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Tuesday, January 11, 2005
America unbanned in Mississippi
A public library in Mississippi may have tried to ban Jon Stewart's America The Book, but apparently that ruling will not stand. CNN reports:
A library board reversed a ban on comedian Jon Stewart's best-selling satirical book, which it had passed because of its image of Supreme Court justices' faces superimposed on naked bodies.As John Grisham noted to Jon Stewart last night, being banned is often a positive sign of recognition. Mark Twain and others have been banned, so Jon was in good company.
The Jackson-George Regional Library System board of trustees was criticized by local residents and in e-mails from out of state after it banned "America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction" last month. The trustees had said they objected to the image.
But the board voted 5-2 Monday to lift the ban, and the book was returned to circulation in the system's eight libraries Tuesday.
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