In a statement to the Washington Post, PBS programming executives insist that their decision was “not political,” despite the edited comments containing material that skewered Fey’s fellow comedian and assault to feminism – Sarah Palin.
Fey graciously thanked Palin for providing a comedy goldmine. She said, “"My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that ever happened to me."
PBS insists those remarks were edited along with many other comments of others presenting in the awards show, and it’s merely a coincidence that the portions included Fey’s remarks about Palin.
We had to wonder about PBS’s reaction to Tina Fey’s speech so soon after they censored Katy Perry’s cleavage on “Sesame Street,” so we caught up with one public television producer for comment. He told us, “Tina Fey is beyond lucky that John McCain chose Sarah Palin for his running mate. It probably even enabled her to keep her middling, poorly rated “30 Rock” on the air for as long as she has, as the people that did tune in probably thought that it was Sarah Palin was playing Liz Lemon. I thought her comments about the half-term governor were pretty tame and didn’t warrant censorship. I mean, it’s not like Tina ever uttered the words ‘bigoted, money-grubbing, grifter’ to describe Sarah in her speech the way she easily could have done.”
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