream America soundly rejects it.
You are right, of course.
Palin pressured Wasilla librarian
TOWN MAYOR: She wanted to know if books would be pulled.
By RINDI WHITE
rwhite@adn.com
Published: September 4th, 2008 01:49 AM
excerpts from
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515512.html
When the matter came up for the second time in October 1996, during a City Council meeting, Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla housewife who often attends council meetings, was there.
Like many Alaskans, Kilkenny calls the governor by her first name.
“Sarah said to Mary Ellen, ‘What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?” Kilkenny said.
“I was shocked. Mary Ellen sat up straight and said something along the line of, ‘The books in the Wasilla Library collection were selected on the basis of national selection criteria for libraries of this size, and I would absolutely resist all efforts to ban books.’”
Palin didn’t mention specific books at that meeting, Kilkenny said.
Palin herself, questioned at the time, called her inquiries rhetorical and simply part of a policy discussion with a department head “about understanding and following administration agendas,” according to the Frontiersman article.
TEST OF LOYALTY
Were any books censored banned? June Pinell-Stephens, chairwoman of the Alaska Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee since 1984, checked her files Wednesday and came up empty-handed.
We need to cut the MSM permanently out of the loop. Just boycott Time mag by ending subs forever.
AND they want to ban Rush, Hannity, and any other talk shows they deem offensive.
They also want to ban any interviews they don’t like.
They also don’t want to be asked questions they don’t like.
They also want to ban any opposition to the gay agenda.
and on and on and on.
There has to be a new word for the current crop of so called politicians because hypocrite doesn’t quite go far enough.
Time magazine is now re-hashing stories from the liberal blogs. Stories that have already been debunked. Never before have the MSM sunk so low.
Next week's issue: Reporters prove Palin family car has under-inflated tires.
Cover story: Palin scofts at energy crisis. The picture on the cover will of course be Obama.
At least you know they’re RSSing the Daily Kos.
The more they smear the more popular she becomes because Americans can see right through media slander ..... this election will also be the death of the MSM -
I thought it was kittens mounted over her fireplace. It’s so confusing.
The local library isn’t the Library of Congress. There’s not enough room to get a copy of every book published in the US every year. The question is who decides which books to put in the library. Is it the librarians whose loyalty is primarily to their professional organizations or local elected officials who must answer to the voters and tax payers.
Sips espresso out of the polished skulls of puppies.
The liberals keep losing because their agenda is dictated by the Other
Starbucks perhaps?
People forget too easily and quickly FlingWingFlyer, and IMO Davis the Campaign Manager is playing this very smartly.
Don’t whine about the Media, don’t give an fuel to the fire, simply force them to play nice.
Sarah Palin is the hottest media property in the US at the moment, whoever “gets” an interview will have a ratings boom.
The really funny thing is, John McCain USED to be known as the media’s candidate, now Palin is on the opposite track.
Very clever, not all access, no access.
Kind of like asking Barack, "What would you say if I asked you to put your hand on a Koran? How about a Bible? Just curious."
Yeah. I was going to post a thread that the Seattle’s Best in the Penn Station Border’s Books were sending donated bags of coffee to the troops in Iraq. More than can be said for Starbucks.
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