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From the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News:  Palin pressured Wasilla librarian
“WASILLA — 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.
“According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired. The censorship issue was not mentioned as a reason for the firing. The letter just said the new mayor felt Emmons didn’t fully support her and had to go. Emmons had been city librarian for seven years and was well liked. After a wave of public support for her, Palin relented and let Emmons keep her job.”
Meanwhile, pundits such as Lindsay Lohan have decried the media circus over the pregnancy of Palin’s teenage daughter Bristol. Leave her alone, they say. That would be the charitable thing to do, but this is an election season and Palin is the VP candidate of the Republican Party that polices Family Values. If you talk the talk, and you walk another way, that’s Hypocrisy, and that makes you fair game for the raptors of the media.Â
A reader wondered whether Sarah Palin was related to Monty Python’s Michael Palin, adding that Michael is the more qualified one (except for his being a British comedian and writer). I’m sure that Michael Palin (Everyone: “I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay…”), who has circled the globe many times to do his documentaries, would be far better informed on foreign relations. Fox News quipped—or maybe they meant it seriously, I can never tell when they’re joking—that Sarah Palin knows international relations because she is up there in Alaska right next door to Russia. Jon Stewart added that Alaska is also next to the North Pole so obviously she must also be friends with Santa. (We love you, Jon, and even more so in an election year.) In a demented world, the comics are the vanguard of sanity. Â
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September 6th, 2008 at 19:12
“…I sleep all night and I work all day”…wuhuuu, Michael Palin for (Vice) President!
September 7th, 2008 at 09:35
Palin gets the job. Her hubby gets the blowjob from one of her Monica Lewinskys. How would she react?
September 7th, 2008 at 11:30
Let me assure you, that was not a quip from Fox – they are seriously touting that fact as proof of her foreign policy experience here. But can you imagine Palin standing up to Putin? He will chew her.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:53
Sarah Palin, in one angle looks like Paula Abdul and in another, like Wonder Woman. And yet another, like Iza Calzado with touches of the mestiza. Gov. Palin is new in the scene. This what makes her “interesting”. She’s actually not a bad choice.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:58
I saw her cover stories in Newsweek and Time. Notice the dead animals around her – a stuffed bear here, a bleeding deer there. Sure, she’s from a hunting state, and we get that she wants to look like a strong woman, but that’s just out of touch.
What? Where are they, the middle ages? No to censorship! No to Sarah Palin!
September 9th, 2008 at 10:46
So she was a school secretary and a science teacher. Interesting that Palin should fit my profile of typical bureaucrat whose victims include a librarian. I have stories of Philippine education bureaucrats whose views on libraries and librarians and their works are not only ignorant but moronic. Most of them get where they are not because of outstanding talent or awesome intellect but because of their unlimited capacity to suck ass.
She may look pretty but like Bush strong character is not discernible on her face.
September 9th, 2008 at 14:56
Here’s hoping that the librarians who started a campaign against censorship to help Michael Moore in his fight for the release of his book Stupid White Men would once again unite and campaign against Palin.
There’s a satire about Palin in mcsweeneys.
September 10th, 2008 at 09:39
I think it was Colbert who said that Palin is also “well-versed” when it comes to the space program because Mt. Mckinley, the highest peak in North America, is in Alaska…
September 14th, 2008 at 09:44
I know you’re sick of it now, but somebody made a YouTube video recently:
Michael Palin for President
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf1y9s73Nos