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Posted on Oct 22, 2008
Tales from the Palin
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The ghoulish comic “Tales From the Crypt” is taking a spooky look at the possibility of a Sarah Palin presidency. An editorial by Gathy Gaines Mifsud, daughter of publisher William Gaines—who was a target of a ghastly 1950s Senate investigation on censorship—rails against Palin’s reported McCarthy-esque book-banning stunts while mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.


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If the thought of Sarah Palin becoming vice president or even president of the United States scares the living daylights out of you, well you’re not alone. Cathy Gaines Mifsud is evidently so unhappy about the possibility that she has written an editorial decrying the candidate in Tales From the Crypt, which features Palin on the cover beating the crap out of the comic’s venerable horror hosts with a hockey stick.

The editorial takes aim at Palin’s reported preference for book-banning back when she was mayor of tiny Wasilla, Alaska. It’s a sensitive subject in the Gaines family: Gaines Mifsud’s father, William Gaines, who was publisher of Mad Magazine and the original Tales From the Crypt, was the unfortunate subject of a Senate investigation in 1954 that aimed to censor his no-holds-barred horror comics. The hysteria was stoked by the publication of Dr. Frederic Wertham’s ludicrous book, Seduction of the Innocent, released the same year.

“Tales From the Crypt is not endorsing any political candidates, nor are we attacking any candidates,” Gaines Mifsud writes in the editorial. “What usually seems to be behind banning books is an attempt to repress ideas that may offer alternative political views. This is not only un-American—blatantly violating the very concept of free speech—but it is assuming that people are unable to come to their own informed conclusions.”

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By nrobi, October 27, 2008 at 3:32 pm #

Hyperbole aside, Ms. Palin, is without doubt the dumbest bunny on the planet. She makes a mockery of the collegiate system of which she is a supposed graduate.
She did try to ban books and the librarian stood up to her, consequently being fired but being a most popular part of the city service workers, was reinstated by the city commission against the wishes of Mayor Sarah Palin.
No one can explain the reasoning for Sarah Palin’s obvious lack of credibility, for no other reason than that she is a bible-thumping, tongue-talking, hysterical far right wing chrisitan lunatic. Ms. Palin is the kind of person, that gives Christian a bad name, for she is the backwards thinking, apocalyptic believing person that causes most normal people to run and hide from such medieval concepts.
Book banning is just the tip of the iceberg for Ms. Palin, she would have the US back in the 17th Century
as far as the common man would be concerned, including state sponsored church worship services, blue laws that would make the Pope blush, and living in the late 19th century as far as working conditions are concerned.  The industrial revolution was no friend of the common working man, woman and child. She would roll back all child labour laws, do away with the collective bargaining rights of workers and leave no doubt that she is the decider.
Should John McCain, become president, then within a span of two years you would see the worst possible scenario happening. Sarah Palin, would take over the presidency, come hell or high water through a coup or other means of deceit, and then the “fun” would start.
Ms. Palin, leaves no doubt in my mind that she is the worst thing that could happen to this country, other than another presidency of the shrub. She truly believes that she is G-d appointed to become the first woman president and with that she would complete the work of the shrub and the neo-cons.

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By SouthernYankee, October 24, 2008 at 6:53 pm #
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Let’s pray when the american voters finally vote they will be sending her back to AK where the good people who finally wised up will impeach her and send her back to Wasilla.

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By hippy pam, October 23, 2008 at 9:47 am #

http://palinaspresident.us/

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By slumlord, October 22, 2008 at 6:19 pm #

im no fan of time magazine but i just read ‘a rough record’ as its the first google entry for the subject. even though shes obviously a hypocritical, bible thumping, ridiculously stupid liar i tried to give her the same benifit of the doubt i give everyone until i read that article. i did not know this bitch tried to ban books. thats the end-all.
banning books is absolutely, with out a doubt, unamerican period

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By endersister, October 22, 2008 at 5:36 pm #
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the truths about palin are horrifying enough without the use of hyperbole.  the book-banning issue was taken up by factcheck.org in september:

“She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a “What if?” question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin’s first term.”

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