Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Tina Fey, Blabbermouth

Tina Fey's Slide
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. 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. [Tina Fey monologue cut by PBS]

Tina Fey's Slide

The Post asks, "Was PBS shielding its viewers from Fey's more pointed remarks? And then asks, Was PBS right to edit Tina Fey's remarks on Sarah Palin?

Protecting their own collective asses
As to the former, If you've watched any PBS lately, you've noticed the hysterical (not funny hysterical, hysterical) pleas that go  -

"Some members of Congress are trying to cut funding for all public television, like Sesame Street blah-blah please contact your representative or these shows will all disappear and who will baby-sit your children, -blah"

So yes, PBS is aware that it's the very people - newly elected and subscribing to Palin's TeaParty instincts -  who will be, hopefully, yanking them off the public teat. 

Viewers like you?
As to the second question, was PBS right to edit?  Well,  who watches PBS anyway?   I don't have to add this, but will anyway.  No PBS program will go off the air if there's an audience for it.

4 comments:

DougM said...

Add "and sponsor" to "audience."
Gov't funding is for stuff you can't sell.
I'm sure Seasame Street will be a highly successful commodity, if put on the open market.
Besides, most of PBS's best stuff actually comes from the UK or Canadia.

Anonymous said...

Once upon a time, I contributed to my local PBS affiliates, but that was before cable exploded, and they actually had something interesting on once in a while. I wasn't thirty yet either, but had voted for Reagan.

If video killed the radio star, then cable and satellite killed these thugs. It's Darwinism bitches. You should be good with that.

Casca

TimO said...

I used to contribute, but the local Miami station now shows strings of commercials after the shows and massive amounts of 'Dr.Feelgood' psycho-babble seminars that should be on basic cable.

If they want to run commercial programming, let them sink or swim like any commercial station WITHOUT tax subsidies. (I wont give to them anymore...)

Anonymous said...

PBS should have edited out that material on the groubnd that it is noteven mildly funny.

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