Another Obama/Media Lie Shot Down!

I wrote the article you linked to that called out Sarah Palin for making "rhetorical inquiries" about banning books, as revealed by the ABC News video I included in my post. You need to be more careful when you fly off the handle with a post like this and accuse someone like me of lying. If you actually read my article, you will note that I (and ABC News) NEVER accused Sarah Palin of ACTUALLY banning any books. As you can see with your own eyes from what I wrote and from the ABC News video I posted, Sarah Palin repeatedly asked Wasilla's librarian how the librarian would REACT to the idea of banning books. When Sarah Palin didn't get the answer she wanted (the librarian said would refuse to ban books if asked), she FIRED THE LIBRARIAN a month or so later. You do yourself and your friends here a disservice by distorting my writing (and the reporting of ABC News) in order to post a breathless attack on the supposed lies of Obama supporters. Some people out there are indeed under the misapprehension that Sarah Palin ACTUALLY banned books, but I (and ABC News) are not among that set. I hope you will update your original discussion post with a correction and an apology. KCG

Ok, now anyone want the facts? The list, of course, is an exaggeration but Palin did ask the librarian about the porcedure for banning books that did not adhere to her religious beliefs. The librarian, who has responded to a CNN inquiry into the incident, said that she told Palin that she would not cooperate with any attempt to remove books from the shelves of the library. In response, Palin attempted to fire her for not cooperationg. It was only in response to community outrage that Mary Ellen Emmons kept her job. I see no reason for the Anchorage Daily News to have made up the following news accounts: [b]From the January 31, 1997 edition of Anchorage Daily News: Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin fired the city's police chief and the library director without warning Thursday, accusing them of not fully supporting her efforts to govern. Irl Stambaugh and Mary Ellen Emmons said letters signed by Palin were dropped on their desks Thursday afternoon telling them their jobs were over as of Feb. 13 and that they no longer needed to report to work. Emmons has been the city's library director for seven years. Stambaugh has headed the police department since it was created in 1993. Before that, he served 22 years with the Anchorage Police Department rising to the rank of captain before retiring. [/b] Community anger over Palin's attempt to fire the librarian was apparently intense, forcing Palin to reverse her decision: [b]From the The Anchorage Daily News on February 1, 1997: City librarian Mary Ellen Emmons will stay, but Police Chief Irl Stambaugh is on his own, Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin announced Friday. The decision came one day after letters signed by Palin were dropped on Stambaugh's and Emmon's desks, telling them their jobs were over as of Feb. 13.[/b] Check out the Anchorage Daily News website yourselves if you still don't believe.

I read that list and I cant beleive anyone would ban these books alot are classics! Grapes of Wrath. Little red riding hoood. My friend Flica just to name a few. and how can one banned a book that hadnt been writting at that time!? Like Harry POtter books! This is down right childess on the part od Obama!

Honestly, I hate to say it but this sort of thing has become politics as usual. Each campaign season it gets worse. The really pathetic part during this election year, is the fact that Obama especially, and here lately McCain too, both preach change. How can it possibly be change in politics, Washington, or failed policies when they continue to play the same childish games during the campaign season. If they are not tearing into each other and making false accusations, they are telling the voters what ever will gain them votes and then changing their stories as necessary! When will politicians realize that this is exactly the sort of games that has gotten our great nation where it is today, and in such serious need of help and change - true change - not campaign rhetoric!!!!

and when are mccain supporters going to realize that when the debates start everyone is going to see right through mccain. he and palin are playing the victim. give me one good reason i should vote for mccain. and i don't want somthing stupid. i mean pick an issue like tax reform, education, immigration and tell me what mccain can do that is soooo great.

I wrote the article you linked to that called out Sarah Palin for making "rhetorical inquiries" about banning books. You need to be more careful when you fly off the handle with a post like yours and accuse someone of lying. If you read my article again, you will note that I (and ABC News) NEVER accused Sarah Palin of ACTUALLY banning any books. As you can see with your own eyes in the ABC News expose video in my blog post, Sarah Palin asked Wasilla's librarian several times how she would REACT to the idea of banning books. You do yourself a disservice by distorting my writing in order to post a breathless attack against Obama supporters. Some people out there are indeed under the misapprehension that Sarah Palin actually banned books but I (and ABC News) are not among that set. I hope you will update your original discussion item with a correction and an apology.

