Poor, Pitiful Palin

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We worked that issue at the time and found nothing there. Here's the deal:

When Palin was first announced, there was a media fishing expeditionfrenzy that moved to Wasilla for about three weeks, looking for garbage. They interviewed her political enemies. The library story was one of the things they came back with. It was a non-story, as no books were banned and nobody lost their job.

The non-story was widely played presenting Palin as a book-burner and unreasonable mayor. This information was somehow coupled with a bureaucratic approach where all city officials are fired and re-hired, and many people repeated the notion that the librarian refused to ban the books and was fired.