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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP72: Hour 3 - The Book Banners

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

There is a push to ban certain books from school curriculum and a federal judge throws out the CDC’s national mask mandate.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there. It is Eric Eurickson here. The Eric Erickson Show. Glad to have you with me.

0:05.0

The phone number is 8779373425 if you'd like to be on the program.

0:12.0

You are more than welcome to call in.

0:15.0

Bob got pad by the call screener. Y'all might be able to as well.

0:19.0

Conservatives are allegedly at it again.

0:24.9

The headline from the Wallster,

0:28.0

from the Washington Post censorship battles, New Frontier,

0:32.1

your public library.

0:34.7

Conservatives are teaming with politicians

0:37.2

to remove books and gut library boards.

0:44.9

Oh, boy. In early November, an email dropped into the inbox of Judge Ron Cunningham, the silver

0:53.5

haired head chair of the governing body of

0:55.8

Lano County in Texas' picturesque Hill County, country. The subject line read pornographic filth at the

1:02.2

Lano Public Libraries. It came to my attention a few weeks ago that pornographic filth has been

1:08.0

discovered at the library, wrote Bonnie Wallace, a 54-year-old local

1:12.4

church volunteer. I'm not advocating for any book to be censored, but to be relocated to the

1:17.8

adult section. It's the only way I can think of to prohibit censorship of books I do agree with,

1:23.8

mainly the Bible, if more radicals come to town and want to use the fact that we censor

1:28.1

these books against us. Wallace had attached an Excel spreadsheet of about 60 books she found

1:34.5

objectionable, including those about transgender teens, sex education, and race, including

1:40.1

notable works like Between the World and Me by author Taneshi Coates.

1:45.0

That's a book that liberal white people read so they can feel themselves connected to the black community.

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