Though they claim that Tina Fey’s harsher Palin jokes were cut due to time constraints for the television broadcast of the Mark Twain Humor Prize, the editorial team at Big Hollywood still felt it was important to post this story as an opportunity to reassure PBS that if the decision to axe those particular jokes was in any way made to avoid a controversy involving conservatives, they shouldn’t have bothered.
Conservatives are neither Muslim extremists who will take your head, bitter, humorless, Soros-funded leftists who will harass you until you fire someone, or neo-fascists who have decided to label humor aimed at us as bullying. We might pray for you or write a blog post about the stupidity of funding you with taxpayer dollars (we’ll do that anyway), but that’s about as hard as we roll.
WaPo:
Tina Fey got a little political airbrushing from PBS Sunday night during its annual broadcast of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. …
“And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women – except, of course –those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape ‘kit ‘n’ stuff,” Fey said. “But for everybody else, it’s a win-win. Unless you’re a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years – whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know – actually, I take it back. The whole thing’s a disaster.”
But that’s not what viewers heard when PBS and WETA (channel 26) broadcast an edited version of Fey’s speech on Sunday. The part about rape kits and evolution was gone, leaving only Fey’s more harmonious — and blander — comments about Palin and politics[.]…
Was PBS shielding its viewers from Fey’s more pointed remarks?
“It was not a political decision,” responded Peter Kaminsky, one of the broadcast’s executive producers. “We had zero problems with anything she said.”
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