A reader writes: "In Peggy Noonan’s Friday column in the WSJ, she mentions a 'deadly email' making the rounds. Thanks to the mighty power of Google, I believe I have reconstructed it. It consists of two photos and a caption. Here they are."
Caption: This settles it.
Of related interest: In the interest of truth in advertising, the Palin "banned books list" turns out to be a hoax, as even
Snopes, which vets Urban Legends and is no friend of cultural conservatives reports:
Claim: List catalogs books banned from the Wasilla, Alaska, public library by Mayor Sarah Palin.
Status: False.
"... One obvious clue that the list must have been cobbled together from some source other than discussions that may have taken place in Wasilla in 1996 is that several of its entries (most notably the books in J.K. Rowling's popular Harry Potter series, which began in 1997) hadn't yet been published back then. In fact, versions of this list have been circulating since at least as far back as 1998, and it is actually a catch-all collection of titles said to be 'books banned at one time or another in the United States.'"
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