The Librarian who said no to Sarah Palin

A novelist blogs about censorship:


THE LIBRARIAN WHO SAID NO TO SARAH PALIN


by Tess Gerritsen

It has been my practice to avoid any political commentary when I blog. There are good people on both sides of the aisle, and I have no wish to offend anyone. But this column isn’t really about politics; it’s about censorship, which most writers claim to be against, even though most are oddly and tellingly silent about this particular instance of it. It’s also about our country’s guardians of free thought, those fearless foot soldiers who have long protected our right to read what we want to read. (So long as we keep our voices hushed while browsing the stacks.)

I'm talking about librarians.

Librarians don't usually make it into the news, but these are unusual times. There's been a lot of excitement over Sarah Palin's candidacy for Vice President, and no wonder. She's clearly intelligent, she has a compelling personal story, and she even knows how to kill and field-dress a moose. But in all the hoopla, another woman's name has quietly surfaced from Sarah Palin's political past, a name that many may have missed: Mary Ellen Emmons.

She's the librarian who once stood up to Sarah Palin. And got fired for it...



http://jdrhoades.blogspot.com/2008/09/guest-blogger-tess-gerritsen.html

I THINK Palin asked for her resignation and all hell broke loose, so she let the matter drop.

But great info -- it will hopefully put to rest those bogus book lists that have been being forwarded around.