’)This is honestly the sort of thing the GOP base loves.
Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor.
Does your direct feed from the oppo research team come over the same cable as your internet? Just curious…you know, bandwidth and all.
This is according to the incumbent she crushed in the election? We can’t even get the story from someone who doesn’t hold a grudge? Keep up the fight, Oliver! Maybe the Obama campaign will throw you a bone and pat you on the head.
Yes, because that’s clearly the first thing that comes to mind that it comes out that Sarah Palin wanted books banned.
JWG:
JWG in plain English:
Mmmmm, book-banning! My favorite Sunday Afternoon Nazi Funtime Behavior! I hate me the Huck Finn. Stupid truthy language and racial uncomfortableness!
PS – Dear Mr. The Oliver Willis: Did you receive our e-mail recently?
Wow. Obviously Quaker is in the know and has all the true facts! He read about it from some guy who was quoted in a magazine!
I am this close to giving you a rusk and putting you in a cot.
This says it all:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2YzODI3MGE3OTU0Yjg5ZDY5YmFjZmE3MmFiOWE4ZjQ=
I loved it!
BREAKING NEWS: The National Review likes Sarah Palin.
THIS JUST IN: National Review thinks Bush is Awesome.
BULLETIN: National Review endorsed Mitt Romney
FLASHBACK: National Review Opposed Dr. Martin Luther King
CONCLUSION: National Review is just as full of it and as wrong as Frank!
“Das war Vorspiel nur. Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.”
(That was mere foreplay. Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.)
– Heinrich Heine, Almansor (1821)
Wow, has a potential VP ever elicited more fear mongering? You’d think she was Robert Bork or something, you just know Teddy Kennedy has his “(insert Palin here) will bring us back to the days of back alley abortions” speech at the ready.
Sarah Palin will soon be back in Alaska.
No, she’d be worse than Bork. Bork, sitting on the supreme court, would not have a choice as to what laws become enacted, and how (or whether) to enforce the ones that already have been. Palin (assuming she moves that heartbeat up the ladder to the Presidency) would be able to do these things.
That.
Terrifies.
Me.
[...] that she once asked a librarian how to go about banning books, I can see her [...]
On behalf of all double-X chromosomatically-coded life units out there- I apologize. It’s one thing to acknowledge that sadly, ignorance is scary and does indeed exist. It’s another thing entirely to give it access to The Button.
My comment was “banned”…
Hehe …
Oliver: If you’re interested… this is my comment at Cesca’s blog.
Well, if someone really wants to contact the librarian to try and get a comment or verification, she now works at the Fairbanks North Star Borough public library.
It’s officially known as the Noel Wein Library.
She’s the Public Services Manager.
Here’s the contact information:
Mary Ellen Baker
Public Services Manager
Telephone: (907) 459-1045
Email: mary.ellen@taos.fnsb.lib.ak.us
By the way: It took me all of about 3 minutes to find this. Why can’t TIME do the same?
PackyJ
Sarah Palin went fishing without a license!
And she was named after someone in the BIBLE!
Damn Rethuglican!
My apologies ! My comment was not banned – it was set aside and restored after I said it was banned …
“Does your direct feed from the oppo research team come over the same cable as your internet? Just curious…you know, bandwidth and all.”
Money statement, right there. Since Palin has been announced the smears have increased and panic has set in on this site. Seriously, just change it to McCainandPalinarebigturds.com.
This blog is in the gutter now.
Go get some class for g-d’s sake.
Shorter jmccann:
“Waaah! Teacher! They hit me back!”
Frank,
Posts with links seem to get hung up.
Since Palin has been announced the smears have increased and panic has set in on this site.
Do you really not understand that opposition research is at the core of the vetting process, and that John McCain has left it up to the MSM and the Alt Med to do it for him?
Do you really not get that?
And so far we’ve got:
1) fake son
2) bad mother
3) secessionist
4) book burning
5) “casting couch”
6) mean to child-tasering cops
7) *drinks the blood of kittens
Great job!
* I’m the only one who has pushed this so far, but I think it might catch on.
Okay, never mind. the answer is “no, I don’t get that.”
Oliver can respond for himself, but I’ve never heard of complaints before that comments were deleted. I’ve had plenty of comments containing links that were held for moderation, and Oliver, unlike many, is actually pretty good about reviewing his moderation queue and releasing them. My fix is to often just post plain text links and assume anyone with enough of a brain to hold a conversation is running firefox with the “linkification” add on, or IE with google’s toolbar and it’s linkification, or Opera with it’s autolinkification.
We don’t have to go all conspiracy theory when the truth is most web commenting software sucks balls.
Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving “full support” to the mayor.
I know squat about journalism, but this does seem a really poorly sourced claim to make. And wanting to ban books is such an egregious offense to me, and seemingly so easy to verify, that I would want/demand a journalist verify it before printing it.
JWG, there’s so much you have forgotten:
1) Queen of earmarks
Threw her old friends Mr. and Mrs. Clark (ahem) under the bus!
