Video - ABC investigates Sarah Palin's book censorship

Campaign 08: Censorship Sarah
The Nation: Top Stories — Brian Ross of ABC News did a great report last night on how Sarah Palin tried to ban books and fired the town librarian when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. Here are the most relevant sections: ROSS: Around the time Palin became mayor, [Palin's] church and other conservative Christians began to focus on certain books available in local stores and in the town library, including one called "Go Ask Alice," and another one written by a local pastor, Howard Bess, called "Pastor, I am Gay." BESS: This whole thing of controlling, you know, information, censorship, yeah. That's a part of the scene. ROSS: Not long after taking office, Palin raised the issue at a city ...

Dear America
Sadly, No! — Yeah, I know she shoots guns and eats mooseburgers. But look: I really don’t want my vice president to be a crazy woman who thinks it might be a good idea to ban books from public libraries. The Republicans are insulting your intelligence, America. Please do not prove them right. Kthxbai, Brad ...

ABC Does An Actual Investigation
Balloon Juice — Shocking what happens when you actually investigate things: You find out they are exactly who they think they are.

Yep, She Tried to Ban Books
Obsidian Wings — by publius Via Ari Berman, ABC News moves the ball a bit on whether Sarah Palin attempted to ban books in the local library. To believe Palin's version, you must think (1) she was just casually asking a rhetorical question; and (2) the subsequent firing of the librarian had nothing to do with the librarian's sharp resistance to Palin's ...

ABC report on Palin’s inquiry into book banning at Wasilla library
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Pam Spaulding Brian Ross of ABC has been digging into some of the myriad scandals swirling around Sarah Palin. In this report, he addresses Palin’s inquiry into removing books from the Wasilla town library, and her interactions with the librarian. The transcript of the ABC report is below the fold. Contrary to reports all over the intertubes, there is no list of books that Palin requested the removal of. However, the transcript has plenty of information from locals on the wingnuttery of Palin on other matters: ROBIN ROBERTS: No doubt Sarah Palin has a huge ...

Sarah Palin… Fascist?
HorsesAss.Org — I suppose, if the American people want Sarah Palin a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency, that’s up to them, but as for me, I’d fear for my liberty should she ever take the reins of our government. Nazi Germany banned books. The Soviet Union banned books. Saudi Arabia bans books. But a small town American mayor firing a librarian for her lack of political compliance? You’d think that would be a career killer for anybody trying to climb the political ladder in, you know… a democracy.

WWSB: What Would Sarah Ban? The Investigation Continues…
Firedoglake — Still wondering what books Sarah Palin wanted to ban? Brian Ross, of ABC News, reports -- and doesn't get any answers on specific titles from Palin or her pals. But he does ascertain that Palin herself admits to asking about book banning on two separate occasions. If, as her pal in the report ...

The World Does Not Begin And End With Sarah Palin-- Sure She's Corrupt But She's Just Like So Many Other Slimy Political Hacks
DownWithTyranny! — "When racism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in bacon and wearing lipstick." The headlines may be filled with the latest Palin story-- not the son who cut the school bus breaks and kept getting busted on drug charges and not the daughter who slept with half the guys in town, but Sarah's own multiple examples of stealing from the ...

ABC on Sarah Palin's book-banning
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Scathing report from ABC this morning on Sarah Palin's book-banning inclinations while she was mayor of Wasilla. Watch this video, then send it around: ...

Did Palin Want To Ban Books?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ABC investigates:

ABC Reports on Palin's Book Banning Attempt
BlondeSense — ABC Reports on Palin's Book Banning Attempt Posted by BlondeSense Liz | 7:36 AM | [image] [image]

Palin's book-banning efforts, redux
Political Animal — PALIN'S BOOK-BANNING EFFORTS, REDUX.... Here's what we know about Sarah Palin's interest in banning books. Time reported last week that Palin asked the Wasilla librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, about the process for banning library books. Baker was reportedly "aghast" at the question. Soon after taking office, Palin, according to a New York Times report , fired Baker, and news reports from the time indicate that Palin thought Baker hadn't done enough to give her " full support " to the mayor. Palin reversed course on Baker's dismissal after a local outcry, and later said the discussions about banning books were "rhetorical." Yesterday, ABC News' ...

More Elitism
Matthew Yglesias — Oh here goes Steve Benen again with elitist talk about how Sarah Palin wanted to ban books from the Wasilia, AK library. What’s the matter, no Widener Library in small towns so you look down your noses at that? Here ABC News’ Brian Ross sneers at Palin’s working class background by suggesting that it’s dishonest to say stuff that isn’t true: I just don’t understand why it is that liberals keep smearing Palin’s kids by bringing up this business about their mother’s policy record and about whether or not John McCain and his campaign ...

ABC Investigates Palin Censorship
Open Left - Front Page — One of Palin's skeletons she's been lying about, trying to deny she had censorship on her mind. ABC does a pretty fair job at uncovering the truth. Still, you may want more.... Palin's lie, that her questions about censorship were purely "rhetorical" was refuted at the time, according contemporary newspaper reports, cited on the Alaska GLBT blog, Bent Alaska, in the diary, Palmer Pastor's Gay-Positive Book was on Mayor Palin's Censor List: In Dec. 1996, reporter Paul Stuart wrote an article about the censorship controversy in the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman. ...

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