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Freedom of the press and freedom of speech are the cornerstones of what makes this a free country, and they are what keeps free people…free!
Therefore, if I were Gwen Ifill and being a journalist, after welcoming the debaters I would have said:
“Sen. Biden, please excuse us. This question is for Gov. Sarah Palin and her alone.”
Then I would have throw in a little Saturday Night Live Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin and said:
“Sarah, you ignorant slut. Why did you ask the Wasilla town librarian if she would consider banning books, and if she‘d agreed, which books would you have asked her to ban?”
As an aside, I would have told her not to bother denying it and held up reams of newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts proving that she had asked the librarian.
Palin even threatened to fire the woman until the town folk interceded on the librarian’s behalf.
I would have kept peppering her with questions until she came up with a decent answer even if it took the entire damn 90 minutes, and I’ll betcha that question wasn’t on any of her little crib cards.
To close out round one, I’d ask Biden his considered opinion of book banning.
If there were nothing else about Palin that was scarier than a midnight walk through a graveyard like the Reverend Doctorer of Witches, who laid hands on Palin to chase away the E-vil hags, or her separatist husband -- that one thing -- book banning, is a deal breaker.
Anyone who had that thought cross his mind is not fit to hold office in the United States government.
And what about John McCain’s judgment in picking a running mate who wants to ban books or even questioned a librarian as to whether or not she’d be open to the idea?
We could write volumes on that.
