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rulemylife -> RE: Palins book banning (9/10/2008 1:41:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: bipolarber
Since I brought this subject up when it was first reported, I thought I'd post a follow up on the "rumor."
1) Palin did ask the librarian of Wassilla, about what steps she would have to undergo, and what the librarian's reaction would be, if Palin were to ask her to remove certain books from the collection.
2) The list that has been circulating about the net, supposedly of the books Palin wanted taken off the shelves, is not accurate. It's a cut and paste from a website that lists books that have been targets of book banning. There is no record of which books Palin intended to ban.
3) Palin herself characterizes the question about the books as being a "rhetorical loyalty test" and that she never intended to bad any books.
4) Apparently, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, didn't pass. She was first asked for her resignation by Palin, then was summarily fired, when she didn't comply.
5) The local paper ran the story on Emmons firing.
6) Palin reinstated the librarian's job, once it became publicly known.
7) Palin later asked Emmons TWO MORE TIMES, during her stint as mayor, if she could ban books.
8) Emmons retired from the library system in 1999.
9) as of this date, no books have been banned from the Wassila township library... there is no hard evidence, no memos, no mayoral edicts, of Palins attempts at this. Only the reporting of the incident from the local paper, from editions of the time, and word of mouth.
(All I can say is, thank god for people like Mary Ellen Emmons...)
A "rhetorical loyalty test"? That's pretty scary in itself.
No, that's really scary.
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