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	Name:	MythBuster -
	Subject:	No, my job is to bust MYTHS...
	Date:	9/8/2008 7:24:23 PM

and the original post, as written, is not only not a myth, but is confirmed by your link to Snopes. (Which is a great site, by the way; a daily dose of Snopes should be required for all internet users.)

What Uncle Sam said was: "I learned that one of her first acts as an elected official was to call the library so she could learn about the best way to go about banning books." He doesn't say she got any books banned, he doesn't list any books, he doesn't even say she demanded it. But he says she asked about it.

And right there, in your link to Snopes, we learn "In December 1996, [city librarian Mary Ellen] Emmons told her hometown newspaper, the Frontiersman, that Palin three times asked her — starting before she was sworn in — about possibly removing objectionable books from the library if the need arose."

Then we hear about her request a second time, form another person: "When the matter came up for the second time in October 1996, during a City Council meeting, Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla housewife who often attends council meetings, was there. Like many Alaskans, Kilkenny calls the governor by her first name. "Sarah said to Mary Ellen, 'What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?" Kilkenny said."

And then, straight from the horse's mouth: "Palin herself, questioned at the time, called her inquiries rhetorical and simply part of a policy discussion with a department head "about understanding and following administration agendas," according to the Frontiersman article."

So she admits asking about banning books. And, going back to the original post, that is what the concern was: that she looked into banning books.

The myth that Snopes blows out of the water concerns books that were supposedly banned. They weren't, and anybody who says she actually had books banned is either a liar, or an easily-manipulated idiot. But, for whatever reasons, SHE DID ASK ABOUT BOOK BANNING. So, Uncle Sam is right. Whether or not it's as big a deal as he makes it out to be-- seeing as how nothing happened-- is a matter of personal choice.