Did PBS cut Tina Fey's Palin jokes? You betcha

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.

"Politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women — except, of course, those who will end up paying for their own rape kit and stuff. 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."

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40219562/ns/today-entertainment/

The first three paragrapghs are the first three from the article...the fourth is what they cut...what spineless assholes.

for years because of a hatchet job the local station did on a mental health case some years ago. They needlessly castigated two of my colleagues (indeed, our entire agency) and couldn't be bothered to get the facts of the case correct. Fuck 'em.