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 Sep 11 2008, 09:34 PM
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 yan lin♥  Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,129 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,627  |
here's a paragraph from Time Magazine:
QUOTE [Former Wasilla mayor] 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. Here is the list of books Palin tried to have banned (as per the librarian; officially unconfirmed). 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 |
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Sep 11 2008, 09:37 PM
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that sounds like dee, most likely because she can't read words bigger than bottle
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Sep 11 2008, 09:43 PM
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harry potter
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Sep 11 2008, 09:46 PM
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yan lin♥ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,129 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,627 |
dood. even the little red riding hood is on this list.
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Sep 11 2008, 09:47 PM
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I'm Jc Group: Mentor Posts: 13,619 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 437,556 |
QUOTE(misoshiru @ Sep 11 2008, 09:46 PM)  dood. even the little red riding hood is on this list. 
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Sep 11 2008, 09:48 PM
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LOL Little Red Riding Hood is pretty sick... xD
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Sep 11 2008, 09:55 PM
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wtf. I was "aghast" myself man.
What is her problem? |
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Sep 12 2008, 12:05 AM
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EDIT
I heard it's a false list. |
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Sep 12 2008, 12:08 AM
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^ this isn't 4chan.
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Sep 12 2008, 12:13 AM
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This is sad. She even tried to ban a dictionary?
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Sep 12 2008, 12:34 AM
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QUOTE(misoshiru @ Sep 11 2008, 10:34 PM) Here is the list of books Palin tried to have banned (as per the librarian; officially unconfirmed).  I'd really like to see a confirmed list. I could not be more horrified that she tried to ban books at all, but this list looks a bit too contrived. |
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Sep 12 2008, 01:32 AM
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 say maydayism. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,447 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 26,344 |
This list looks too fake to be true. :|
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Sep 12 2008, 01:37 AM
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Shakespeare....?
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Sep 12 2008, 01:40 AM
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QUOTE(brooklyneast05 @ Sep 11 2008, 07:43 PM) harry potter Now now, that's not true. Happy Potter 5-7 aren't listed! 
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Sep 12 2008, 02:15 AM
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WTF?  If that's really true |
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Sep 12 2008, 06:17 AM
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Sep 12 2008, 10:50 AM
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yan lin♥ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,129 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,627 |
oh yes. and that's also why even the New York Times has an article about Sarah Palin's desire to ban books.
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Sep 12 2008, 11:19 AM
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Just because a site is called fact check doesn't mean it doesn't still contain half truths. Not to mention that hypothetically discussing banning books and then having the librarian mysteriously be fired wouldn't really make her that much more innocent.
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Sep 12 2008, 11:41 AM
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 Mais je ne l'aime pas Group: Member Posts: 971 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 108,135 |
I saw on Good Morning America that one of the books she tried to ban was Go Ask Alice.
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Sep 12 2008, 05:14 PM
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QUOTE(paperplane @ Sep 12 2008, 12:19 PM) Just because a site is called fact check doesn't mean it doesn't still contain half truths. Not to mention that hypothetically discussing banning books and then having the librarian mysteriously be fired wouldn't really make her that much more innocent. True, but they prove the list to be false. |
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Sep 12 2008, 05:37 PM
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 Hello Newman. Group: Member Posts: 912 Joined: Sep 2007 Member No: 578,620 |
holy sh*t.
like there ever gonna be able to go that, though. |
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Sep 12 2008, 06:44 PM
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durian Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 13,124 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,860 |
QUOTE(kreios @ Sep 12 2008, 12:04 AM) That's only because she was in office from 1996-2002, the 5th book wasn't published until 2003. Wow, you even know when the books were published? 
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Sep 12 2008, 09:27 PM
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 omnomnom Group: Member Posts: 1,776 Joined: Jul 2005 Member No: 180,688 |
QUOTE(DontStealMyNameImJamie @ Sep 12 2008, 07:17 AM) This website seems biased :/ |
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Sep 12 2008, 09:46 PM
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 Flamebow Group: Member Posts: 299 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 76,444 |
QUOTE(coconutter @ Sep 12 2008, 10:27 PM) This website seems biased :/ Not really, they dig up dirt on all the candidates. |
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Sep 12 2008, 10:12 PM
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Some of the books she was reported to have banned were published after she left office.
Its the democratic party's attack on Palin. Its dirty, cheap, and false. |
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