MSM homework: Find the Wasilla City Librarian, and ask WHICH books Palin wanted REMOVED.

[npincus]

Just like old times!




http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/an-wasillan-on.html

While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day. Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).


OK, MSM. find this person, and get the lowdown... and any correpsondence, recordes left on the matter.

[liberal N proud]

1. By the end of the week we should have enough dirt to bury McCain's soul mate.

[Cha]

2. Yeah, Inquiring minds want to know which "language" miss

lieability wanted removed from Wasillans' eyes.

[gemlake]

3. This is big--it shows that she's not only incompetent

but an extremist.

[eleny]

6. "extremist" - an important word we should be using a lot these days

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[grasswire]

4. librarian is Mary Ellen Emmons

According to the story linked on Sullivan's page.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Do the archives of the local newspaper have any stories on this?

[EndElectoral]

7. kick..we need to know the books

[MelissaB]

8. Agree. I'd love to see that list. n/t

[npincus]

9. surely there was one.

Curious if she wanted to purge a particular topic, a particular author(s), or particular titles.

[Ian_rd]

10. Jesus! ANOTHER scandal? I'm beginning to think McCain's vetters are DNC agents ...

... because they seem to have found the absolute worst running mate. I don't know if McCain could've done worse choosing Larry Craig.

[MelissaB]

11. Library info here:

907-376-5913

http://www.cityofwasilla.com/index.aspx?page=72

Should we call?

[Sequoia]

12. This reminds me of the movie: "Storm Center" (I haven't seen it)

Hard to find for one thing, but low and behold it's featured in the NY Times today.

IN their film called "Storm Center," Julian Blaustein and Daniel Taradash have tackled a theme that is drawn from the coals of smoldering conflict and political passion in American life today. That is the theme of freedom to circulate ideas and the damage that can be done to an individual and to a community when this freedom is abridged.

The issue presented in this picture, which came to the Normandie on Saturday, is that of a woman librarian who refuses to remove a book called "The Communist Dream" from her public library when the city council tells her to. As a consequence of her refusal, one of the councilmen implies she is a "Red," which leads to her discharge as librarian and her belittlement in the community. From all that is evident in the picture, the lady is innocent of the charge.

Stated thus bluntly, the issue appears undeniably stacked, and no one, outside a rabid scare-head, is likely to say the lady has not been cruelly used. The villainy of the councilman, thus put forth, is as plain as if he stroked a black mustache.

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http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E07E7D7143BE13BBC4A51DFB667838D649EDE

http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/290/334/76/STORM_CENTER,_BETTE_DAVIS_MMS.jpg

STORM CENTER is about politics and censorship. Davis is a librarian, and is only concerned in running her town library as well as possible, and in encouraging literacy among the children of the town. One of the children is played by Kevin Coughlin, a wonderful child actor who would grow into a capable actor before being killed in a traffic accident when only 30 years old. Kevin is bookish - too bookish according to his "know nothing" blue-collar father (Joe Mantell). There is a struggle or tug of war between Mantell, wanting his son to be more like a typical boy (i.e. a sports oriented kid) and Davis, who wants Kevin's mind to grow.

Adding to her problems is that a book in the library that Davis has put out is controversial. A number of citizens would like it removed. Brian Keith, a new member of the city council, decides to take this up as a political issue (for his own advantage, of course). Soon, all sorts of pressures are put on Davis to get rid of the nasty book, and she refuses to do so. The pressures turn nastier and nastier. Despite the support of an old friend (Paul Kelly), Davis faces dismissal. In the meantime Kevin has been affected by the near hysteria sweeping through the town. His father is pretty happy about that - maybe his son will become normal. The father lets Kevin know that the problem is the library itself. So Kevin, in his own hysterical state, sets fire to the town's library.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049800/usercomments

This movie was filmed in Santa Rosa, CA. Library that burned down was also featured in Alfred Hitchock's: "Shadow of a Doubt". (His personal favorite.)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. No specific book; Palin had a "rhetorical" chat; like Sluggo asking about fire insurance.

The librarian says there was no specific book mentioned. Palin says she had a "rhetorical" chat with the librarian, who reports that she became very uncomfortable.

It is like Sluggo asking a "rhetorical" question about fire insurance.

[tyedyeto]

14. K & R

[mhatrw]

15. K&R. n/t

[liberalla]

16. Kick!

[truthisfreedom]

17. Sarah "Farenheit 451" Palin!

Sarah the Censor.

[anigbrowl]

18. No need to find the librarian

Check the Wasilla 'city' council meeting minutes...though don't be surprised if some of them just happen to be missing. I'm guessing the first few months of her first term.

[Monk06]

19. I read on another thread that Mary Emmons has left town and refuses to talk to media.

[bushmeister0]

20. Jesus, what a mess.

Might force the fascists to move their plans ahead by a few months.

Reichstag fire, enabling legislation, anyone?

Ask Amy Goodwin.