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By Tommy Christopher
Sep 13th 2008 1:35PM

The McCain campaign is defending Sarah Palin from accusations surrounding censorship of the Wasilla Public Library during her tenure as mayor there. From the AP:
Taylor Griffin, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, said Thursday that Palin asked the head librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, on three occasions how she would react to attempts at banning books. He said the questions, in the fall of 1996, were hypothetical and entirely appropriate. He said a patron had asked the library to remove a title the year before and the mayor wanted to understand how such disputes were handled.
The issue of Palin and book-banning has been clouded by exaggerations included in an email making the rounds on the internet. Factcheck did an analysis of the claims, debunking embellishments like a list of banned books that included titles that had not even been released at the time.

However, the fact that someone has gilded the lily does not nullify the existence of the lily. During a purge of Wasilla officials, Palin asked the librarian the banning "hypothetical."
"She asked me if I would object to censorship, and I replied 'Yup'," Emmons told a reporter. "And I told her it would not be just me. This was a constitutional question, and the American Civil Liberties Union would get involved, too."
Palin must be forgetful. She asked the librarian about it twice more. The librarian was fired, then rehired the next day under public outcry, in January, 1997.

Full story here http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008...ghty-librarian/