View Full Version : Sarah Palin's halo a bit rusty?
rockchick
21-Sep-08, 11:00
Anne Kilkenny, an Alaskan resident who grew up with Sarah Palin, wrote an email which points out a few flaws in the VP candidate's history.
btw, Snopes.com and Urbanlegends.com have confirmed that Anne Kilkenny does in fact exist and did write the letter, but the facts alluded to have not yet been confirmed (or denied!) except that she in fact did have the local librarian fired...whether or not it was because the librarian refused to have certain books banned is not certain, but it is confirmed that the librarian was asked whether she would support the removal of some books from the library's collection.
It can be seen at http://www.thepresidentialcandidates.us/about-sarah-palin-a-letter-from-anne-kilkenny/741/ (http://www.thepresidentialcandidates.us/about-sarah-palin-a-letter-from-anne-kilkenny/741/)
I just can't believe she tried to ban James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl at her local library. Why??? And she wants to be Vice President of the USA?
This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and
Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin
Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The ##################### by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles
Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the
Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the
Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
I just can't believe she tried to ban James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl at her local library. Why??? And she wants to be Vice President of the USA?
It will be interesting to see how the Americans vote. If they vote republican she could be the next president!:eek:
scottygirl
21-Sep-08, 14:30
Was over in the states recently and they do seem to like this woman, goodness only knows why!!! She is untested and is really quite a scary option for the second in command!
Her abortion policy is a perfect example! She does not believe in it. Full Stop. That must be why her 17 year old daughter is pregnant to the local hick then!!!
Considering the mess the financial markets are in at present, it's a scary thought that she could soon be involved in it and she wasn't successful at running a small administration-I don't have much faith in her running a large one.
Margaret M.
21-Sep-08, 14:45
Was over in the states recently and they do seem to like this woman,
Not all of us, and let's hope that there is enough of us to ensure that she gets nowhere near the White House. Scary indeed.
northener
21-Sep-08, 14:47
Hmmm...the list seems to dispose of anything that could contain anything 'Anti-Christian' or looks to support anything that is not part of the Great American Way. Literary McCarthyism?
Looks like a great future for American minority religions and free-thinkers.....
Hmmm...the list seems to dispose of anything that could contain anything 'Anti-Christian' or looks to support anything that is not part of the Great American Way. Literary McCarthyism?
Looks like a great future for American minority religions and free-thinkers.....
Maybe, but I thought 'Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain' was a cornerstone of American literature?
Not all of us, and let's hope that there is enough of us to ensure that she gets nowhere near the White House. Scary indeed.
can she be any worse than George Bush. It is obvious she can actually read with the list of books she tried to ban. Can the same skill be attributed to Mr Bush?
Maybe, but I thought 'Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain' was a cornerstone of American literature?
That's especially puzzling- Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were set texts way back when I was at primary school.:confused
Some of the others were set texts when I was at secondary -and some pretty dull as I recall, but there are books on that list that if I'd not read -well, I just wouldn't be the person I am now...
Is there a new all American pursuit appearing on the horizon - the burning of the books? :eek:
My friend flicka is on the list!! ISnt that a story about a young girl and a horse? What is so bad about that? This from someoen who states "we may have to go to war with Russia", bush cant read but I'd hate her finger to be on the button!!!
She is a bit of an enigma, she looks like the schoolteacher that you secretly had a crush on at school but knew it was so wrong, hope the Americans dont vote for her because they feel that way too!!!
Melancholy Man
21-Sep-08, 15:49
<leans over to whisper sweet nothings in Joxie's ear>
<gets stubble-burn from Hotrod>
<just had a shave so dont know where MM is getting his stubble rash from> ;)
plasticjock
21-Sep-08, 16:10
<just had a shave so dont know where MM is getting his stubble rash from> ;)
Ummm....hyena bristle?
plasticjock
21-Sep-08, 16:17
I just can't believe she tried to ban James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl at her local library. Why??? And she wants to be Vice President of the USA?
Don't think she's read many of them but..the list is quite a good one for recommendations. Full of great reading...with a few personal exceptions. But I doubt many people know about most of them unless they've been the subject of edited blockbuster films or saturday morning kid's cartoons.
As for Sarah Palin and her 'moral guardianship' stance (and she's not alone):
To quote Tony Hancock and a library book he'd been reading, Lady Don't Fall Backwards by Johnny Oxford,
"This is red hot this is, mate. Hate to think of a book like this getting in the wrong hands. Soon as I've finished this I shall recommend they ban it."
sassylass
21-Sep-08, 18:09
The thought of her in office is, in a word, terrifying.
Shabbychic
24-Sep-08, 12:18
I am in no way a Republican or Sarah Palin fan, but there is quite a bit of propaganda going on here.
The woman Anne Kilkenny is indeed an Alaskan resident, she is also an ardent Democrat and Obama supporter. None of what she states has been verified, and the sites that are promoting this letter are all Democrat sites.
Regarding the banned book list, you will find it here (http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html), and it has nothing to do with Sarah Palin.
She also has an over 80% approval rate in Alaska, so I don't think she failed in running her Administration either.
There are many things I disagree with regarding Sarah Palin, but I prefer to deal in truths and not propaganda.
Margaret M.
24-Sep-08, 14:45
The woman Anne Kilkenny is indeed an Alaskan resident, she is also an ardent Democrat and Obama supporter. None of what she states has been verified, and the sites that are promoting this letter are all Democrat sites.
Regarding the banned book list, you will find it here (http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html), and it has nothing to do with Sarah Palin.
Shabbychic, I agree with your point about the propoganda, I get so tired of emails being circulated that folks never check out before they forward on. Nine times out of ten, they are a bunch of rubbish. Unfortunately, those emails may be all the "research" that some voters do.
Of course the Republican sites are not going to promote Kilkenny's email. The best they can come up with is that Anne is obviously jealous of Sarah's success and good looks. :roll: Anne Kilkenny has been grilled by conservative talk show hosts but I have not heard anyone refute the points she makes in her email.
At the time Palin asked about banning books from the library, the Potter books included in the above list were not published yet. I don't think she specified which books she had in mind.
I like Saturday Night Live's version at http://www.funnyordie.com/blog/posts/3338
Though I don't suppose I shall be laughing if Mrs Palin gets the nuclear codes.
At the time Palin asked about banning books from the library, the Potter books included in the above list were not published yet. I don't think she specified which books she had in mind.
Other than books that contravene local obscenity laws does it really matter what books she had in mind?:confused
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