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PBS Cuts Anti-Palin ‘Rape Kit’ and Lesbian Jokes From Fey Award Speech

When popular comedian, and Sarah Palin impersonator, Tina Fey won the Mark Twain Prize for Humor last week, she made sure to crack a joke about Palin during the acceptance speech. But as it turns out, an editing job by PBS  turned what was more of a roundhouse kick into a love tap.

The Palin joke originally aired by PBS on Sunday night went like this:

I would be a liar and an idiot if I didn’t thank Sarah Palin for helping get me here tonight. My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that ever happened to me. All kidding aside, I’m so proud to represent American humor, I am proud to be an American, and I am proud to make my home in the ‘not real’ America. And I am most proud that during trying times, like an orange [terror] alert, a bad economy or a contentious election, that we as a nation retain our sense of humor.

You can see the way the joke originally aired below:

But according to full video of the event, there’s a chunk missing after the marshmallow Palin joke (between the second and third sentence in the transcript above). Newsbusters brings us the part PBS chopped:

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women [applause before the joke kicks in] — except, of course, those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape kit and 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.

The “rape kit,“ ”gay woman,“ and ”evolution” jokes got cut.

The Washington Post, which first broke the story, talked with one of the event’s executive producers about the editing. According to him, PBS was not trying to shelter the comedian from criticism, nor was it trying to censor the jokes.

“It was not a political decision,” said Peter Kaminsky. “We had zero problems with anything she said.” But because the 90-minute show ran about 19 minutes long during last Tuesday’s taping, “We took a lot out,” he said. “We snipped from everyone.”

You can watch the full edited version of the show, as well as the full unedited version of Fey’s speech, on the PBS website.

Comments (232)

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  • New-American-Saviors
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:14pm

    They don’t want to be scritutinized like NPR. Probably more dependent on Public Funding !

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  • 911Patriot
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:11pm

    How pathetic that you make your living trying to destroy a honest and decent wife, mother and patriot. Does that make you proud? Is this what you believe God intended for your gift of life?

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    • 1911a1
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:47pm

      they don’t believe in God , they all think themselves to be God . they poke fun and ridicule everything American, good and wholesome , like the Palins and you and me , our country is on fire , and as long as Tina and her kind are given awards, air time , and put on pedestals for younger generations to admire and think to be great , our country is surely doomed to be surfs

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  • mike_trivisonno
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:10pm

    Americans grow weary of the political meddling of entertainers and their propaganda-inspired “comedy acts.” It is a tired, old-fashioned conversation from the 1990s and American sensibilities have moved on to more important things like re-founding the nation.

    Many of these empty-vessel entertainers glom onto whatever will make them money and get them attention. Soon, now that the commie power-brokers are being run out of tinsel-town, the clowns will entertain us with patriotic fare. It is all so predictable.

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  • Rightwingredhead
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:09pm

    Odd to me how it is OK to capitalize on the resemblance Fey has to Sarah Palin and make lots of money but she truly has no respect for her morals or values, just the almighty $$$$, those Libs, and they want people to believe “they” are the good guys, they are the charitable ones, unless, of course the target is a Republican or Pro Life Conservative. Why does being pro life mean pro rape???? But yet pro abortion doesn’t mean pro-murder???????

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:44pm

      Fey was not saying that being pro-life is like being pro rape. She was referencing the fact that while Palin was mayor of wasilla, the town would charge sexual assault and rape victims or their insurers the cost of the rape exam kit.

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  • fluxblocker
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:59pm

    They cut it out not because the jokes were offensive but because they just plain sucked. Even the leftards could barely manage a chuckle. A funny joke would be: A horse walks into a bar and the bartender says, “why the long face?” Now that is funny.

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  • KL
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:59pm

    I cant stand her……..she is creepy!!

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  • bglaidlaw
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:59pm

    The total lack of response by the audiance is somewhat telling … perhaps Fey asked for it to be cut … If I had been her, for the sake of my career, I would have.

