Jon Stewart's Book Banned From Some Libraries, Wal-Mart

[matcom]

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GULFPORT, Miss. -- Jon Stewart's best-selling "America (The Book)" has been banned from eight public libraries in two southern Mississippi counties.

The library director for Jackson and George counties is upset over the satirical textbook's nude depictions of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices. He said he'd have kept the book if not for the one picture.

The book -- a mock school textbook -- parodies the American government in typical "Daily Show" fashion. The page facing the nude photos has cutouts of the justices' robes, complete with a caption asking readers to "restore their dignity by matching each justice with his or her respective robe."

Wal-Mart is also refusing to stock the book because of the page featuring the faces of the nine Supreme Court justices superimposed over naked bodies.

"It's not gratuitous and it's very much in tune with the rest of the book," Jamie Raab, a publisher for Warner Books, which produced "America," said when Wal-Mart banned the book. "It's funny, yet to the point. When you undress the Supreme Court justices, they're just men and women and you have to judge them on who they are and what they do. It makes you look and think and laugh."

Raab said readers won't look at that page to get titillated, but to laugh.

The book by Stewart and the writers of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" was released in September. It has spent 15 weeks on the New York Times best seller list and was named Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly.

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[KitchenWitch]

1. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Gotta go buy that book. Do they sell it at Costco? LOL

[supernova]

2. Yes, they do

I forget the price, thought. I think it's around 20 bucks.

edit: I got a B&N gift card at xmas, so I'm getting America with that. :-)

[dbt]

3. Old Arkie expression: Thank God for Mississippi!

(Because they keep us from looking like the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet, FYI)

How many more copies of Stewart's book did Mississippi just help to sell?

:evilgrin:
dbt

[Bill Lumbergh]

4. So rip the page out

And put it back on the shelf.

Problem solved.

[Burma Jones]

5. I got the book (twice) for Christmas, and I have to tell you......

That the page with the nude Justices IS pretty disturbing. I do find it humorous that the authors decided that Clarence Thomas was the least endowed Justice, both denying the stereotype and accurately reflecting his stature on the Court. In fact, if you look closely enough, you can see Scalia holding something sorta sack-like..........