In the other thread, Jody never addressed my point about the Democrats’ efforts to censor The Path to 9-11, even when the Democrat majority leader of the senate made threats against the broadcast license of the ABC network. It seems his opposition to censorship is selective.

I do? Really? You mean because I don’t answer you, on the comments of a blog post, your conclusion is correct? You are a deceptively intelligent human being, V.

Unfortunately, Jody, and his cohorts on the political left feel…

Of course! Now I understand! I apologize. You are a Betazed! Your spurious leaps of logic, composition fallacies and inane conclusions make so much sense now in light of your empathic abilities. In pursuit of your duties as the Resident Ship’s Counselor of GayPatriot.Net do you wear the short skirt or snappy leotard?

They asked for the files on “Obama’s interactions with Ayers on public panels the University set up….”

Fair enough. I was mistaken. If they’re public documents about public proceedings paid for with public funds then they should be opened.

which the Obama campaign

I didn’t see anything in your link or in a quick search of the web to show that the campaign opined one way or the other on the matter. If you have evidence to the contrary, please post it here.

and its government cronies in Illinois…

Possibly, but there’s no evidence in the link you posted, or for that matter anything I saw on a quick google search, to show that the Obama campaign had a role in it. Sure, they could have called up the University and said block the release of the information — and Palin could have told Wasalia Librarian #2 what books to buy, not buy and not replace. At this time, there’s no evidence that either thing occurred, so honestly you have to count it as personal speculation.

You certainly can’t draw conclusions from it.

Now, again: Why do you support government…

Now that I’ve answered your question, please answer mine: When did you stop beating your partner/boyfriend/spouse?

No one asked for Obama’s educational records. They asked for the files on “Obama’s interactions with Ayers on public panels the University set up”, which the Obama campaign and its government cronies in Illinois attempted to block and censor.

Now, again: Why do you support government officials like Obama being allowed to ban and censor public information about them from being released, such as Obama’s interactions with Ayers on public panels the University set up?

For the record, even though I oppose any kind of political censorship, I think moral issues are a proper place for communities to decide for themselves what is acceptable and what is not. Unfortunately, Jody, and his cohorts on the political left feel the opposite way, and we unfortunately have a Supreme Court that gives more free speech protection to pronography than to political speech. That’s effed up, in my opinion.

Comment by Jody — September 18, 2008 @ 3:07 am – September 18, 2008 ”

That’s why so many of us fear Hussien and Stretch Pelosi. They’re a naked threat to freedom.

But you support and endorse Obama’s attempt to ban and censor those records from ever being released.

I support Obama’s — and your — right to keep your private educational records private. While I might want to read them, I don’t have the right to read them. It’s his option to release them or not. If he choses to demand that McCain (or Clinton, at the time) release every last document without he, himself, responding in kind, then it reflects the naked politicing and sound bite seeking that it is. At the end of the day we still aren’t entitled to see his records.

And Kurtz had the University open it’s files on Obama’s interactions with Ayers on public panels the University set up. That’s a different thing altogether than Obama’s personal, educational records.

Why do you support government officials like Obama being allowed to ban and censor public information about them from being released

I don’t. Now that I’ve answered your question, answer mine: When did you stop beating your spouse?

(Does it register how asinine your “Why do you…” questions sound?)

You claim in #18, we don’t know what occurrred “during that time,” so you’re going entirely on supposition here. Entirely. If I made such assumptions about Barack Obama, saying neither you nor I know if Barack Obama still associates with unprentant terrorists, I’d expect you’d read me the riot act.

First, I hate your spam filter.

Second, I read your post — and disagreed by pointing out that censorship isn’t a mistake.

Third, my bit in post 18 was in response to your “Why didn’t she try it again?” question: We have no idea what occurred on the down low when she hired her new librarian. And you’ll also note, in post 18, right I after I raised that argument, I point out how weak it was, how that question falls both ways, and how, in the end, we can only then discuss what is known: On three occasions, after being elected to office, Palin inquired about censoring books and was told “No” by a Librarian she ultimately couldn’t get rid of. I disagreed with you that this was a “rookie” mistake.

