PBS censors Tina Fey's jokes about Sarah Palin at Kennedy Center Mark Twain award ceremony!

[Better Believe It]

Did PBS cut Tina Fey's Palin jokes? You betcha
Comedian ripped former Alaska governor in humor prize acceptance speech
By Gina Serpe
November 16, 2010


It was Tina Fey's biting tongue that earned her the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Though, oddly enough, it was also what cost her a little screen time over the weekend.

It took a couple days to notice, but turns out that Fey's acceptance speech, which aired during the PBS extravaganza over the weekend, got quite the hatchet job, with her most cutting remarks about — guess who? — Sarah Palin excised from the television broadcast.

Was there a conservative conspiracy at work? Depends on whom you ask.

If you ask the executive producer of the PBS broadcast, Peter Kaminsky, the answer is no.

It was not a political decision," he told the Washington Post. "We had zero problems with anything she said."

Guess it was just a coincidence that they chose to edit out the most controversial two minutes of her speech. Hopefully not to avoid the avalanche of headlines that might have ensued. Because that sure backfired.

However, instead of opting to pare down the broadcast — which ran 19 minutes over its 90-minute allotted time — by cutting out the myriad career clips that ran between each celebrity speaker, or cutting out a speaker entirely, they decided instead to cut out Fey's subsequent comments about Palin.

Read the full article at:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40219562

You can see the uncut, online version of the program at:

http://video.pbs.org/video/1642947954

Of course it wasn't a political decision. They had to cut someones time and it just happened to be the person being honored at the Kennedy Center.
BBI

[RainDog]

1. I KNOW. that's the biggest bunch of b.s. They cut the remarks of the person honored

but not from those who talked about her and not clips of her work.

PBS has shamed itself.

[TBF]

2. PBS has sold out, just like the rest of them. nt

[EFerrari]

3. It was just a time crunch!

lol

[liberal N proud]

4. Its official

Palin is the chosen one, her child continues to stay on the Dancing with the Stars regardless of how badly she does and anyone who says anything about the word smith queen is censored or chastised.

It's all part of the continuous run for 2012. If Palin is not front and center for the next 2 years, no one will care who she is in 2 years.

[TexasObserver]

5. Unbelievable!