Right Voices

This sentence was copied and pasted from Obama’s site…read this sentence out loud:

Here’s the list and a little preamble that goes along with the list from the person who provided this list of proposed banned books:

Now, here is the copied and pasted list..as you can tell by the arrows throughout, this was copied from an email:

More things to learn about Sarah Palin> >For those of you who think that all of the opposition to Sarah Palin is >from “leftwing” nuts; the following is a list of books that she tried to >get banned when she was mayor of Wasilla. I am not sure that Mark Twain, >William Shakespeare, Maya Angelou and Geoffrey Chaucer would be considered >dangerous to children. Judy Blume give me a break. Harry Potter, who is >kidding who. I also fail to see how Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate >Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff should be banned.> >This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library >Board. When the librarian refused Palin tried to get her fired as she did >with the Safety Director of the State who refused to fire a trooper who was >getting a vicious divorce from her sister> >She also told her Assembly of God Church in June 2008 that it is “God’s >Will” that the federal government contribute to the expansion of the Alaska >pipeline. (M ust have been talking to George Bush). She sounds like one of >those lawyers Bush put into the justice department.> >This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned. As many of you will >notice it is a hit parade for book burners.> >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 Aristophane 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

Here is the very first comment and his reply to the comment:

By Helene V. Yesterday at 12:28 pm EDT (Updated Yesterday at 12:28 pm EDT)

I am a librarian and unfortunately I have to warn against releasing this list. It seems that it is not accurate and came from an unreliable web source. However, it is true that Palin tried to harass the town librarian and threatened to fire her if she did not remove books which the Pit Bull found offensive.

Re: Read My …  |  Report to Admin

Reply

By Mark Brickman Yesterday at 4:09 pm EDT (Updated Yesterday at 4:09 pm EDT)

Thank you for the admonition. I have no way to vet this information. But it should be taken into consideration for whatever value it has. I worked in a library for four years myself in my earlier life and become concerned if any person and particularly an elected official moves to get even one book banned.

Okay, a few things things.  The Librarian tells him that it is not accurate, and I will prove her correct in a moment, but then she goes on to state that Palin harrassed the town librarian, yet offers no proof.  Mark, the author of the blog, acknowledges her admonition, and yet we should still take the list into consideration???  Palin is alledged to have tried to ban them in 1996, yet Harry Potter didn’t get published until 1998.

Where did the list come from..hmmm, oh I know: a generic list of “Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States” that has been floating around the Internet for years.

Michelle points out:

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 spread to craigslist, where some unhinged user is posting images likening Palin to Hitler. Here it is again.

From the Anchorage Daily News story that inflamed P.D.S.: (read it from beginning to end!)

STACLU: “What the hell will they just make up next?”

Ed: Another Palin Smear Bites The Dust.  No, she didn’t have an affair, but let’s make her out to be the town whore.  Be sure to read the entire piece:

Charles Martin at Explorations has the list of debunked slurs and innuendo, and it’s getting pretty lengthy.  Coming up next: Sarah Palin is an extraterrestrial looking to infiltrate human society!  Where’s the Weekly World News when you need it?

So to recap, Sarah Palin is not a homewrecking whore and  she didn’t ban any books,  but a media whore, seeking her 15 minutes of fame, is trying to milk the story for all it isn’t worth.

Others blogging:

• Stop the Sarah Palin Smears
• Swamp Hermit’s *QUICK* Bits « The Swamp Hermit’s Report
• Palin Rumors | Explorations
• Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Apologies From The MSM Over Palin
• On the Right
• Neocon News » Palin Pandemonium continues in the MSM

Update II: Just spitballing here, but what stereotypes of naughty women have the media and the lunatics missed?  So far, they’ve made her out to be a slut, a b***h, a beauty-queen airhead, and an unfit mother.  She’s obviously not frigid, so that smear won’t work.  How many other demeaning gender-based slurs can they throw her way?

Others blogging:

• P.D.S. Alert! Palin banning books, before even in print. She has to be stopped, at all costs! « Republican Party of Jefferson County, TN
• The Next Palin Smear « Antihippies
• Palin the Book Burner? | The Daily Conservative
• Attention Mythmakers And Wannabes | Blue Grass, Red State

UPDATE 9/9/2008: Via Okie on the Lam

[Update: As I suspected and predicted, the Obama campaign has taken down the page shown below without explanation " you get this message instead, "ERROR: invalid page requested." The Google cache doesn't show up the page either " fancy that . . .]

Now, just in case someone over in Obamessiah land comes to their senses (not real likely!) and removes ol’ Mark’s blog post, I’ve got the screen capture shown here ” view the image to see it full size. I’ll post his last ‘graph and the list for your reference ” note the lie I’ve bolded in the first sentence.

