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USA Today reports that in a bid for more readers and classroom acceptance, a new edition of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is giving the Mark Twain classic a slight but significant makeover, Publishers Weekly reports. Gone is the N-word.

An undated portrait of Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens. The word (which this newspaper does not print) appears 219 times. In its place, Twain scholar Alan Gribben of Auburn University is substituting "slave." He's also doing away with a slang term for Indians in the forthcoming edition from NewSouth Books.

"After a number of talks, I was sought out by local teachers, and to a person they said we would love to teach this novel, and Huckleberry Finn, but we feel we can't do it anymore," he told PW. "In the new classroom, it's really not acceptable."

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I’m vehemently against this kind of censorship foe a very specific reason. If we as a society allow this kind of absurdity to pass without serious examinations as to its dangers, then we open the door to other words that some fools, aka Liberals, want to target.

The day is coming very soon that words like “Christian” “bible” and even “Jesus” is gonna be offensive to enough stupid people in this country that they’ll try in the name of “sensitivity” and “fairness” to remove them from ever being spoken in public, let alone being able to buy in books containing them.

Trust me, its coming!

Looks like the reporters will be allowed full access, instead of being kept 65 meters from oil booms. As long as they have proper credentials. Way to go, Americans. I am proud of us for speaking up.

I mean it. Who does he think he is to tell us we cannot handle our tech devices and that we cannot tell what ranks high on the "truth-meter" or not. And whose truth meter are we talking about. HIS? Because if it were up to him, Fox News would disappear off the cable networks. Rush, Hannity and Levin would disappear off of the air waves. Conservative bloggers would disappear off of the internet. Huffington Post would be required morning reading.

Obama said: "Meanwhile, you're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't rank all that high on the truth meter. With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations; information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment. All of this is not only putting new pressures on you; it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."

This guy is SO transparent. He hates us and he gets his digs in when he can. He was speaking in front of a group of new graduates and wanted to warn them about us purveyors of information. Be careful, Little Red Riding Hood, don't talk to strangers. They might not have your best interest at heart. They might be a...a....heaven forbid, a distraction!

The techies have this issue all wrong. Obama could care less who uses what tech device. I Pad, I Pod, x-boxes. He doesn't want them having access to "unfiltered" opinions on the internet. Some of which don't meet HIS idea of truth. That was his real message and I think Fidel Castro would be proud. Not to mention Chavez.

Pic from NYDailyNews.