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  • EPROM
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:57pm

    Yah, funny stuff …and all coming from a woman with a “Bride of Frankenstein” hairdoo.

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  • conservativeme
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:53pm

    Tina Fey can’t even crack a funny joke at a celebration of jokes. Sad . . .

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  • NoMarxist
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:53pm

    How pathetic is a liberal whose claim to fame is personal attacks on good people? Is it any wonder that about the only place honor is still revered is in the military?

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  • Susan Harkins
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:52pm

    ;;yawn;;;

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  • J.C. McGlynn
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:50pm

    The truth is hidden once again and libs say we are the crazies. Isn’t that amazing?

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  • spirited
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:50pm

    Wonder what Mark Twain might say about this.

    “There is no character,
    howsoever good and fine,
    but it can be destroyed by ridicule,
    howsoever poor and witless.
    Observe the ass, for instance:
    his character is about perfect,
    he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals,
    yet see what ridicule has brought him to.
    Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.”
    - Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

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  • LSX
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:47pm

    Geeeeezzzz –

    Her fifteen minutes of fame were over three years ago for crying out loud.

    Dump this piss-poor Behar wannabee…

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  • sim
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:46pm

    well said…
    kudos rush!!!
    http://www.PresidentJackass.com

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  • publiuswarmac9999
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:45pm

    Of course this was cut to protect both Fey and PBS. The heat is on. They know it. And so they have censored anything that could increase the heat and lead to their loss of federal dollars. Hopefully, PBS and NPR have the budgets zeroed.

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  • halfbrain
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:45pm

    was that it?

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  • Noodle
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:43pm

    She’s just another delusional Hollywood type. At least she had the guts to admit by stating that she does not live in the “Real America…”

    I know expect to see commercial sponsorship fo “30 Rock” from George Soros.

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  • Noodle
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:41pm

    She’s just another delusional Hollywood type,out of touch with the world. Hell she mentions it by not living in the “Real America…”

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  • Backpacker
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:37pm

    Who would laugh at this crap?

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  • Backpacker
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:36pm

    Of course PBS wouldn’t have any problem with a progressive cutting down a conservative woman. Just wait until they start begging for my money…

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  • spendthrift
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:36pm

    Hopefully soon PBS won’t be a public funded media group. Just a Soros funded left-wing propagana outlet.

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:03pm

      True.. Defund Defund Defund!

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    • Wilbur D Pig
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 2:07am

      What a shame, now I’ll just have to buy a DVD set of “Anne of Green Gables” so I don’t have to wait for the PBS Fundraiser to watch it. Yeah, I’ll never contribute again either. I am no longer their target demographic, so I really don’t care.

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  • SND97
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:35pm

    evolution? I’ll say to her or anyone, prove evolution is real. There is NO proof whatsoever. No actual proof, the whole monkey line chain thing is nothing, they don’t even have the first link, they thought they did, then POOF..it was proven wrong. SHOW ME THE PROOF scientific world SHOW ME..Now Tina may be a product of evolution.

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    • Deda1
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:41pm

      Tina Fey and any liberal, DemoNazi and looney lefty is the missing link.

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    • shards of narsil
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:55pm

      “evolution? I’ll say to her or anyone, prove evolution is real. There is NO proof whatsoever. No actual proof, the whole monkey line chain thing is nothing, they don’t even have the first link, they thought they did, then POOF..it was proven wrong. SHOW ME THE PROOF scientific world SHOW ME..Now Tina may be a product of evolution.”

      it is entirely folly on my part to try and even talk about this subject on this site, but the evidence for evolution is as overwhelming as any other basic idea in science.

      there is no missing link. the phrase itself is a misnomer based on an understanding of evolution that is over a century old and doesn’t fit with what we know about evolution today.

      also, i could point to any number of different forms of proof but a pretty simple one is that human beings and both species of chimpanzee (regular chimps and bonobos) are 98% identical to us on a genetic level. kenneth miller (who is both a mainstream biologist and a devout catholic btw) fully accepts evolution and rejects any kind of scientific application of creationism/intelligent design.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs1zeWWIm5M

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    • Pnxgld
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:19pm

      @Shards the difference between humans & rodents in less than 12%. So what. Diamonds & graphite are chemically identical but are completely different & made completely diffrent.

