A list of books then-mayor Sarah Palin allegedly was targeting to ban from the Wasilla public library is getting wide circ on the net. Shakey's on there–Merchant of Venice. So's Mark Twain. The LATimes is not going with the list because it says it can't confirm it. I'm with the Times; let's get the hard facts. Can't wait!
But a more important list than that is: What books has Sarah Palin ever read? Can someone supply? She strikes me as being the least literate person ever to threaten to darken the White House towels. (Yes: I read that in Marx, Groucho Marx).
Huh. The list includes Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." That's the book Bill gave to Monica, after their encounters in the executive washroom started.
I seem to recall giving "Leaves of Grass" — or at least an excerpt from it — to a girl named Debbie at college. It didn't produce the desired erotic result, though. Maybe I shoulda tried another one from Sarah's list — "My Friend Flicka." You know, engage her "riding naked on a horse in the moonlight" fantasy.
"She strikes me as being the least literate person ever to threaten to darken the White House towels." Even allowing for literary license, that's an extravagantly hyperbolic assertion. G. W. Bush, introducing one of his professors at dinner, said, "He wrote a book at Yale. I read one." And even "one" sounds a little on the high side …
There is a Jewish academic cottage industry that specializes in depicting Shakespeare as anti-Semitic because of the Shylock. See Palin versus Merchant of Venice
"Leaves of Grass"
always reminds me of the lady on the window longingly looking down at the boys bathing in the river. Or was it the beach?
Maybe you were bit too direct? But good taste Jim alone should have been rewarded.
The list is of course ludicrous on first sight. Canterbury Tales, Decamerone. Is a new Bowdlerizing era in sight? No sex, we are Americans?
Butyes, it would be interesting to see the list.
Joachim, the Nazis loved the Merchant of Venice, as you may realize.
I think this is a list of books that have been banned in the US at some time or another.
link to adlerbooks.com
Check Snopes – not Palin's list:
link to snopes.com
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If some Jews could misread The Merchant of Venice, obviously some Germans could as well.
Many Arabs believe that You Don't Mess with the Zohan is some sort of psycho-Zionist propaganda, but I dispute this belief.
The changing German Nazi view of Wagner was quite interesting. Even though the German Nazis rarely disagreed with Nordau's ideas about Entartung, initially they rejected his view that Wagner was decadent and only gradually came to agree with the arch-Zionist ideologue as they lost most of their interest in Wagner's music.
This was a hoax. It was even on CNN. But then again this blog has never exactly been a paragon of accuracy.
Here's a photo of McHeinous & Sarah (which I found on Drudge) that graphically illustrates what a hot MILF she is. No wonder Phil's hyperventilating:
http://tinyurl.com/5acret
Are those four-inch heels, or do I just suffer from a foot fetish?
'Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd's daughter,
My wit untrain'd in any kind of art.
Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased
To shine on my contemptible estate:
Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs,
And to sun's parching heat display'd my cheeks,
God's mother deigned to appear to me
And in a vision full of majesty
Will'd me to leave my base vocation
And free my country from calamity'
Joan La Pucelle, Henry 6, Pt 1
It's feels I should add a my absolutely unimportant experience with used books from US public libraries. I think Oarwell mentioned an Orwell text and quite possibly in this contextWilliam Lutz' New Doublespeak
Since the book wasn't available anymore I ordered a used copy. And received a copy from: Tuscon Pima Public Library, Main.
I was a bit surprised. So I checked. Was there an updated version of the book? And no. Only a paperback version from the next year.
So this is a bigger question. Can politicians influence what books are sorted out in the US, is there a discussion in the GOP concerning the topic. I wouldn't be surprised, I consider Palin a loyal soldier.
Amazon Germany: William Lutz
The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore
I just realized that this may actually be stolen and I should return it to them:
still in the online catalogue
Haygood, maybe I've been reading Bagnews too much of late,
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/
(and btw, check out the second picture down, the way Xena is holding that pen, and that lascivious smile on her shameless face! Wow!)
but that photo you referenced is brilliant. The chaste space between Major Kong and Xena's nether parts, the drooping flag (suggesting that neither Kong nor his America can any long grow wood)… just splendid.
Also, I was disappointed that there's no James Joyce on the list. I guess Xena sees nothing wrong with the cold kidlets warming themselves with Ulysses' lubricious pornography. Why, the Nausicaa section alone, with cuckolded Bloom driven to seashore onanism by Gerty MacDowell's gams, not to mention those Roman candles! Plus, it's not just filthy-minded, it's just plain hard to read, not at all like watching Scrubs, where the sex jokes are delivered full-blown (sorry) from the head (sorry) of Dr. "Cox" (sorry). What ever happened to double entendre? Too French? And why hasn't Xena banned Henry Miller? Or Seutonius? I say ban libraries altogether if Xena's going to permit this stuff to infect the minds of Willow and Tracker.
According to Newsweek, it's myth that Palin asked anyone to ban any books.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986
"Palin," says Newsweek, apparently quoting an article on "Sliming Plain" from factcheck.org, "never asked that books be banned; no books were actually banned; and many of the books on the list that Palin supposedly wanted to censor weren't even in print at the time, proving that the list is a fabrication. . .
"So what about that list of books targeted for banning, which according to one widely e-mailed version was taken "from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board"? If it was, the library board should take up fortune telling. The list includes the first four Harry Potter books,
none of which had been published at the time of the Palin-Emmons conversations. The first wasn't published until 1998. In fact, the list is a simple cut-and-paste job, snatched (complete with typos and the occasional incorrect title) from the Florida Institute of Technology
library Web page, which presents the list as "Books banned at one time or another in the United States.""
Hey, Duscany, we were just having some fun. Like this, the "real" Sarah Palin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thYDuJXZLUU
Well, I too would like to know what books she has read. After seeing her interview with ABC I am pretty sure she has never read the Sermon on the Mount.