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It is amusing to see the frustrated and wheel-spinning angst being expressed by the mainstream liberal media over Senator McCain's selection of Governor Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate. 

The pro-choice activists, both the male and female homosexuals,  and sympathizers for all of the above in the mainstream press unsurprisingly, hate the new conservative female vice presidential candidate.

They hate her for the strong foundation of Christian values she believes to inform and guide her family life as well as her policy perspectives. 

That she is great looking, a crowd pleaser with wit and charm, while being as articulate as a conservative as Hillary Clinton is a liberal, drives those people up the wall.  The frenzy is just another reminder of how petty and juvenile those people can be. 
In addition to the typically bitter communications warfare of a political campaign, from experience we know many of those types of people are just like that in real life.

I was curious about the book banning issue when I saw a headline in a local newspaper not long after Governor Palin's successful convention speech that read: "Palin banned library books."

To clarify from the start, there was never any book banning.  There were administrative discussions related to book banning, but no book banning took place.

I'll use the Ann Coulter approach here and repeat that just in case you are a liberal and are reading this, just so you can get it through your head: No book banning took place.

The reporter of that article apparently and blindly followed the lead of the New York Times and Time magazine.

Keep in mind this all happened twelve years ago.

Time magazine wrote, quoting the opinion of someone named Stein: "Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. She asked the library how she could go about banning books...."

That isn't what Palin asked.  Palin asked what the book banning policy was and to what extent the librarian would defend that policy.

Then referring to the librarian, Time wrote: "That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.

Wrong again. 
Here is what in fact a local paper, The Frontiersman, wrote on December 18, 1996: "In the wake of strong reactions from the city's library director to inquiries about censorship, Wasilia Mayor Sarah Palin on Monday was taking pains to explain her questions about censoring library material were "rhetorical." 

In another section of the same article Palin said directly: "Many issues were discussed, both rhetorical and realistic in nature."

Almost two weeks after the initial firestorm USA Today would finally print a story with the unequivocal headline, representing the fact: "Palin did not ban books in Wasilia." 

I also read one story by some liberal moron in a local newspaper I can't remember the name of right now, and although the article was laced with innuendo via liberal code words for evil and wrong doing,  it was still evident that no books were banned. 

So I'm thinking: If there were no books banned, then what's the "news" value of all this attention and all these stories.  Of course, there was none.  Though the reporter could never bring themselves to point that fact out.  

This liberal media episode reminds me of the Dan Rather fiasco during the 2004 campaign.  Liberals often appear to have a way of thinking similar to arrested development; it's very programmatic and contrary to the hype, it is definitely anti-progressive. 

Even when it was revealed that Dan Rather had used a fake document as his source, he still believed he was justified in doing a story that did not exist except inside a delusion of his own mind.  The justification was Mr. Rather's own personal hatred of George W. Bush.  He apparently wanted to be the media hero who destroyed President Bush's 2004 re-election.  He wanted to be that hero so bad he created his own imaginary, negative news source for his story.

Underneath Mr. Rather's episode and underneath 90% of the Palin attacks, is that cynical arrogance and pathetic paranoia that deludes the mainstream media into believing it is not only their job to report on the campaign, but their job to control the campaign.

As USA Today finally reported, the "news" was created by a list of nationally banned books that was already on the internet.  A list that had nothing to do with the library in Wasilia. 

And there was mention in one article of a homosexual priest in Alaska who wrote a book about being homosexual and who claimed his book was "missing" from the Wasilia library. 
Just the mention of this homosexual in regards to the Palin story is an attempt, because Palin is a conservative, to imply that Palin had something to do with his book's disappearance, therefore, in their lopsided minds, justifying what was never anything more than innuendo. 

Another item of interest is the Kilkenny woman who has provided the universe with what she feels is a kind of a casual, private detective rendition for the media of her "useful" opinion of Governor Palin because she attended all the city council meetings. 

She appears to present her chronicle as a humble observation of Governor Palin at work while subconsciously it is apparent she has the illusion that her chronicle will serve to save the liberals and the nation, from Governor Palin. 

Here is Ms Kilkenny's version of the issue: The librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, pledged to "resist all efforts at censorship.  Ms Palin fired Ms. Emmons shortly after taking office but changed course after residents made a strong show of support...."

Once again, the firing of some of the city employees (a mayor's right) is falsely linked to the book banning issue.

As reported at the time in The Frontiersman: "Upon Taking Office, Mayor Palin Immediately Took Charge To Shake Up The Old Guard In Wasilla By Asking For Resignations And Reapplications For Several City Department Heads — Including Librarian Mary Ellen Emmons. “Sarah asked the department heads to resign and reapply for their positions. She requested resignations from the police chief, Public Works Director Jack Felton, Finance Director Duane Dvorak, and Librarian Mary Ellen Emmons."

In other stories, when Governor Palin said the discussion regarding book banning was "rhetorical," the Kilkenny woman said her perception of it was that it was more than "rhetorical" while at the same time, when pressed, said she couldn't remember any specifics of the discussions.  And there you have it, the liberal MSM innuendo squad, plus an innuendo intern at their best.

INCORPORATE THIS ITEM FROM THE ALASKA DAILY NEWS AS EDIT:

Witnesses and contemporary news accounts say Ms. Palin asked the librarian about removing books from the shelves. The McCain-Palin presidential campaign says Ms. Palin never advocated censorship.

But in 1995, Ms. Palin, then a city councilwoman, told colleagues that she had noticed the book "Daddy's Roommate" on the shelves and that it did not belong there, according to Ms. Chase and Mr. Stein. Ms. Chase read the book, which helps children understand homosexuality, and said it was inoffensive; she suggested that Ms. Palin read it.

"Sarah said she didn't need to read that stuff," Ms. Chase said. "It was disturbing that someone would be willing to remove a book from the library and she didn't even read it."

"I'm still proud of Sarah," she added, "but she scares the bejeebers out of me."