Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

[Mad'Em Fixer]

Thought you all might find this interesting! We should be scared!

> This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla
> > Library Board.
> > This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned. As 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 J ohn 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 s
> > 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
>

[Steve Graham]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

in white text would be better n00b

[sammwalk]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

c'mon obviously a lie. I don't even need to snopes this. please, we don't have to make stuff up and stoop to the level of the republicans. there's plenty of true things wrong with sarah palin.

[Mad'Em Fixer]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

c'mon obviously a lie. I don't even need to snopes this. please, we don't have to make stuff up and stoop to the level of the republicans. there's plenty of true things wrong with sarah palin.

My Aunt who is a Librarian at the Latin School in Chicago sent me this information. I am not stooping to any level. The desire of some groups to ban books is common place unfortunately.

[Miroslav]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

c'mon obviously a lie. I don't even need to snopes this. please, we don't have to make stuff up and stoop to the level of the republicans. there's plenty of true things wrong with sarah palin.

Oh yeah? Well, think again.

That list of books up there is probably baloney and there is nothing to suggest that Palin ever actually banned anything. But multiple accounts indicate that Palin did indeed push the town librarian several times about her willingness to "censor" books, should Palin order her to do so. The librarian refused to consider any censorship, and Palin tried to pressure her to resign from her job. The townspeople eventually rallied to the librarian's support and Palin decided to back down on the issue. She claims something along the lines of it being some sort of "test of loyalty".

Here's one account.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1117009&srvc=2008campaign&position=15

So, nothing illegal going on here and no banned books in the end... but to me, it suggests many questionable things about Palin's character that she would even pose such questions. It's a pretty bizarre loyalty test. She may be talented and charismatic, but actions such as these also suggest how much of a bully she may be, and what she thinks of certain freedoms when push comes to shove. She probably didn't get to where she is by being a creampuff.

[Huggie Smiles]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

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

false

[Mad'Em Fixer]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

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

false

I stand corrected on the specifics. However, the overall thought of banning books whatsoever which she did address on several occassions is unimaginable to me.

[thesightless]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

the only book i would "censor" my own kids on there is clockwork, and i wouldn't ban, i just wait till thier 16 or so.

[Mad'Em Fixer]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

the only book i would "censor" my own kids on there is clockwork, and i wouldn't ban, i just wait till thier 16 or so.

I agree completely. Age appropriate is one thing. Banning if nothing else makes people more interested.

[thesightless]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

I agree completely. Age appropriate is one thing. Banning if nothing else makes people more interested.

co0ngrats you are thinking like a libertarian!!!!

[Jenks]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

American Psycho - not on the list. awesome.

[k3n3]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

FactCheck.org is a non-partisan group the helps voters wade through all the bullshit floating around about ALL the candidates...

this one is not true....

Taken from FactCheck.org:

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html

"So what about that list of books targeted for banning, which according to one widely e-mailed version was taken “from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board”? If it was, the library board should take up fortune telling. The list includes the first four Harry Potter books, none of which had been published at the time of the Palin-Emmons conversations. The first wasn't published until 1998. In fact, the list is a simple cut-and-paste job, snatched (complete with typos and the occasional incorrect title) from the Florida Institute of Technology library Web page, which presents the list as “Books banned at one time or another in the United States.”

[88Mariner]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

^ doesn't matter if a book was banned or not. What is horrific is that she even asked the librarian her thoughts on banning books, and then got rid of her when she said it was wrong (thus adverse to palin's belief that some books should be banned).


FAIL.

[sammwalk]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

part of me says, yeah, she didn't really ask for books to be banned, and it was just some silly loyalty test.

and then the other part of me wants to propagate the lie simply because teh republicans are doing the same thing and it's the only way to fight.

[Mad'Em Fixer]

Re: Books Palin Wanted Banned from The Wasilla Library

FactCheck.org is a non-partisan group the helps voters wade through all the bullshit floating around about ALL the candidates...

this one is not true....

Taken from FactCheck.org:

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html

"So what about that list of books targeted for banning, which according to one widely e-mailed version was taken “from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board”? If it was, the library board should take up fortune telling. The list includes the first four Harry Potter books, none of which had been published at the time of the Palin-Emmons conversations. The first wasn't published until 1998. In fact, the list is a simple cut-and-paste job, snatched (complete with typos and the occasional incorrect title) from the Florida Institute of Technology library Web page, which presents the list as “Books banned at one time or another in the United States.”

This has already been addressed and I have acknowledged the list is false. However, the fact that she brought up the concept of banning books on numerous of occasions is not. What if she decides to start banning music next???!!!????!!!