Sarah Palin and Harry Potter

In an interview conducted by the Anchorage Daily News, Sarah Palin attempted to refute the claim that she wanted to ban the first Harry Potter book in Alaska.

Palin: "It was reported that I tried to ban Harry Potter when it hadn't even been written when I was the mayor."

Taegan Goddard of the Political Wire reports in his blog that the first Harry Potter book was published in 1998 which was during Sarah Palin's term as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. So she was basically wrong on when Harry Potter was released, but that doesn't mean that she still tried to ban that particular book. It just means that there were other books that she possibly wanted to ban as she has been reportedly known to have discussed banning books with a librarian in Wasilla.