Sarah Palin
I have to share this clip from the daily show.
Since I subscribe to digg.com’s popular stories rss feed, I’ve been bombarded by anti-palin articles. It’s relentless. Most arguments are ridiculous, as that daily show clip points out. They attack someone with X and when their own candidate gets attacked for X they defend with Y. But Y is not a valid defense against their attack of X to the other candidate.
So either they’re idiots who don’t realize they’re being massively stupid, one part of their brain refuses to communicate with another part of their brain. Or, they’re evil and they’re hoping that most of their audience are idiots and don’t recognize their double standards.
I’m guessing it’s the evil one.
But of all the articles trashing Palin… one stuck. From time.com. In it we learn that Palin attempted to ban books from the public library. There aren’t many details there… but even having the smallest connection with an utter failure in an attempt to ban even one book… She should not be in politics.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:36 am
An ABC News piece titled “Did Sarah Palin Try to Ban Library Books?: Alaska Librarian Can’t Recall Palin Asking to Ban Books,” reported earlier this month:
The librarian at the center of a 1996 controversy with then-Wasilla mayor Sarah Palin says she can’t recall any effort by Palin to ban specific books from the town library.
In her first public statement since Palin was named the GOP vice-presidential candidate, Mary Ellen Baker said today, “I simply do not recall a conversation with specific titles,” Baker told ABCNews.com.
Palin has acknowledged she twice raised the issue in 1996 of how books could be removed from the shelves, but said it was only a “rhetorical question” and that she did not ask for any books to be banned.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:36 am
oops forgot this
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/michael-m-bates/2008/09/28/detroit-free-press-which-books-would-palin-want-ban
September 29th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Seriously? A rhetorical question?
No, she asked because she wanted to remove books. Sure, she never gave a list of specific books she wanted to remove. But she asked because she WANTS to remove books.
I see no other likely motive. The only other motive even possible is that she was trying to trick the library in to agreeing with her to remove books and then shouting “HA! Got you! You’re a bunch of book banners! I’m outing you!”…
Anyway, she has proven more concretely in various interviews that she’s even less competent to be the Vice President since I wrote this.