Pissed off Librarians going after Palin .. already have a website up: "Librarians Against Palin"

[99th_Monkey]

Palin not only pissed off every community worker in the nation, but also all librarians
when they learn what a conniving bullying book-burner she is.

You may want to email the link to all your librarian friends.

http://librariansagainstpalin.wordpress.com/

[Nikki Stone1]

1. kick and recommend

:kick:

[Honeycombe8]

2. The list grows. First, Catholics. Then librarians. Then community organizers. Who's next? nt

[Botany]

5. Police Unions too

Nice choice John

[99th_Monkey]

6. Don't forget the M$M. I hear CNN's unloading on McSame and Palin today. hee hee. ~nt~

[Honeycombe8]

8. Oh, that's right. The MSM....she ticked them off big time. nt

[hootinholler]

36. Someone at the Nation called her a liar and a coward.

:rofl:

I swear they are trying to lose.

[tbyg52]

37. Oh, argh, but all that matters is who *counts* the votes.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203

[MadMaddie]

12. I gotta feeling that we will be hearing about her racist

and homophobic biases.

Just guessing...

[BronxBoy]

48. I agree

That train is never late

[nc4bo]

14. Steelworkers' Union none to happy atm either. nt

[justiceischeap]

27. Jews for Jesus anyone? (eom)

[OneGrassRoot]

31. What about Catholics?

I've been posting, asking for info about that. I know that most fundamental evangelical types I'm surrounded by think Catholics are heathens and not Christians.

I feel confident she is of the same belief, but want to make sure Catholics are aware of it.

Do you have more information about Catholics upset with her candidacy?

Thanks. :)

[childslibrarian]

3. Whoo hoo!

Go librarians!:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[BlueIdaho]

4. Librarians take this stuff seriously - and so do lots of other Americans.

Lets help people visualize little Ms Gimmick throwing books into the bonfire - especially Harry Potter.

Hey I wonder if J.K. Rowling would like to say a word or two about little Gimmick?

[99th_Monkey]

9. Actually, Rowling does have a few words for Palin.

"The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore should be treated with caution."

~J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

[roguevalley]

30. Librarians have a network and resources that would shock you.

you don't mess with the first amendment and librarians. My mom was one. she never lost. :)

I love you, Mom. You were my hero.

Rv, daughter of Dorothy, hero.

[BlueIdaho]

32. Amen!

I worked as a "media guy" in a college library for about ten years - Librarians are constitutional heros one and all!

[alsame]

7. Just over a week and Palin has already managed to alienate

significant voter blocks. She's good, she's really good - for us. Thanks, McCain!

[graywarrior]

10. Don't piss off librarians....ever.

[Ishoutandscream2]

17. Absolutely!!!

I live in a very red community, and I bought a copy of Fahrenheit 911 to give to our library. I knew this would be unpopular at the time, and I stated that to the librarian. With a bit of a sneer, she proclaimed, "We don't do censorship here!" I simply said "Thank you" and left with a smile on my face.

[carolinayellowdog]

11. I predicted a reaction yesterday and am glad it was fast

I just retired as a public library director and never in a thirty year career did I hear of a mayor like Palin.

[Quixote1818]

13. Will this mean Laura Bush won't vote for her now? That would be a good question for Laura. nt

[skooooo]

22. She's not a real librarian..don't think she has her MLS...nt

[Kdillard]

15. Go Librarians :) Now let's hope she opens her big mouth again

and pisses off more people.

[chat_noir]

16. Banned Books Week September 27–October 4, 2008

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.cfm

Dems should get the word out about protests against banning books, and, of course, feature Palin prominently.

[Honeycombe8]

18. Add to that list, "The Diary of Anne Frank." (for sexual references..it was removed from

my school, then put back in later - some sex references deleted.)

[Ishoutandscream2]

19. What??? Oh my God, when was this??

That is just amazing!

[Honeycombe8]

23. The 60's. You know...a young girl's diary...she was just beg. to be aware

of sex, her body, etc. There was a young man in that room with them. Her parents would have sex, I think. The part they left in, as I recall, was just a reference to her exploring her own body one night, when she felt her breasts after noticing them. She was only 13, I think.

Can you imagine banning that book? And the effect it had on me, as a young girl, was astounding. It formed my view of what the Nazis did and made it personal to me, since I totally related to her.

[Ishoutandscream2]

28. Whew! Okay, the 60's.

While that was still very wrong, that is more logical to me. We were so much more "sheltered" in those days.

If my daughter came home from her school today, and told me Anne Frank had been pulled from the shelves, I would absolutely lose it!

[Honeycombe8]

42. And it was banned from schools, not libraries, as far as I know. nt

[Ishoutandscream2]

21. Unreal.

I remember my 11th grade English teacher whispering to me privately to read "Catcher in the Rye." That was in 1978.

