.@IAGovernor @KimReynoldsIA goes nuclear on the press after the ask ridiculous question about “banned books” in Iowa!

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— Beth Mushin (@beth_mushin) October 25, 2023

“Our kids and our teachers deserve better,” Reynolds said. “They deserve the tools to help these kids succeed. Not a damn distraction on a nasty, pornographic book that should never, ever be in a classroom.” …

“If you’re a parent, and you think it’s important … for your child to have access to that, then OK, go buy the book. We didn’t ban them,” Reynolds said at a Wednesday news conference.

“Go buy the book, sit down, and have a conversation with your child, but let’s not put that on the teachers, and let’s not put that on the schools,” said Reynolds, a Republican who won a landslide reelection last November.

[No one is banning books. Libraries curate content constantly, and rational curation would not allow pornographic content in school libraries. Kim Reynolds has this exactly correct, especially the part about the same media that frames curation as “book bans” refusing to air the content on its own air when read aloud or displayed for the cameras. — Ed]