The SoetorObama campaign has been spreading smears that Sarah Palin banned books in Alaska — that is patently untrue.
SoetorObama is so afraid of Palin his goons crank out another nasty smear and rumor every day — the book banning one was absurd because they claim Palin did this in 1996, but many of the books supposedly on the banned list weren’t even written until at least 1998. So, not only did they accuse Palin of banning books, but they called her a witch too — one that can peer into the future with mystical psychic powers to find books to ban that aren’t even written yet.
Burn the witch!
Here’s Michelle Malkin tearing this smear apart:
Palin Derangement Syndrome strikes again. This time it’s hysterical librarians and their readers on the Internet disseminating a bogus list of books Gov. Sarah Palin supposedly banned in 1996. Looks like some of these library people failed reading comprehension. Take a look at the list below and you’ll find books Gov. Palin supposedly tried to ban…that hadn’t even been published yet. Example: The Harry Potter books, the first of which wasn’t published until 1998.
The smear merchants who continue to circulate the list also failed to do a simple Google search, which would have showed them that the bogus Sarah Palin Banned Book List is almost an exact copy-and-paste reproduction of a generic list of “Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States” that has been floating around the Internet for years. STACLU notes that the official Obama campaign website is also perpetuating the fraud. And it’s spread to craigslist, where some unhinged user is posting images likening Palin to Hitler. Here it is again.
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.”
It’s a fake. Not true. Total B.S. A lie.
If it gets sent to you by a moonbat friend or family member, set ‘em all straight. Fight the smears. They’ve only just begun.
September 6, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Thank you for publishing this! I have gotten a million e-mails from my friends (who are in frenzy to convince me not to vote for McCain) have sent me so many e-mails about this and I thought it sounded ridiculous, but didn’t have any proof.
Actually thank you for all of your posts. You guys are awesome!!!!! Yours is the only blog I read every day, because you are both very smart and entertaining, and you’re the only ones who give voice to exactly the way so many of us feel about this election.
September 6, 2008 at 1:57 pm
There are a number of sources that she talked to the city librarian about banning books. There was even a group formed to support the librarian.
The only thing not true is the list of books.
And someone posting it in a personal blog on my.barackobama.com does not mean the official site has mentioned the list (any more than you endorse my comments).
September 6, 2008 at 5:35 pm
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September 7, 2008 at 4:12 am
Thank you, Logic, for pointing that out.
The list is a straw man, the real problem many have is that a mayor would even think she might have the authority to ban books, which it is evident Palin did, as she asked how to go about it.
But that’s all there is to it, just a brief glimpse into her thinking about the role of government. That’s it.
September 7, 2008 at 4:14 am
Also…This…
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The SoetorObama campaign has been spreading smears that Sarah Palin banned books in Alaska — that is patently untrue.
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Is patently untrue. Unless, of course, you have an official source somewhere? The original allegation came from a number of places, including Wasilla itself. Google “Letter from Wasilla” and you can even go straight to Snopes and verify it.