Chicagoans want to ban Sarah Palin’s books
In an unscientific, but amazing on-the-ground poll, 36% of Chicagoans voted to ban Sarah Palin’s books from being sold in the Windy City.
The guys from RebelPundit.com attended the Printer’s Row Literature Festival in June. The festival has city blocks roped off and thousands of titles on hand for display, discussion and sale.
RebelPundit staff then set up a sandwich board device that offered people 11 choices of authors, and asked passersby which, if any, of these authors they would “ban” from Chicagoland bookstores.
The authors included : Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Andrew Breitbart, Ayn Rand, Michael Savage, Bill Clinton, Michael Moore, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler and Barack Obama.
Here’s a quick summation of their findings. The video of their findings is available on their website:
Participants overwhelmingly chose Sarah Palin who received 53 votes putting her at 36% overall, Glenn Beck at 23% and Ann Coulter at 22%. All of the other choices received a very minimal amount of votes, with the next most popular to ban being Adolf Hitler at 0.5%.
RebelPundit.com also pointed out that a few people (no exact number given) did say that no books should be banned, and those few people should be applauded. Yet this unscientific study shows, again, that those who claim to be the most open-minded rarely are.
Is this the tolerance, or the “Celebrate Diversity![sic]” ?
If you’ve never been to the Printers’ Row book fair in Chicago it is the biggest collection of Marxists, leftists, atheists, anti-Americans and Obama zombies this side of San Francisco. It’s a Commiepalooza.
So it was an unscientific poll, and the way the question was phrased was to pick a name rather than ask if they were for banning books. The poll question is more like if you could ban any Conservative author, which author would you ban.
I think it’s a non story.
Non-story? Really?
The overwhelming response should have been to not ban any authors. Only a few thought like that.
There were not just Conservative authors in the list.
Rightwingers: Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Andrew Breitbart, Ayn Rand, Michael Savage
Leftwingers: Bill Clinton, Michael Moore, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler and Barack Obama
Who was to be banned? The first 3 names. Hitler got, what, a single vote? He’s banned by law in Germany! IOW, these people find Palin, Beck, and Coulter more offensive than even Hitler. WTF?!?
Non-story? This is man-on-the-street in Chicago, a Democratic stronghold. This is what such places are like. Dear Lord!
In my view censors are at the top of the list of despicable creatures. Advocating censorship is indefensible and it is unconscionable that so many people were willing to engage in it. But then chicago has a long history of such behavior.
PJM – I am not aware of how you guys monitor the comments on your site. I dont appreciate my comment being scrubbed, and I have not received a reply yet as to why my comment this morning was not posted. I am hoping it was a technical glitch. I have had comments censored from The Gaurdian and HuffPo, Salon and other such sites ( The Blaze being the only example on ‘right wing’ ) but that is to be expected. It is not acceptable here. These are serious and important topics, the commenters appear to be mostly intelligent and well educated. I doubt anyone here has delicate sensibilities. If they do, they should mosey on over to another site and read about sports and entertainment news.
The authors themselves are the moderators for their articles. Sometimes, you have to refresh your page to see your comment. And yes, sometimes they scrub comments. Depends on which author. It is a judgment call. Don’t sweat it too much. I am glad they do it. I comment here only, because most other sites are screech-fests. Consider it the price you pay for a mostly civil forum.
Keep posting, suthenboy. I like your comments.
CrustyB is right. I had a non-political display table there one year, and so did a bunch of Commies (yes, real, live communists–although none were over twenty-two, I think). Guess who got more traffic. Most of the rest of the tables were staffed by snooty idiotic ultra-left a**holes (yes, real, live a**holes–although none of them had an I.Q. of over twenty-two, I think).
Can’t defeat them with facts and logics, shut them up. Why not send them to China’s reeducation camps? They are quite efficient. The reactionary artist who has spent some time there clamps up now.
Big surprise.
In the 20th century liberal Democrats jailed hundreds of people for the “crime” of saying things liberal Democrats didn’t like or for belonging to organizations liberal Democrats didn’t approve of.
Why would anyone think that they’ve changed they’re attitude? Liberals are totalitarians. They’re not going to change.
Well, I suppose they’ll be banning Fahrenheit 411 next, right?