Sunday, September 7, 2008

Sarah Palin's Time Machine

Sarah Palin's Time Machine

She must have one. How else to explain this? Michelle Malkin tells us about a list that is being circulated of books that supposedly Sarah Palin tried to get banned:
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.
Now, there are people that believe in banning books. I mentioned back in 2006 liberal law professor Eric Muller's efforts to get Malkin's book prohibited from government bookstores, and his discussion of filing suit against book publishers for selling a book to a public school that he found offensive because it promoted Christianity. But that's par for the course with liberals, who seem at least as hostile to freedom of speech (unless it involves naked children) as any conservative.

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