List of Particular Books Palin Wanted Banned from Wasila Library?

[snot]

Can anyone confirm or disconfirm the following, which was sent to me by e-mail?

Here is the list of books that Sarah Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla Public Library, according to the official minutes of the Library Board.

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 Geoffrey 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
AImpressions 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 ChristopherCollier
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 F

— Eili Klein, Deep in Student Loan Debt in NJ

[terrya]

1. That's been debunked

[Donnachaidh]

2. have you got a link?

for the debunkment, that is.

[philosophie_en_rose]

5. It's on snopes.com

:shrug:

[vaberella]

6. Here ya go...

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html

[cabbage08]

16. Thanks for the link

[Seeking Serenity]

3. Not again?!?

One last time, THIS IS A FAKE. This is a list of books banned over the years. IT IS NOT A LIST OF BOOKS SARAH PALIN ASKED TO BE BANNED!

[Aeval]

11. I wish this list would go away. It is overshadowing the bigger picture,

being that she definitely asked the librarian what she would do if asked to remove books from the shelves. And that she really did fire the woman, and then reinstate her, after an outcry, claiming it was a "test of loyalty." Every time someone debunks the list, people think the entire story is untrue. Her request, regardless of whether she had specific books in mind, is troubling and dangerous, and suggests that she would be willing and even eager to take away some of our most basic freedoms.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Looks like she OK'd "How to Govern a State in 3 Easy Lessons"

Or, "How to Decorate Your House with Animal Remains"

[yardwork]

7. Please stop posting this. It distracts from the truth.

Sarah Palin did try to censor books in Wasilla's library, but we don't know which ones, because the librarian is scared to death and will not talk about it to the press. Palin tried to fire the librarian, and she eventually left town.

This is a list of common targets of book banning campaigns by fundies. It's very likely that Sarah TaliPalin disapproves of all these books (not that she's ever read any of them) and more, but we have no evidence that she tried to ban them specifically, and some of them weren't even published when the censorship incident took place during her first term as mayor.

[ToddRodd]

8. Palin didn't like Harry Potter?? OH SHE IS SO TOAST NOW!!!

[NYCGirl]

13. Harry Potter wasn't even published when the "book banning" incident occurred.

Curb your freakout.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. DE-BUNKED. N/T

[Bluebear]

10. There is no list. But she DID approach the librarian about banning & fired her.

The librarian now is scared to say a word. That much we DO know.

[kestrel91316]

12. ENOUGH!

[demmiblue]

14. Come on! Put your thinking cap on!

[snot]

15. Thanks all!

Bef. you get too annoyed, I DID do a search first to try to find out if this had been posted (Palin + banned), and it didn't turn up; and I can't usually check DU for news more than once a day.