Oh Sarah Palin, foolish, stupid ignorant evil dumbass

[rispacooper]

Below is a list of the books Sarah Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla, Alaska Library.

Mayor Palin would seem to be a strong force in the suburbanization of the village of Wasilla. When the Wasilla librarian refused to trash these books, Mayor Palin tried to have her fired. This caused a stir in Wasilla which then turned into a drive to protect the librarian.

"The attempt to ban American literary masterpieces like Catcher In The Rye, Grapes Of Wrath, To Kill A Mockingbird, Death Of A Salesman, Leaves Of Grass, As I Lay Dying, Huckleberry Finn, Catch 22 and Tarzan indicates, flags and Bible citations aside, her ascendance to national power would be downright un-American." --John Grant

Um, seriously...Roald Dahl?



> >This list is taken from the official minutes of the
> Wasilla Library Board.
> >
> >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 Geoffrey 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 Bart

Or not?

Still, that it's so easy to believe about her says a lot.

Edit: You know, reading more on this, true or not, (though the verdict seems to be, hint of truth, she did ask about it) it still all leads back to the fact that she won't answer questions about it, and she won't give interviews unless she's treated with "deference" by the press.
(She's not Mother Theresa, so wtf about that, btw?) And those people wondering why people are focusing on this issue...? Um because past behavior is a good indicator of future behavior. Because freedom of speech and of the press are sort of THE BASIS OF OUR COUNTRY. Because I don't want someone in charge who isn't open to new ideas. Period.