It is very easy and popular to critize political figures, but this story seems to have some credibility. In short, Sarah Palin, while Mayor of Wasilla, pressured the city's librarian to censor a book. After that encounter, Mayor Palin terminated the librarian. In the end, the town supported the librarian and the Mayor had to back down. ABC found it credible enough for an investigation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZII0GjcJMus
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It's an interesting news report, and worth an improvisation skit even if a celebrity wasn't involved - has Tina Fey done a cover of it yet? Hope the working conditions at Wasilla's Library improved because of this incident, and hope the discussion it generated in the town helped build community support for the library, and increase understanding about how choices are made to circulate current books. Social controversy can be an opportunity and a learning moment for all of us. Palin won't make that move again. How many censorship cases like this occur each yr?
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