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What books will Wasilla Public Library feature during Banned Books WeeK? Sarah Palin's list?
September 27 through October 4 is Banned Books Week, when libraries celebrate the public’s first amendment right to access and read books, regardless if some in the community find the content offensive. As part of the celebration, libraries often feature books that have come under attack (including deviant titles, like
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.)
I have a suggestion for this year. How about the books that Sarah Palin hoped to ban while she was mayor of Wasilla County? I’ll bet Mary Ellen Emmons, the city librarian who Palin tried to fire for not going along with her plan, has a list! The story is in the Anchorage Daily News, but came to me via the Mudflats blog.
Update: Time Magazine confirms that Palin pressured the Wasilla librarian to agree to ban books.
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5 Comments
September 6, 2008 at 10:22 am
Do your research. The whole thing turns out to be a hoax. Read the comments posted on the Anchorage Dauly News article. Read what other blogs are saying about this now.
September 6, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Hmmm. I don’t think it’s a hoax. The Anchorage Daily News article is pretty straight forward, as is the Time Magazine article, just published.
Marcia
September 6, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Yes, NOTHING gets the NAZI base riled up like a good, old fashioned book burning!!
September 7, 2008 at 11:02 am
Yes, do your research, here is a post from Michelle Malkin’s blog, “Palin Derangement Syndrome strikes again. This time it’s 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 you’ll find books Gov. Palin supposedly tried to ban…that hadn’t even been published yet. Example: The Harry Potter books, the first of which wasn’t 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.
You can find the online list of Books Banned at one time or another here, http://www.lib.fit.edu/pubs/librarydisplays/bannedbooks/website.htm
September 9, 2008 at 2:14 pm
It’s more of a meta-banning. There were no actual books listed, just the idea of banning books was presented.
“Will you ban books for me?”
“No.”
“Will you ban books for me?”
“No.”
“Will you ban books for me?”
“No.”
“You’re fired.”
(Public outcry in support of the Librarian)
“Fine. You’re not fired.”