Posts Tagged as ‘Palin’

September 15, 2008

More on Palin banning books

From The New York Times today: 
The new mayor also tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to eye the library. For years, social conservatives had pressed the library director to remove books they considered immoral.
“People would bring books back censored,” recalled former Mayor John [...]

September 13, 2008

Sarah Palin Hates Freedom

I’ve been hearing lots of rumors lately about an incident in ‘96 when Palin allegedly tried to ban select books from the Wasilla, Alaska library and have the librarian fired.
Palin twice asked about removing books from the library, but in an ABC article, she says it was a rhetorical question. 
Right. 
As a USA Today article says, a list of [...]