Strawman E-mails? Sarah Palin's inquiries on banning books makes her unfit to protect our Constitution. · Sep 10, 10:25 PM by John

There’s been much ado over an e-mail floating around that talks about Sarah Palin’s requests for information about banning books when she was mayor of Wasilla. The e-mail includes a list of supposed books she attempted to ban. This has the Republican pundits in a tizzy! “This e-mail is full of lies!” they scream.

What are they mad about? Are they furious that their candidate asked about banning books and then trying to fire the librarian who told her she’d fight any such attempts? Nope. That’s fine by them evidently. But, this e-mail lets them lie about her actions and hide the truth. Sarah Palin did ask her city’s librarian about the procedure to ban books. And, at this same time, her church was trying to get certain books banned. But, the Republican spin machine has whitewashed the whole affair over an e-mail which supposes the books she was looking to have banned.

This begs the question, “where’d that email come from?” The neocon pundits are famous for creating strawman issues and then using them as proof of this or that. Is this their new trick for dealing with Sarah Palin’s inconvenient past? Befuddle their masses with conflicting data they are unable to process without the filters of Hannity and Limbaugh to feed them their thoughts?

Sarah Palin wants to know how to ban books? If you’re even considering it, you’re not fit to protect the Constitution.

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