This is the list that comes from the records of the Wasilla library. Most of these books are not a surprise, but some of them do raise some questions as to whether she wants citizens to be left completely uninformed and uninspired.

Here’s the list and a little preamble that goes along with the list from the person who provided this list of proposed banned books:

More things to learn about Sarah Palin> >For those of you who think that all of the opposition to Sarah Palin is >from “leftwing” nuts; the following is a list of books that she tried to >get banned when she was mayor of Wasilla. I am not sure that Mark Twain, >William Shakespeare, Maya Angelou and Geoffrey Chaucer would be considered >dangerous to children. Judy Blume give me a break. Harry Potter, who is >kidding who. I also fail to see how Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate >Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff should be banned.> >This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library >Board. When the librarian refused Palin tried to get her fired as she did >with the Safety Director of the State who refused to fire a trooper who was >getting a vicious divorce from her sister> >She also told her Assembly of God Church in June 2008 that it is “God’s >Will” that the federal government contribute to the expansion of the Alaska >pipeline. (M ust have been talking to George Bush). She sounds like one of >those lawyers Bush put into the justice department.> >This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned. As many of you will >notice it is a hit parade for book burners.> >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 Aristophane 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

It’s a sucky presentation, no? Go to Michelle’s to see it presented in list format ” I wanted you to get a feel for the nuttery aspect of how the Obama camp is comfortable with their information presentations. BTW ” the comments following the post show that our side is staying on point, and calling out the official Obama-supporter smear merchants ” Here’s a taste:

Reader Comments

* Write a Comment on this Post
* Comments RSS

Read My : | Report to Admin
Reply
By Helene V. Yesterday at 12:28 pm EDT (Updated Yesterday at 12:28 pm EDT)
I am a librarian and unfortunately I have to warn against releasing this list. It seems that it is not accurate and came from an unreliable web source. However, it is true that Palin tried to harass the town librarian and threatened to fire her if she did not remove books which the Pit Bull found offensive.
Re: Read My : | Report to Admin
Reply
By Mark Brickman Yesterday at 4:09 pm EDT (Updated Yesterday at 4:09 pm EDT)
Thank you for the admonition. I have no way to vet this information. But it should be taken into consideration for whatever value it has. I worked in a library for four years myself in my earlier life and become concerned if any person and particularly an elected official moves to get even one book banned.
Re: Read My : | Report to Admin
Reply
By BarrackSucks from Fair Oaks, CA Today at 12:30 am EDT (Updated Today at 12:30 am EDT)
Please keep posting these completely un-researched rumors. Your list is one that’s been floating around the internet for years. The fact that you didn’t realize this means you learned absolutely nothing about research during your “years” as a librarian: These base-less allegations will do nothing but fan the flames and make Palin even more popular than she is now. You’re working harder for McCain than most volunteers! Keep up the good work!
Re: Read My : | Report to Admin
Reply
By NoKoolAid from Laguna Hills, CA Today at 1:35 am EDT (Updated Today at 1:35 am EDT)
After being admonished for posting blatantly false information, Brickman responds; “But it should be taken into consideration for whatever value it has.” Are you kidding? Are you libs really THIS stupid? Hey, nummy, you were just informed that the post is FALSE. What possible value could it have? None to normal, honest, intelligent people. Your response says a lot about how you people think(?). Pathetic. No wonder you would actually consider voting for a zero like Obama.
Re: Read My : | Report to Admin
Reply
By Mickey from Little Hocking, OH Today at 12:40 am EDT (Updated Today at 12:40 am EDT)
You have no way to vet the information, so I can take it that you are purposefully submitting what you know to be a lie. Your submission has only the value of an unproven smear designed to denigrate and slime another. “Here’s the list and a little preamble that goes along with the list from the person who provided this list of proposed banned books”:.do tell, so who is the “person who provided this list?” Don’t misunderstand me:I have no problem with you continuing to post lies as it can only demean yourself and the candidate under whose banner you post, because everyone else will take THAT into consideration and give it full value, though it may not be the value or worth you intend.
Re: Read My : | Report to Admin
Reply
By Jeff from Ardmore, PA Today at 7:16 am EDT (Updated Today at 7:16 am EDT)
You have got to be kidding – despite the fact the list is bogus, you want to post it for whatever “value” it may have? So any unfounded allegation is worth repeating just because it MAY be true?

Sarah Palin does not have friends who are terrorists, and did not spend 20 years taking her family to listen to a hate-mongering preacher. Those are allegations that ARE true about Obama. Yet somehow they are supposed to be off-limits, while lies about Palin are fair game.

Amazing | Report to Admin
Reply
By Mickey from Newark, CA Today at 1:17 am EDT (Updated Today at 1:17 am EDT)
Saracuda is more amazing that anyone had thought. Who else would have the incredible foresight to ban the Harry Potter books before any of them had been published.
Her psychic abilities amaze me.