2) Windfall profits tax on oil companies
3) For the bridge she claims she was against
4) Massive budget deficits as the mayor of a small town
5) Fired a public safety director inappropriately
6) Fired an assortment of town officials because they didn’t support her campaign
7) Mean to mooses
9) and yes, asked how she could ban books
Oopsie! This just in!
Sarah Palin’s spiritual advisor: If you criticize George Bush, you’re going to hell!
Sorry! Link!
I’ll bet she’s been photographed kicking the family dog, too.
All that and more from the Democratic Noise Machine?
Quaker,
Assembly of God vs Nation of Islam, Marx, and Weather Underground? I think we all know how the American people will vote on that one.
Assembly of God vs Nation of Islam, Marx, and Weather Underground?
What election are you watching? I don’t think any of the candidates have ties to the Nation of Islam, Marx (Karl? Harpo?), or the Weather Underground.
BTW, was there a blast fax this morning? First we had JWG claiming that Palin’s critics were accusing her of “drinking the blood of kittens.” Then Jay asking when OW would accuse her of “killing kittens and puppies.” Now we have gravypan carrying on about “kicking the family dog.”
Animal cruelty metaphors from all comers. Coincidence? I think not!
Fortunately that election isn’t happening, now or ever, and you’d have to have something wrong with you to think it was.
It’s just the next obvious target. It’s on page 666 of the Rovian Handbook.
If John McCain had done a better job vetting his nominee there wouldn’t be this much blog fodder, now would there? I’m a blogger, it’s like my constitutional duty to note when a politician chooses a secessionist, book banning, pork-barrel spending, unqualified nut to be in the second highest job in the land.
[...] TIME Magazine: Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor. [...]
“Fortunately that election isn’t happening, now or ever, and you’d have to have something wrong with you to think it was.”
Really?
Assembly of God = Kalnins (Preacher at Palin’s church)
Nation of Islam = Farahkan (Obama & Wright’s trusted friend and mentor)
Marx = Obamas FARC buddies in Columbia
Weather Underground = Bill Ayres
Sorry, but that’s the way many will see it.
Only the very, very stupid. Like, incredibly stupid. No-one who, for example, has any idea what Marx actually thought. Or uses Google News.
Nation of Islam = Obama knows a guy who knows Farakhan
Marx = FARC buddies? WTF?!?
And that’s from an RNC press release.
Weather Underground? Dude, Obama was eight years old when the Weathermen were operating.
Ms. Palin was attedning services with her crazy “criticize George Bush and go to hell” pastor right up until she was elected governor.
Actually, if he hadn’t done a good job, you’d be finding actual issues to keep posting about. So far you’ve hit one: earmarks. The rest is getting you laughed at.
Even the earmarks is going to be ignored. What’s Obama going to do — point at her and say she landed fewer earmarks than him and Biden?
Of course, Obama is already caught in the trap of comparing his experience to the VP pick, so I wouldn’t put it past him to bring up his own pork spending.
Jesus The Christ™, how do I get paranoid nutcases like Mr. William to show up on our site, they’re so much better for conversation than the sycophants!
PS – I used to keep a Quaker in my Basement. Lord he made a mess. Always ask the breeder if your Quaker is paper-trained. *Shudder.*
I have it on background that Sara Palin “drinks the blood of kittens”. When asked for a comment, Geo Beach, of Tougher in Alaska fame, responded “Of course. It tastes like Moose, and the kittens here are almost as big, so if moose is out of season. Eat a Kitty!”
Now to be serious. When is McCain going to anounce that Palin was a joke and that someone worth voting for like Romney or Ridge will be placed on a ticket.
I had such high expectations for the elections.
I originally thought that guy at Time was a Republican press person writing copy for the McCain campaign….now it seems he’s all over Sarah Palin.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1837713,00.html another more positive dispatch by him..Nathan Thornburgh
also McCain’s people are subjecting the people of Wasilla with a lot of Republican operatives I’ve heard on Public radio…doing ‘research’ post vetting….ahmmm…trying to keep the locals from speaking out. I’m thinking Alaskans are not approving of ol Sarah as much anymore.
I love the Republican trolls on OW.com. They’ll always keep me coming back.
“Wah wah wah I hate this blog it’s meaningless lefty babble! Wah wah wah why are the portions so small?”
I’m thinking of opening my blog up to comments again soon. Do I get my own Jay and duh and jmcann trolls as well? Awesome!
>I love the Republican trolls on OW.com. They’ll always keep me coming back.
It’s Oliver that keeps me coming back. It’s pretty entertaining to watch the slow motion train wreck of a guy who wants to win so badly that he’ll throw out any pretense of fairness, objectivity, or principle in pursuit of that goal.
“It’s pretty entertaining to watch the slow motion train wreck of a guy who wants to win so badly that he’ll throw out any pretense of fairness, objectivity, or principle in pursuit of that goal.”
Except all he needs to do is show the evidence.
If this was a Democrat, you would already have your pitchfork ready.
Farrakhan was never Obama’s “mentor”.
