Who is "Leslie Germaine" anyway? The Amanda
Chapel<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/07/19/BL2006071900447.html>of
librarianship?
Jim
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Leslie Germaine <lgermaine43@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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
>
-- Jim Milles Vice Dean for Legal Information Services and Director of the Law Library Professor of Law University at Buffalo Law School 208 O'Brian Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 (716) 645-2089, jgmilles@buffalo.edu http://ClaimID.com/jmilles http://www.retaggr.com/Card/jmilles
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