Librarian Suggests Right-Wing Books, Hilarity Ensues

mdoneil says:

Re:Just wanted to clarify…
I heard about this earlier in the week and I though it was a joke. I was looking for the source to which it was attributed to be the Onion or some such publication.

This is without a doubt one of the funniest things I have ever heard. They asked a librarian for books that would foster quite a bit of dialog – in essence books that would be controversial – and he provided books that he felt would fit the bill.

Now these big college professors relate that they are afraid of these little books. Who else but a leftist could be afraid of a book, perhaps it contained ideas, ideas that differ from the leftist point of view. Lock up the librarians. It works for Castro, he must be very afraid of books. However these college professors have not risen quite to the level of leftieness required to be so afraid of books that they lock up the librarian, they simply charge that his suggestions might make life uncomfortable for people who do strange things with their genitalia. They are vicariously afraid that these students might have something horrible happen to them at the library that contains these books and of course that librarian. My Goodness, he could pray silently for them, or perhaps suggest a book for them. There are Christian books in the collection …..ahhhh …run away! Run Away!

Holy geez people, they asked for controversial books, he suggested them, and now they are mad because the are not by Jimmy Carter or Maria Shriver. Don’t they have books in the library by authors, not has been politicians and Karen Carpenteresque newsreaders?

Here are some suggestions Descartes, Goethe, Aquinus, Aristotle… perhaps then the students could be taught how to think for themselves and not be led by the nose down the gardenpath of liberalism so prevalent on campus today. I am the eternal optomist.