Dave Barry

Skimming the titles, I don't see anything that isn't already out there, and little not already on her Wikipedia page.

I'd wish I'd did a little research to see who owned them. This kind of explains everything, huh?

They did run this cartoon:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/215/gallery/4...

So what's the theory here about McClatchy?

to the:
http://www.correntewire.com/palin_says_n...

post?

I'm not sure but I don't think this one is in there.

Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so.

It also mentions the woman whose email to friends about Palin has been making the rounds, Anne Kilkenny.

Like many Alaskans, Kilkenny calls the governor by her first name.

"Sarah said to Mary Ellen, 'What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?" Kilkenny said.

"I was shocked. Mary Ellen sat up straight and said something along the line of, 'The books in the Wasilla Library collection were selected on the basis of national selection criteria for libraries of this size, and I would absolutely resist all efforts to ban books.'"

Palin didn't mention specific books at that meeting, Kilkenny said.

Palin herself, questioned at the time, called her inquiries rhetorical and simply part of a policy discussion with a department head "about understanding and following administration agendas," according to the Frontiersman article.

The Daily Journal of Kankakee talked to Kilkenny:

So, we checked it out. Kilkenny does exist, and she does live in Alaska. We reached her by phone and asked if she wrote the rather long note that calls Palin "smart" but also questions her abilities.

We asked Kilkenny, "Did you write that letter?" She replied skeptically, "Well, I don't know. Read me parts of it. I'll tell you if it's mine or not."

After we read it to her, she said, "Yes, I wrote that." She sent it out to 40 people, brothers, sisters and friends, on Sunday -- two days after U.S. Sen. John McCain announced Palin as his choice.

CNN has more here:

Though many favored her no-nonsense attitude and open door policy, Wasilla substitute teacher Anne Kilkenny compared the atmosphere surrounding Palin to a popularity contest.

"I found the informal manner in which she ran City Council meetings had the flavor of turning city business into a fan club," said Kilkenny, a registered Democrat who moved to Wasilla from Seattle, Washington, in 1981.

This weekend, Kilkenny, one of the few identifiable Palin critics in Wasilla, wrote an e-mail to friends criticizing Palin's track record that rapidly spread to blogs and Web sites.

"Everybody likes her because she's a real nice person. She's always been nice to me and everyone in town," Kilkenny told CNN.com. "I wrote my message in the spirit of providing complete and accurate information. I'm not angry or jealous."

UPDATE:

NPR did an interview with Kilkenny here

removed from the library, even after the librarian in question resigned. The City of Wasilla keeps records.

Also, Kilkenny's letter, except for where she's talking about events that can be independently verified through public documents, sounds like she really, really doesn't like Sarah Palin, and not quite so much like the brave crusader who spoke out just because she's a person who "looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable."

She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because she is a "babe".

[Palin? Or the plot from Mean Girls?]

It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret.

She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help.

...Senator Ted Stevens. lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel politics and publicly humiliated him.

They call her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made point guard on the high school basketball team.

[predatory ruthlessness as a point guard?]

Read the the whole letter and judge for yourself.

As someone who grew up in a small town, I can tell you politics become quite personal and vicious. I'm a little wary of someone who paints themselves as just a concerned citizen and the other person as evil incarnate. Not that evil incarnate doesn't exist, or that Palin couldn't be it, but considering the feelings of the source here, I'm a bit skeptical.

no formal request was made, pls see the link in my comment upthread (to records of the City of Wasilla, which records requests for removing books from their library.)

That's the only documentary evidence on the matter, as far as I can tell.

The statement that Palin asked a generic question about removing books comes from the Librarian who supported her opponent in her mayoral race, and whom Palin tried to get rid of, and Kilkenny, who was part of the campaign fighting the librarian friend's dismissal.

The librarian quit right before Palin started her second term. No requests to remove books by Palin were made of her replacement (who, I'm assuming, was appointed by Palin, although there's no evidence, even hearsay, to support that).

Story here.

Also from the article:

Were any books censored banned? June Pinell-Stephens, chairwoman of the Alaska Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee since 1984, checked her files Wednesday and came up empty-handed.

Pinell-Stephens also had no record of any phone conversations with Emmons about the issue back then. Emmons was president of the Alaska Library Association at the time.

Palin admitted to making 'rhetorical inquiries" about removing books.

My totally unsubstantiatable theory is that Palin cared less about censoring books than finding grounds to dismiss a political opponent's loyalist. Even Emmons (the librarian) says Palin asked "What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?"

But political squabbles between opponents don't have nearly the dogwhistle value of being able to say Palin's for censorship.

She clearly states and aspiration. She does not make a affirmation that the troops are on a mission from God, she aspirationally hopes that the troops are on a mission from God.

That said, the bigger killer in that same clip, I believe, is that she does say that God wants the pipeline between Alaska and the Lower 48 completed, if I remember correctly.

it's not like they have a diversified economy like other big states.

Resources under the ground and melting ice and some timber and wildlife are pretty much all they have.

There is a list circulating, but it has been largely debunked, according to this site (see #41-43), which purports to separate facts from rumor on Palin.

Some of the items on the overall site are sourced, some not, but seems fairly good overall to me. It's funny, at least, which means nothing as to credibility but means something as to enjoyability. Worth a read.

Following links back further than I really have time to, it seems the original list now circulating was a long list thrown out by a random commenter, sans sourcing, on librarian.net.

It contains several books published after Palin was mayor, and the good folks on librarian.net traced it back not to Palin, but to a list of books commonly banned in the U.S., put out by publishers Adler and Robin. To the credit of commenters on librarian.net, the list was pretty thoroughly denounced/debunked in further comments -- very worried about censorship (of course) but not blinded by rage into advancing falsehoods, or even skimpily sourced materials. Yaay librarians!

Anymore than I believe that GM turning out SUV's in my homestate is a "good thing" just because it keeps jobs. I can't believe some are just letting her off the hook. It's more pathological rationalization. She said the crazy thing in church so it must be all right, huh? No.

It's one thing to aspire to understand your god's goal on earth. It's another to speak on it authoritatively like she did on the pipeline. I'll give her the break on the first one about the war, but the pipeline is inexcusable. I would think that a progressive board like this wouldn't excuse someone telling us with authority what her god thinks on a political issue such as the pipeline.