This seems almost too stupid to be true. I call Shenanigans.

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Brian lives in Los Angeles where he sort of writes sort of children's television. He is currently OT IV and 276 experience points away from OT V!

Shenanigans indeed.

Double Shenanigans for Scientology.

The real story is here, and it has a link at the bottom to the 'real' list, but it's from an unverifiable source, so I say shenanigans are still in effect. It wouldn't surprise me, however, if it were true.

This submission is a dumb blogjoke that I personally would have rejected.

The 'real' banned books list, as far as I know, doesn't exist. The one worthwhile reference I've seen to the real banned book list was on dailykos.com and the article mentioned the list in passing but pointed out that it had no attribution and seemed hoaxy and thus didn't bother reprinting it.

Evidently there was a discussion concerning whether the librarian would be willing to ban books -- she wasn't. Later she was accused by Palin of being insufficiently supportive of her mayor. Presumably the two are linked.

According to the Frontiersman newspaper, Wasilla’s library director, Mary Ellen Emmons, said that Palin asked her outright if she 'could live with censorship of library books.” Palin later dismissed the conversation as a “rhetorical” exercise.

I find it very credible that someone who prays for gas pipelines, preaches abstinence-only, and advocates creationism in science class would also consider censoring books. I see no reason to hope that an actual list exists, though.

TCiC

yeah, not the real list (I doubt there is a list, but don't doubt she would have put one together if the librarian had reacted positively to the idea) - just playing off her many scandals and nutjob beliefs to imagine what she would like banned

yee haw! Ahm gwon git 4 brazilian dollars to fund INTERELLIGENT DESAHN when I'm Pres..er, Vice Presidaint.

I'll buy that for a dollar!

Too bad she lost her head (well, got it smooshed like a grape, anyway).

I dunno, I've just noticed that there's something very goofy about her upper lip in a lot of pictures, including the one above. It's as though someone taught a robot to smile and requirement #1 was 'Upper lip must maintain 5-cm teeth clearance at all times, both upward and outward, like a horse might do'.