[tosh]

34. I'm so proud!

I read each one of those books at some point between grades 7 & 12.

I had a great Mom, great English/Lit teachers....and great librarians!

[Barack_America]

38. East of Eden?

:wtf:

That's the only Steinbeck novel that DIDN'T make me want to slash my wrists!

[chat_noir]

20. LIBRARIANS AGAINST PALIN

bumperstickers: http://www.cafepress.com/nogop2008.301558480

We ought to send one to Laura Bush.

[chat_noir]

24. Google: Celebrate Your Freedom to Read

Explore Banned Books

http://books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/

[Papa Boule]

25. Anyone have a list of the books she wanted banned?

[kestrel91316]

26. I'm assuming pretty much everything except the Assembly of

God-approved version of the bible. And My Pet Goat.

[carolinayellowdog]

39. Just got the list by email from a friend

List of books Sarah Palin wanted to ban

Below is a paragraph from this week's Time magazine article on Sarah Palin:



" Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving "full support" to the mayor."



Mary Ellen Baker resigned from her library director job in 1999.



Here 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 John 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
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

[Bernardo de La Paz]

41. Stop posting that crap! She did not ban that list! Everytime you do it, you sabotage the cause.

Stop posting that crap! She did not ban that list! Everytime you do it, you sabotage the cause.

That list is the standard list that librarians pass around.

Palin fired the librarian and then allowed her to come back. No actual books were mentioned. Palin only discussed the concept of banning books with her, but the real fact is that such a discussion is not "rhetorical", as Palin would have the sheeple believe, but more like Sluggo coming around to discuss your "fire insurance".

But get your facts straight first.

[carolinayellowdog]

46. Many facts remain unclear

I will apologize for the umpteenth time and never post at DU again. Last night, the website was hunting for a list, and when I got one by email this morning it was mistakenly presented as coming from the new Time article. I should have checked, and am sorry that I have polluted this excellent thread. I posted one before it that explained how a recently retired public library director sees Palin.

Emmons has not given much information yet, so the fact that there was apparently not a list at the time of the original firing/unfiring does not mean that specific titles were never mentioned in subsequent discussions with the mayor before the librarian finally left in 1999.

Note that Emmons was the president of the Alaska Library Association at the time, and thus Palin seemed to be picking a fight with the entire profession. Surely much will emerge in days to come of interest to us all.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

47. Apology accepted.

[slackmaster]

43. Please don't pollute this excellent thread with that bullshit list

The topic is excellent.

Do note that the link in the OP does NOT lead to that generic list of books that have been banned in the past.

[Frumious B]

29. People might say my priorities are out of whack.

However, that tidbit about Palin wanting books removed from the library pushes me over the damned edge more than any of the other things I've found out about her since that fateful Friday that John McCain foisted her upon an unsuspecting nation. Book banning is just so un-friggin'-American and I know that there are plenty of people across the political spectrum who find it repulsive. I would be absolutely ashamed to vote for anyone who had ever advocated banning books. I hope those librarians manage to track down the complete or partial list of books that she wanted removed soon because that needs to be spread far and wide.

[DeepModem Mom]

33. K&R

[Bobbie Jo]

35. Wow! Organized Librarian Activists...Awesome!

When Librarians become activists, you know the shit is on!

Change is in the air, indeed! :kick:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

40. debate or Press question : What books would you like to ban? nt.

[JBoy]

44. A Palin library would have two sections for audio books: English and Tongues.

[tannybogus]

45. I believe librarians are one of the last walls holding against the current facism of Bushco!

They deserve "Medals of Freedom." (of course there are exceptions-the obligatory but) I have read so many stories about how they have stood up to the Nazis acting under

the guise of protecting our nation from __________(fill in the blank). People dismiss them because of their "timid" sterotype. All of us on this thread and those dolts

who aren't aware of what's happening should say a prayer each day for them!! They are the true patriots! I'd rather stir up a nest of fire ants. They have the resources

and the will to fry you. :yourock::applause::patriot:

[crankychatter]

49. "them tar'rists" were against the patriot act too

I only hope they can wrest emblematic eyeglasses away from the lipstick pitbull

[Mrs. Overall]

50. Music to my ears this morning. A BIG K&R!!

[Towlie]

51. Apparently the Librarians Against Palin have been around for at least 12 years.

After I relayed this news to another forum, a Palin supporter claimed that the site had been up since the end of 1996.

My reply: "So they didn't just now organize after Palin's nomination? Well, that only makes the librarians that much more credible. Thanks!"

[99th_Monkey]

54. Librarians are no dummies. They've been onto her for awhile ... like 12 years.. what a hoot. ~nt~

[southern_belle]

52. k & r n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

53. the librarians around here are up in arms!

they want her banned

[vanderBeth]

55. Good for Librarians.