So who do you vote for anyhow? I guess there is a lot of people who are going to stay home this election. Sometimes I wish that the presidents would be allowed to stay for three terms. I think Obama is dangerous and McCain should have stuck up for traditional rights so he would not have Sarah Palin stand up for him. So it seems that both parties are wrong. I guess it is a case of not reading it through and only jumping to your own conclusions. Inquiring about the policy of banning books does not mean you want the library to ban books, it is just you want to know how it is done. Mind you I would have those books that are dangerous kept in the adult section and not in the elementary school section of the library.

The only thing I have to say is we might as well get used to this slander and name calling, there is another two months to the election. This adult cat fighting is one of the reasons I hate politics....and the worst part is one of these childish cat fighters is going to lead our country! Pretty sad if you ask me.

WHITEHEATHER, you made a biggoted racial slur in this thread, if your thread is gone it is because I reported you. That was uncalled for and what it reflects is a trait that you should be ashamed of and elminiates any respect for your opinon here what-so-ever. You owe the person an apology and need to learn a lesson from this. I am spitting angry but I am not the kind of person that will respond in kind by calling YOU names.

What makes you think that ANYTHING, negative said about McCain and Palin, unless you hear it out of their mouths, comes from Obama or his camp? Have you heard of the MEDIA? Everything comes from the media. kennyrose said that "130 attorneys were sent from OBAMA to Alaska to dig dirt on Palin", kennyrose knows everything PFFFFT. I think the real count was 30 and don't you think that there is someone in the FBI that needed to check out miss no-name/know nothing? Would it have to have been someone from the Obama camp? I am sure all the Republicans cannot fathom that it would be possible that anyone one else would have the need to check out the potential Vice President of the country other than Obama. Obama is criticized for running such a polite campaign, isn't that strange that you think he is being a bully. It is the Republican's are running gutter politics as ususal. He is on target with the issues. It is McCain who said "this is a campaign on personalities, not on issues". That is because he has no issues, it is business or BUSHNESS, AS USUAL for McCain, he has nothing to say, because he will have nothing to do but rubber stamp what Bush has done, four more years of Bush, is what you will get. WE cannot tolerate four more years of Bush. Have you seen the tape of Palin asking "what is the daily responsibility of the Vice President?" How charming that she admits not having a clue. How about the one where she says "the war in Iraq is God's Will?" I have always said that Bush thinks he is God, however, he is not. Evidently Palin thinks he is too. The war was strictly Bush's will, wrong people for the wrong war, the Arabs hit the twin towers in NY so he started a war in Iraq. Make sense? Probably to some of you it does. I just saw a tape where people were asked basic questions and could not answer them. "Where did Kentucky Fried Chicken originate?" "what is the religion in Israel?"... no one knew or thought of the name of Kentucky, or the religion practiced in Israel. They thought that Mississippi was a country. It was horrific to see how stupid people are in this country. But now I understand why people are voting for McCain and Palin. Something I never understood before I saw that tape.

White, the McCain/Palin camp put Sarah on stage and lied to the American people, and they have never adimited it. She supported the bridge to nowhere, and took the money, and when congress attacked it, she never sent the money back to Washington. If she was so against this project (which the facts do not support) then why didn't she just write a check back to Washington for all of the money they received. Sarah Palin says that she is against earmarks, yet she has a long history of asking for earmarks, and spending them. She hated earmarks so much that she hired a lobbist as mayor, and received $24 million in earmarks while mayor. Last year under the Great reformer, Palin asked for and received $550 million in earmarks (What a great reformer she is), and this year she cut her spending back some, only asking for $200 million in earmarks (but she did ask for $150,000 in travel for her friends in the fishing industry, I bet that jet could have saved them money there) . The McCain/Palin camp has known this is a lie since she said it, and has never come out and said differently, so why do they keep on lying?

Palin asked if a book could be taken out of the library and when she was met with opposition she chose to fire the librarian which later reinstated because of public outrage.

Okay so you shot down an Obama media lie! congrats! i think its good that you did your own fact checking or whatever you did to make sure he and his camp were telling the truth. you can ask anyone that knows me i dont care where the statement comes from i want to know the truth. even if it is a picture i do not believe it until i have researched it myself. I will say this if you are shooting down Obama's lies then start doing it to McCain. do you have to talk about the jet he said sarah palin sold on ebay and made a profit on? fact check that one!