“It seems apropos that Banned Books Week begins next weekend,” wrote columnist Leonard Pitts, reflecting on the reports of how Sarah Palin asked the Wasilla, Alaska, librarian three times about removing controversial books from the shelves. The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom “reports that since 1990 it has seen 9,700 ‘challenges’ — a challenge is defined as a formal written request to remove a book from a library because the content offends or is deemed inappropriate,” Pitts wrote. “Chillingly, the office suggests that’s probably an undercount. It estimates that for every challenge reported, four or five are not.
“So Palin has company, to say the least.”
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