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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:01 AM
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PBS edits Tina Fey's remarks from Twain event
Edited on Tue Nov-16-10 12:13 AM by Tx4obama
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.

Fey, this year's recipient of the prize, caused a few ripples during her acceptance speech at the ceremony on Tuesday when she mock-praised "conservative women" like Sarah Palin, whom Fey has so memorably impersonated on "Saturday Night Live."

"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.

Article, video, and poll here: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/arts-post/2010/11/by_paul_farhi_tina_fey.html?hpid=topnews

Tina's full 'unedited' speech can be seen here (the 2nd video on the page):
http://www.pbs.org/mark-twain-prize/video.html
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MagickMuffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:13 AM
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1. PBS SUX
Too bad really being so damn liberal and all that goes with it. Yep defund the government money now and let the corporations have it, since they already own it.
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:19 AM
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2. That kind of chicken-shittedness sure makes you want to go to bat for them, eh?
n/t
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:22 AM
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3. It's sort of delicious. PBS edits out the comedy of Tina Fey.
At least they didn't change the name of the award, too.

lol
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:24 AM
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6. They always run to progressives for money.
I'll be damned if I can see that reflected in their content anymore.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:23 AM
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4. Do they realize that much of Twain's humor was political satire?
Ridiculous.
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pleah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 05:04 PM
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18. +1
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:24 AM
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5. Idiots.

Idiotry is the new black.
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:25 AM
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7. Sheesh. nt
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:37 AM
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8. So, what were they censoring -- free rape kits, gay marriage or evolution?
All three, things that Palin came out against.
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:42 AM
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11. That's a very good question.
Not sure if you meant to answer under my post or not, but I agree with you.

What on earth is the justification here?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:44 AM
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12. I sure did.
It's strange little situation, isn't it? They censor her for doing exactly the thing she did to get that award, for sending up Palin.
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Raschel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:37 AM
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9. Junior high Sarah will not let that go unanswered. She's such an idiot.
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redirish28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:40 AM
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10. Has PBS forgotten all that Samuel Clemmons was not only his wit and charm
but his politicial thoughts?


HELLO
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:48 AM
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13. They have to remember because the period just ended that he stipulated
his most vehement political material be held after his death. There's a brand new compilation of unpublished stuff out and that's just the first volume. It's a huge event in the literary world. There's no way it's not in their awareness.



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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 01:41 AM
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14. PBS claims the show was 19 minutes over and this was edited for time
That seems plausible to me.

If they were going to edit it for content, they'd have cut the whole thing.

They cut the rape kit and evolution parts.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 07:00 AM
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15. I did hear the Fey quote about Palin on NPR news, though. n/t
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:31 AM
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16. Proud to have proffered on this board some while back that Tina Fey is a national
treasure which this award would seem to validate. ;)
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:33 AM
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17. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, Tx4obama.
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 10:50 PM
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19. They can't handle the truth. k&r nt
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DeadEyeDyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 10:53 PM
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20. If anything, a lot of those shows should go to
SNL.
SNL has proved, for longer than I have been alive, that the prople will watch a liberal oriented comedy show. Why not just stay there?
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SanchoPanza Donating Member (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:09 PM
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21. Censoring someone accepting an award given in the name of Mark Twain.
Truly, America is taking crazy pills.
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:10 PM
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22. If anybody I would think PBS would get the irony of it all. nt
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unkachuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:17 PM
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23. yet every week on PBS....
....we've witnessed the mclaughlin cabal retching up their endless right-wing vomit for twenty years....
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:37 PM
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24. That sig pic is giving me the willies!
:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-10 09:43 AM
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25. Is that Scrooge? lol I can't tell. nt
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-10 03:57 PM
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26. ..
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