Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS) 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"<http://www.lib.fit.edu/pubs/librarydisplays/bannedbooks/website.htm>that
has been floating around the Internet for years. STACLU
<http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/09/05/official-obama-website-repeats-fake-banned-book-list-and-embellishes-the-story/>notes
that the official Obama campaign
website<http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/markbrickman/gG5rK5/commentary>is
also perpetuating the fraud. And it's spread to
craigslist <http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/rnr/827266307.html>, where some
unhinged user is posting images likening Palin to Hitler. Here
<http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/rnr/826509077.html>it is again.
The person who first spread the Palin smear is identified as "Andrew
Aucoin,"
<http://www.librarian.net/stax/2366/sarah-palin-vp-nominee/#comment-119807>a
commenter on the blog of librarian Jessamyn
West. <http://www.librarian.net/stax/2366/sarah-palin-vp-nominee/> 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."*
It's 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. They've 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 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 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
> 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
> My 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
> 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
> 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 Devil's 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 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
>
>From the Anchorage Daily
News<http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515512.html>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 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.
>
> 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 Association's 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.*
>
Yes Janet, knowledge IS power!
___
Leslie
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Long, Janet <JLong@apslaw.com> wrote:
> Thank you Paula. No matter your political affiliation, knowledge is
> power. Thanks for bringing this information to light.
> Janet Long
> Providence, RI
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Library
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:54 PM
> *To:* law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> *Subject:* [LAW-LIB:56536] Sarah Palin and Libraries
>
> I know this isn't the place for partisan politics and I'm not going to
> discuss what I think of Sarah Palin's positions on abortion or foreign
> policy or whether polar bears belong on the Endangered Species Act. But she
> did try to censor books in the Wasilla Public Library and she did try to
> fire the librarian for not agreeing to do so. And she did support a bill in
> the legislature that would have forced librarians to tell parents what books
> their children had checked out of the library.
>
> I thought, as librarians, you might want to know her position on libraries
> and censorship.
> There is a well documented anti-Palin librarian's web site that discusses
> this. issues:http://librariansagainstpalin.wordpress.com/
>
> Paula Lichtenberg, Librarian
> Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco
>
>
-- Leslie Germaine
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