Books Sarah Palin Never Banned
September 7, 2008 / 11:40 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierI’ll just keep writing about this garbage because you won’t be seeing clear reporting. Even on Fox this morning, the message is that the press still has it’s collective panties in a wad because they haven’t had adequate access to Sarah Palin–thus, in their sour grapes, it is perfectly justifiable to report smears. I mean, what else can they do if John McCain won’t play along?
Some media “expert” gloated that John McCain was changing his tune because it “never works” to go after the press. And oh, yes, well, of course, the press is biased liberally, that’s not news. The Republicans just have to deal with it. That’s the way it is. Um, that’s the way it used to be. It used to be that the biased media could say anything and there was no way to counter the claims. Well, there is now.
There are two more rumors swirling around. I mean, seriously, have you ever seen the press and the left so apoplectic and grasping? The internal Obama poll numbers must be horrendous. Right now, the banned books. Michelle Malkin dissects the whole story and I’m relying on her reporting:
The person who first spread the Palin smear is identified as “Andrew Aucoin,” a commenter on the blog of librarian Jessamyn West. West has done the right thing in keeping the bogus comment up and pointing out in her main post that “there appears to be no truth to the claim made by the commenter, and no further documentation or support for this has turned up.”
One of Michelle’s readers notes this:
Reader Martin: “If you read the Anchorage Daily News article, towards the bottom, you find that Palin requested the resignations not only of the librarian, but of several other township officials. Why? Because they were political appointees who openly supported her political opponent. Palin requested the resignations a few days BEFORE she assumed office, apparently for political reasons, as would be routine in ALL such situations, including in the very small town of Washington, DC. [Didn’t some no-name politician fire all of the US Attorneys?] Frankly, it’s far more remarkable (and shows a great deal of tolerance) for Palin to have KEPT Emmons in office. And you’d think people would consider the source when Emmons claims Palin wanted to ban books.”
I’m guessing that Sarah Palin loves books and librarians, too! And I’m quite sure librarians love Sarah. At least one does.
3 Responses to “Books Sarah Palin Never Banned”
September 7 2008 / 9:07 pm
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The librarian who resigned was president of the Alaska Library Association when Palin was elected mayor. As a refugee from the library profession, it is inconceivable to me that the chief officer of a state library association would lack the resources and sense of professional responsibility to fight a book banning request. She would have been able to draw upon the financial and human resources of the Alaska Library Association, and probably the American Library Association as well.
But there’s no indication that this librarian rallied her colleagues to defend intellectual freedom in Wasilla. According to the Anchorage Daily News, the woman who has chaired the Alaska Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee since the 1980s doesn’t remember this ever being brought to her attention.
This smear is bunk, just like the rest of them, but that hasn’t stopped librarians from flooding my inbox with this nonsense. Seems like they could learn a thing or two about vetting from John McCain.
September 7 2008 / 9:42 pm
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This article in the Anchorage Daily tells the story much more fully than I can.
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515512.html.
But Jenn Q. Public, you’re quite right. The Librarian in question did have the resources to defend herself. “Emmons had been city librarian for seven years and was well liked. After a wave of public support for her, Palin relented and let Emmons keep her job.” The smear appears quite true – to the point that the poor woman had to fight valiantly to keep her job.
September 11 2008 / 9:12 pm
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I also am a librarian who supports Sarah Palin. This is probably all hyped up just because she as a mom did not want her 6 year old checking out Catcher in the Rye. It is understandable she was concerned. Even so there is no proof she ever banned any books.