PALIN SIMPLY CAN'T TELL THE TRUTH

It's truly something to behold. Sarah Palin (with Greta Van Susteren) on that whole book banning thing:

And then, too, things that, again, so easily could have been corrected about my supposed attempts to censor and ban books when I was the mayor of Wasilla. And one of the examples that they gave was that media was just sure that one of the books I tried to ban was Harry Potter. Of course, it hadn't even been written when I was the Mayor of Wasilla.

Just for the record, Sarah Palin was Mayor of Wasilla from 1996-2002. The first Harry Potter book was published in 1997. In fact, FOUR BOOKS in the Harry Potter series came out during Palin's tenure as Mayor.

Does that mean she tried to ban them? No. But when your explanations aren't even based in fact - you're on very shaky ground. I for one will say "Thanks, but no thanks" to Palin for the rest of my lifetime.