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tipaly81 Moscow, Idaho USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 1:45 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
Let's spend a few moments browsing the list of books Mayor Sarah Palin tried to get town librarian Mary Ellen Baker to ban in the lovely, all-American town of Wasilla, Alaska.


When Baker refused to remove the books from the shelves, Palin threatened tofire her. The story was reported in Time Magazine and the list comes from the librarian.net website.

I'm sure you'll find your own personal favorites among the classics Palin wanted to protect the good people of Wasilla from, but the ones thatjumped out at me were the four Stephen King novels (way to go Stephen,John Steinbeck only got three titles on the list), that notorious piece of communist
pornography 'My Friend Flicka,' the usual assortment of Harry Potter books, works by Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain (always fun to see those two names together), Arthur Miller, and Aristophanes, as well as 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' (insert your own Bristol Palin joke here),and
the infamous one-two punch of depravity: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Little Red Riding Hood.' But the cherry on the sundae, the topper, is Sarah Palin's passionate, religious mission to clear the shelves of the Wasilla Public Library of that ultimate evil tome: 'Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.' That's
'free speech' and 'justice' in it.


Go over to your book case and take down one of the books you'll find on the list (I know you've got a couple) and give it a read in honor of the founding fathers. Then tell me I'm not the only voter who doesn't want this woman within thirty feet of the United States Constitution.

Sarah Palin's "Book Club"
> A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
> A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
> 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
> Daddy's 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 Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
> Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
> Harry Potter20and 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
> It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
> James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
> Lady Chatterley's 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
> M y Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
> 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
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tipaly81 Moscow, Idaho USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 1:45 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
> One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
> One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
> Ordinary People by Judith Guest
> Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's 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
> Slaughte rhouse-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 Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
> The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
> The Grapes of Wrath by John20Steinbeck
> The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
> The Handmaid's 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 Won't by Judy Blume
> To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
> Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
> Webster's 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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tipaly81 Moscow, Idaho USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 1:47 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
I kind of find this scary. Any time people try to erase thought provoking material it means we are heading for hard times and a paranoid state. Banning books, burning books, marking some as evil and all that is wrong and uncalled for. scold
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Fallingman Dublin, Dublin Ireland
Mon Sep 8, 2008 2:19 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
A rather disturbing list. Banning books always implies lack of trust in people to make up their own minds....I always thought that was one of the Republicans big issues....trust the electorate to make their own minds up about things.

Are you sure she personally wanted these banned. I thought she was more modern than that....Creationist nonsense aside! dunno
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Spaghetti Greensboro, North Carolina USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 2:37 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
Hard to believe 1984 isn't on the list. Probably one of her favorites.

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curious socal, California USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 2:39 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
The LA Times stated today that librarians.net has disavowed this list due to lack of evidence that Palin ever created such a list.
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Spaghetti Greensboro, North Carolina USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 2:49 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
Here's an article by someone who is apparently not a fan of hers:

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/
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Fallingman Dublin, Dublin Ireland
Mon Sep 8, 2008 2:52 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
curious: The LA Times stated today that librarians.net has disavowed this list due to lack of evidence that Palin ever created such a list.


I'm not a fan of hers or the Republicans but it does seem odd. How would they have got such a list published in the first place on their site?

confused
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candio Youngstown, Ohio USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 3:34 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
Fallingman: I'm not a fan of hers or the Republicans but it does seem odd. How would they have got such a list published in the first place on their site?


Because everyone is pulling at straws trying to bring down this woman.
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Skybow apple valley, California USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 3:44 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
candio: Because everyone is pulling at straws trying to bring down this woman.


Really, everyone is pulling at straws on all the candidates to try to bring them down aren't they? Name of the presidential game.

As to the list, I don't know it that is true that she actually gave a list to the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, but she did pressure her to ban books and actually fired her. Later she rehired her (Mary Ellen was popular).

http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515512.html

WASILLA -- 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.

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candio Youngstown, Ohio USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 4:00 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
A good place to follow up on all the misleading things written about any candidate in the media or on the web. This is a good site to research a lot of stories.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp
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Skybow apple valley, California USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 4:14 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
candio: A good place to follow up on all the misleading things written about any candidate in the media or on the web. This is a good site to research a lot of stories.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp


Thanks I'll bookmark it. handshake
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Indyfella indianapolis, Indiana USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 4:15 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
tipaly81: I kind of find this scary. Any time people try to erase thought provoking material it means we are heading for hard times and a paranoid state. Banning books, burning books, marking some as evil and all that is wrong and uncalled for.



I hear ya... Lil' Black Sambo was banned 25-30 years ago.
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candio Youngstown, Ohio USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 4:15 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
Skybow: Thanks I'll bookmark it.


You are very welcome.handshake
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Indyfella indianapolis, Indiana USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 4:17 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
Fallingman: I'm not a fan of hers or the Republicans but it does seem odd. How would they have got such a list published in the first place on their site?




It's amazing what 30 democrat lawyers sent to Alaska to dig up garbage can come up with... laugh
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WhatUwish4 Jacksonville, Florida USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 4:20 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
I find this impossible to believe and would like to challenge this claim. This smacks of a typical rumor campaign. Sorry. Don't trust everything you read.

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crotalus_p Rush, Dublin Ireland
Mon Sep 8, 2008 6:15 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
WhatUwish4: I find this impossible to believe and would like to challenge this claim. This smacks of a typical rumor campaign. Sorry. Don't trust everything you read.



Some of the books where not even published untill after the list was said to of been made roll eyes
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pyaremohan delhi India
Mon Sep 8, 2008 7:58 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
tipaly81: I kind of find this scary. Any time people try to erase thought provoking material it means we are heading for hard times and a paranoid state. Banning books, burning books, marking some as evil and all that is wrong and uncalled for.



right .against the very concept of freedom of individual choice
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CjTenorSax Atwater, Ohio USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 8:21 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
tipaly81: I kind of find this scary. Any time people try to erase thought provoking material it means we are heading for hard times and a paranoid state. Banning books, burning books, marking some as evil and all that is wrong and uncalled for.


As do I. People are intelligent enough to make their own choices. If we become a society where a few decide for us what we are permitted to enjoy in our own spare time, how far before all other aspects of our lives are controlled?

How far before even all of our education, research and development is eroded or frozen and new advancements never take place or are reversed? The possibilities are mind numbing.wow wow wow
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SusieRR northeast, Ohio USA
Mon Sep 8, 2008 8:47 PM CST : Sarah Palin's Banned Books!
Tipaly - You rock for getting this info.

McCain MUST NOT WIN!!!
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