So, no, I’m not judging her by a mistake she made 12 years ago. Censoring… attempting to censor…inquiring about censoring…is not a mistake, it’s not an error that occurs from “…defective judgement, deficient knowledge or carelessness.” It’s quite the deliberate act. You don’t “accidentally” inquire about censoring… on three different occasions.

Oh, and did I mention I hate your spam filter?

[Jody, you're not the only one. Makes more work for me. As to the content of your comment, well, um, this defective judgment was 12 years ago. So, you're basically saying that someone can't change in that space of time? That she didn't inquire again about removing books suggests to me that she had learned. And that was the point of the post. And recall, yet again, she did get rid of the librarian and didn't inquire about removing books with her successor. --Dan]

Mr. Kurtz is a conservative writer who this week forced the University of Illinois to finally open its records on Sen. Obama’s association with William Ayers, the unrepentant 1970s Weather Underground terrorist.

The University of Illinois is a public university. Therefore, its records must be made open to the public. But you support and endorse Obama’s attempt to ban and censor those records from ever being released.

Why do you support government officials like Obama being allowed to ban and censor public information about them from being released?

Um, Jody, let me ask again, did you even read the post? She didn’t pursue the matter for her next six years in office–even after the librarian with whom she had the run in stepped down.

You claim in #18, we don’t know what occurrred “during that time,” so you’re going entirely on supposition here. Entirely. If I made such assumptions about Barack Obama, saying neither you nor I know if Barack Obama still associates with unprentant terrorists, I’d expect you’d read me the riot act.

What we do know is that no books were banned while Sarah Palin was Mayor. And if there were evidence Palin pursued the matter after 1996, you’d think the librarian would come forward with it.

So, you’re judging her by a mistake she made 12 years ago. I guess that means you won’t be voting for Barack Obama because of the prominent role an ex-gay zealout played in his campaign events last year. It speaks to his character–and happened while he was running for president.

And note again, the point of the post. She didn’t pursue the matter after 1996. And no books were ever removed from the Wasilla Public Library.

You can call it whatever you want, Jody. But, she made no willful act to remove anything. She posed a question, but never acted to removed the books.

And you have yet to address the fundamental point of the post to which you attach your comment–if this were an issue near and dear to her heart, why didn’t she follow up, especially in 1999 what that pesky librarian was out of the way.

And anyway, even if she did removing any of the books, it wouldn’t have been censorship.

Jody, you keep repeating your same point over and over and over again. And I keep alerting you to what I actually wrote about.

By your standards then, Barack Obama regularly seeks advice from unrepentant terrorists and still exposes his daughters to anti-white bigotry.

Did it ever occur to you that she may have realized her actions in 1996 were inappropriate? I mean, Jody, let me repeat, there is no evidence she inquired about removing any books since 1996.

Why does the chump behind the counter glare at me like that? The guy at Blockbuster doesn’t give me looks when I rent gay cinema….why is it that Coulter, Hannity, Levin etc. books are always facing backwards at the bookstore?

TGC, what are you, the Conservative Seinfeld, now?

Jody, this isn’t murder we’re talking about. It’s politics.

Dan, censorship isn’t a “mistake.” It isn’t a mark of “inexperience.” It’s a willful act to remove an Idea placed in the public sphere, from the public sphere. It’s anathema to a Free Society.

And she “inquired” about censoring not once, not twice, but three times — and was told “no” each time. When confronted on the issue? She didn’t apologize, she weaseled. “I was just kidding.”

It’s not a great mark of character.

Speaking of which, why is it that Coulter, Hannity, Levin etc. books are always facing backwards at the bookstore?

Not that I care, mind you. Just something I’ve noticed.

Jody’s clearly hysterical. If Palin had really wanted to do so, it would have happened one way or the other.

Can’t ban books, but you sure as hell can do your best to ban Conservative radio and websites.