Friday, September 12, 2008

More Fact Checking

I love those folks at FactCheck.org. They've recently offered some analysis of the e-mails and such regarding Sarah Palin. I'm happy to hear that, according to FactCheck, Palin did not attempt to ban books at the Wasilla Library:

One accusation claims then-Mayor Palin threatened to fire Wasilla’s librarian for refusing to ban books from the town library. Some versions of the rumor come complete with a list of the books that Palin allegedly attempted to ban. Actually, Palin 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. The librarian was fired, but was told only that Palin felt she didn’t support her. She was re-hired the next day. The librarian never claimed that Palin threatened outright to fire her for refusing to ban books.


See the full article, with info on Special Needs funding, Creationism, and the Alaska secessionist movement here.

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