Can anyone confirm? List of books Sarah wanted banned.

[TygrBright]

This came in an email forwarded from a friend and I had rather a hard time believing that even Sarah Palin would have the face to make such a request. Anyone heard confirmatory or refutative information on this?

>>Subject: Fwd: List of books Sarah Palin requested to be banned from her library

I realize I might be preaching to the choir but maybe you know someone thinking about voting for the GOP ticket that you can share this with. Mark Twain? John Steinbeck? William Faulkner? Rousseau? Boccaccio? Are we as a nation, in 2008, really considering electing a person who supports the banning of these books from public libraries to our 2nd highest office? I won't even begin the discussion of how many of these books she has actually read. I believe Spike Lee was quoted as saying of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (and forgive me Mr. Lee if I misquote you) 'I hated that book until I read it.' Perhaps Ms. Palin should do a little reading.

The following is a list of books that Sarah Palin tried to get banned when she was mayor of Wasilla.
This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board. When the librarian refused Palin tried to get her fired. This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned.

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 J ohn 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 s
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<<

If true, the news that Sarah tried to have Webster's Dictionary banned should be enough to get her laughed out of most venues.

curiously,
Bright

[ogneopasno]

1. False. Snopes. Bookmark it.

nt.

[anigbrowl]

2. Fake. You've been had.

An obvious giveaway: Harry Potter books weren't out in 1996. Next!

[blogslut]

3. debunked

And I would ask to have this thread deleted if it were me.

[WeDidIt]

4. Au Jeez, not this shit again...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp

[kansasblue]

12. but it seem to be slowing down (I hope)

[nxylas]

5. What is that, the third time today?

[eshfemme]

6. There was never a specific list.

Palin basically asked the librarian if it was possible to ban books and the librarian called in the cavalry that led to such an uproar that Palin backed off before she could even say what books she wanted banned.

[LiberalFighter]

7. She went only as far as to ask how to get some books banned.

[kansasblue]

8. Those Harry Potter books where not even written at the time she wanted to ban some books.

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

[gateley]

9. There IS no list. It's been debunked. nt

[scheming daemons]

10. This is a GOP psyops operation.... she wanted a handful of books banned, but not those...

This is their attempt to "Dan Rather" someone.

[bushisanidiot]

11. You don't read this forum very much do you?

this was debunked almost immediately.. like, a week ago.

[WeDidIt]

13. In the very first thread, linking to where the list actually comes from...

http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html

[lapfog_1]

14. Again, she DID ask about getting books removed

from the collection. And she DID fire (for 24 hours) the town librarian. There was some sort of "outcry" of the firing (she fired a number of other city employees as well). A city manager was hired to handle day to day decisions like this shortly thereafter.

No list of books was ever presented. The list is a Rovian trick to make the entire "book burner" issue go away (it worked so well on Dan Rather). The list is false and easily proven to be false. But she DID try to open to door to getting books removed from the city library.

[TygrBright]

15. Thanks! That's why I asked here. I posted here, then...

...went over to Snopes and had gotten two pages down in the search process and y'all had already tromped on this one.

I missed prior threads, sorry. Things do cycle through quickly here.

appreciatively,
Bright

[applegrove]

16. False. Is supposed to be from 1996 and look at all the Harry Potter on there.

[slackmaster]

17. Paging the Great Communicator...