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.
Read the whole hting, including the "list."
UPDATE: If you go to Jessamyn West's website you will be both shocked and entertained by the comments. I tried to post a comment, but comments were closed by West, so I'll post it here.
I’m not really shocked by the arrogant attitude that is exhibited on this site by librarians. It is natural for people who consider themselves professionals to wish to have the ultimate say about their domain. But the disdain exhibited by people like Jill and Jen is still somewhat sickening.
I do understand your concern for your children, but I think that you are viewing this only through the lens of a parent. You have a duty to your children; a librarian has a duty to possibly hundreds of children.
Jill, my friend, you are a librarian. You’re not a psychologist or a social worker or a medical doctor. You are not my children’s parent while they are in the library. If you were, you would be assuming a liability that you really don’t want. You are a librarian. If you want to start your own “Jill’s Library” I would cheer you on if you wanted to put books on the shelf that would “help” abused children. I happen to think that reading a book may not be the appropriate therapy for that situation, but that’s just me.
But you have been hired to run a library paid for by money taken from the people of your community and their will prevails; or it does in a community run along democratic principles. But democratic principles seem to lose their appeal when it comes to librarians, especially when it comes to asking for their resignation. I don’t know where the simple phrase “You are not the boss of me” comes from, but librarians should look it up and remember that they are hired help, not the boss.
If that sounds a little harsh, please re-read these posts and the try to put yourself in the position of a parent, a taxpayer or just a concerned citizen. You will get the impression that librarians are smug, uptight, elitists who will tell you
“what’s good for you dammit, now shut up and sit down.” “Oh, and if you want input into what we LIBRARIANS do, these are the hoops you have to jump though.”
This blog entry and its comments are do not present an especially good image of the profession you people are practicing. Perhaps a little introspection is in order. No? There are lots of good books on that, perhaps not written by librarians.
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