Obama has no connection with FARC.
I’ll sort-of concede you the Weather Underground reference (Obama was never actually affiliated or a member of W.U., but did indeed does have some foolish past friendly connections with a W.U. member, William Ayers).
Metteyya, a name of someone over at the Nation blog verifies more than we need to know about Sarah’s activities as Mayor of Wasilla. She used the office to promote ProLife policies even though it’s a nonpartisan position and tried to fire the librarian as it was said…but more “Mettayya” says she’s writing as a Wasilla resident or at least a Alaskan. The more we know the more we know Sarah’s anti First Amendment…if she even knows what the First Amendment which is in doubt. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/352893
if I was religious I would pray for Joe Biden to ‘out’ this antiAmerican antiFreedom whackjob.
@Rheinhard
Wasn’t that Heine guy some kind of a Jew or something? What do you expect when you get your information straight from a guy who hates Nazis? We can’t even get the storyu from somebody who doesn’t hold a grudge?
(Seriously, thanks for the quote, a beauty.)
If, In Fact, It Is Trying To Ferment Terrorist Activists In Other Borders.
Pedantic Man says that should probably be “Foment.”
Fermenting terrorists is messy and smells like feet.
That is all.
Real Issues?
Free speech is the biggest issue out there. It should be the first and foremost issue.
Without it, you can’t talk freely about ANY ISSUES.
Maybe we should be thinking about the journalists being arrested outside the rnc.
Daniel Rotter, actually Senator Obama has connections with two members of the Weather Underground.
HELLO!!
You have all reminded me why I usually never read blogs. What a complete waste of time.
I’m sorry you all don’t know how to do research. (I stumbled on this blog on my way to some facts…)
See you all later… learn to use your own minds, please. (and read a banned book TODAY!)
(P.S. – the word IS foment:
foment |ˈfōˌment; fōˈment| verb [ trans. ]
1 instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action) : they accused him of fomenting political unrest. See note at incite .
My question is, did Barack use the wrong word, or did the reporter? Education ain’t what is used to be…)
To have a person who would ban books anywhere near the white house is frightening indeed! The gop is pandering to the scum of the ‘religious’ right.
[...] organizer can’t tell anyone what to do. They have to listen. So they can’t order books banned from a library to indulge their own religious sensibilities. They can’t fire someone because [...]
I think the only book that needs to be in a library is the Christian bible. It should fill every shelf and be the only book that people should be able to read. NOT.
Sarah Palin is a super-religious far right wing fruitcake with extra nuts. She wants endangered species in Alaska removed from the endangered species list, kisses the rear ends of developers, tried to get books banned at her local library as mayor– trying to fire the librarian (Nazi book-burning party anyone?), she strongly favors teacher-initiated prayer in schools, favors teaching creationism in our schools, favored Alaska secession from the U.S., is under investigation for abusing her power as governor (a job she’s only had for a year and half), and called the Iraq war a “task from god.” Are you kidding? RUN away from this person. If anyone can’t bring themselves to vote for O and Joe, write in a third party candidate or stay home. I don’t need anyone else’s religion forced down my throat. She has executive experience that would make her a great leader— IN CHINA, not the USA.
Thanks for posting this. It’s not from the opposition campaign– it was reported by media sources who verified it and tried to interview the librarian. The librarian refused to comment, and I don’t blame her.
Full list of books then mayor Sarah Palin wanted banned from public library has leaked:
List of Sarah Palin Banned Books
It’s been reported that Ms. Palin sought to ban the works of Mark Twain. The librarian couldn’t be reached for comment. Sounds like the work of the widow Douglas, or maybe even that of scoundrel Huck Finn. Now Douglas and Finn were known troublemakers. I’m certain the nefarious pair’s history of skullduggery and collusion was unworthy of Twain’s pen. But I’d like to hear the allegation from Mary Ellen the librarian firsthand. That is, if she hasn’t mysteriously disappeared. For my own self, I can’t say enough about Sarah Palin. I liken her detractors to skaters who go down hard. Anyway, here’s a clip from Jan & Dean. Bet you can’t watch just once: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX7X4FovYRA&NR=1 And, how ‘bout them Dems: lost in space, or true tales from the Office of the Pork-master General: http://theseedsof9-11.com
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. STACLU notes that the official Obama campaign website is also perpetuating the fraud. And it’s spread to craigslist, where some unhinged user is posting images likening Palin to Hitler.
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
David, even if she didn’t want the SPECIFIC LIST OF BOOKS that you indicated banned from the library doesn’t automatically mean that she made no efforts or queries of any kind to find out how “to go about banning books” (in other words, it doesn’t automatically mean that Stein is a liar).
“To Kill A Mockingbird”? “James and the Giant Peach”? “To Kill A Mockingbird”?
I have to wonder if she has ever spoken in tongues or been faith-healed.
She is a religious zealot that would place her religious beliefs above the needs of the country. Abortion, birth control, environment (God made the earth for man to exploit), Crusades, cronyism, judges, etc…