Does anyone know what books Palin wanted to ban?

[southernleftylady]

Just wondering Thanks in advance!

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1. lol, I think all of them

I dont have time to look up the source but I think she wanted the entire library closed.

[cdb]

2. My Pet Goat?

There is a list out there somewhere, but it has been discredited.

[pinto]

3. There was no list. The question Palin posed to the librarian was a "loyalty test"

according to Palin. Would the librarian remove books if directed to do so by Palin?, was the gist of it. And *that's* pretty disconcerting in its own right.

(on edit) When the librarian said No, Palin tried to have her fired, iirc.

[mikelgb]

4. The ones with words.

[VeraAgnes]

5. My money is on...........

Harry Potter if anyone is taking bets.

[gateley]

6. From what I've read, I don't think it got to the point of any list or suggestions

of specific books.

I think she approached the Librarian and asked her if she would be amenable to banning certain books that she (Palin) might think shouldn't be in the Library.

The Librarian responded that they followed the guidelines for their sized library. So essentially, no way.

And then Palin asked for her resignation.

There are some lists which are purported to be from the Wassila Library meeting minutes, but the lists are BOGUS, so don't fall for them.

[treestar]

9. Maybe we can form a Swiftboat group to talk to that Librarian!

She can come out and do ads about it.

It'd make her famous for life, she could write a book on her experiences, so it shouldn't harm her financially.

And if she gave interviews while Princess Tundra does not - that'd be heaven!

[gateley]

12. Yeah - what's up with the 527's? Do we have any running?

I'm assuming you meant a 527 - I don't think Obama would touch this directly, do you?

[treestar]

Oh no, I figured on a 527, which wasn't that what the Swiftboat group

was? The Right Wing Media won't reveal what an extremist she is, that's for sure.

Does it mean this hypothetical ad would just not have "I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message?" I don't remember much about the swiftboat ads.

[gateley]

21. I think the 527's do NOT have the "I'm Barack Obama and I approved..."

on them. They say paid for by XXXXX.

And I'm sure the Swiftboat spots were not 'official' ads. Just unofficially heartily endorsed. :eyes:

[treestar]

19. Oh no, I figured on a 527, which wasn't that what the Swiftboat group

was? The Right Wing Media won't reveal what an extremist she is, that's for sure.

Does it mean this hypothetical ad would just not have "I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message?" I don't remember much about the swiftboat ads.

[thoughtanarchist]

7. yup.

This is even scarier than some of the other Palin stuff coming out:


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
Flow ers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two& nbsp;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 W hitman
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 Aristophane s
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
My House by Nikki Giovanni
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 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
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz


http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/jnail/blog/&blogId=3713

[cdb]

10. Snopes says FALSE, that isn't the list

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

[DURHAM D]

11. She wanted to ban some books that were not yet written?

She is a clever girl.

Actually that is a list from the ALA of all books that have ever been suggested for banning by anyone.

[malta blue]

13. this list was debunked last week

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=6971774

[thoughtanarchist]

16. Got it.

Reminds me of the rovian trick about *'s AWOL docs.

The story was true but they transformed the story into one about "fake documents".

The fact that she wanted to ban books at all should make her an unacceptable choice for anyone that values freedom.

[slackmaster]

17. Yes, the fact that she brought it up at all is a big red flag

To anyone who is paying attention.

[thoughtanarchist]

18. I'll bet a dozen doughnuts

that she is not challenged over this in her pending ABC interview.

Someone needs to get her on the record responding to this issue.

[slackmaster]

15. That list has been thoroughly debunked - Here is the actual source

http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html

Note that not all of the books in that list were even published when Palin had the now-infamous conversation with a librarian.

[TahitiNut]

22. I'd call that a very good reading list ... many essential reads for any literate adult.

:shrug:

[calimary]

24. Excellent resource - THANKS!

This is a good clarifier. And unfortunately, considering the mentality here of The Public Official Who Would Be Inclined By His/Her Political Leanings To Consider Banning Books, it wouldn't surprise me to see some or all of these books on palin's "list" - even if it was only a proposal that hadn't been fully fleshed out. These are the kinds of books that GET banned when some knuckledragger is successful in getting such a ban enacted. It applies to palin, it applies to the fundies, it applies to that whole narrow mentality on the extreme end of the other side. Where people like palin can be found.

[L. Coyote]

8. Alice in Wonderland and Darwin! LOL.

And any evidence that abstinence did not work for the Virgin Mary. :rofl:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Until we see a list, and judging from her absence from the media...

I'd have to assume it's all of them.

[treestar]

20. That list is at least typical of what wingnuts would want banned

She never got to the point of making a list, but connecting her to the fundies who want things banned is easy - the fact she wanted to do it and that she's a fundie at least make for a pretty good ground to guess at what she might have wanted banned.

[Contrary1]

23. Everything but "My Pet Goat",

The right side up version, of course.