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    • dablooz
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:39pm

      Oh, yes, Kenneth Miller … and a youtube link to boot. I guess now the science is setlled. The fossil record shows an explosion of many diverse species around the so-called Cambrian era. We really haven’t changed that much since then. But, if there’s a youtube video, I guess that negates everything and serves as the modern day proof for any theorem. Next.

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:52pm

      shards of narsil

      I share your frustration. Evolution deniers are a scary lot. But I’ll jump in.

      Snd, show me the proof there was no evolution. Do it without citing any revealed text or mentioning any metaphysical being.

      Furthermore, PROVE to me Jesus was real, he died and came back to life. Do that also with the same paremeters of the aforementioned challenge.

      If you bring an idea to the table with no evidence for it whatsoever (ie religion & intelligent design) it can be negated and dismissed without giving reason also. Two can play that game.

      Explain all the fossils, the dinosaurs, cromagnum man, radio carbon dating, the fact that the average human’s height has increased over the last 400 years, and explain why Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” is false. YOu have read it right? Or were you told not to read it by someone who told you evolution was a lie?

      I see

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:59pm

      @dablooz
      “The fossil record shows an explosion of many diverse species around the so-called Cambrian era. We really haven’t changed that much since then.”
      Are you suggesting that human beings existed in the Cambrian era?

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    • flyguync
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 9:22pm

      I would say to these followers of Darwin, did you know he was a racist? The reason for his studies in the area of human origin was to prove that white people were genetically superior to others.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:08pm

      @BUTCHER
      Scary lot? You’re scared of us? God is the one you should fear, not men. You want proof that there was no “evolution”? Do you mean microevolution or macroevolution, or do you deny there is a difference? What the world observes as “evolution” is in reality variation and adaptation. Macroevolution, i.e., the changing of an organism from one genus into another over numerous generations, is unscientific, illogical, and frankly, assinine. It goes against every known biological phenomenon. Your assertion that people have gotten taller over the past 400 years is a red herring. Over the past several thousand years, humans have greatly “devolved” from their original stature potential. What “proof” do I have? Well, none that you’d likely believe, even though it is literally set in stone all around the world, e.g., The Great Pyramid, The Ruins of Greece, The Ruins of Baalbek, numerous undersea ancient monoliths…I could go on and on. I have neither the time nor concern for you to go into a lengthy discourse concerning the creation vs evolution controversy, but I will say this: the evidence for Creation is overwhelming and as plain as the DNA in the nose on your face.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:21pm

      @DABLOOZ
      The so-called “Cambrian Explosion” was the destruction, i.e., DISAPPEARANCE of billions of organisms, not the appearance or emergence of them, which is obvious considering that the fossils that you speak of are found in vast beds which indicates that they were all killed in short order. Your hatred of God has rendered you scientifically crippled.

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    • dablooz
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:16am

      Sorry, no hatred of God here, quite the opposite. I agree with your points, except for your last assumption.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 11:39am

      @DABLOOZ
      I must have misinterpreted your posting. My apologies.

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  • Alvin691
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:33pm

    Censorship! I want the ENTIRE speach out there so poople can see how much of an a$$hat Tina Fay really is.

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    • NickDeringer
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:45pm

      Tina can trash away. They are making Palin into a heroic figure in the eyes o the country for standing up to all the Left-wing bullying.

      Trash on, Tina!! Let us hear the whole speech!!

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    • Annette
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 4:03pm

      You are right..the more they rant and rave, degrade, the more fired up we get to shut their asses back up. COmmies back in the closet…whatever happened to the who treason thingie?

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    • BenDover4Obama
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 6:07pm

      I think Mark Twain would kick her a$$.

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    • mr.awgreenusa
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:16pm

      i could not agree more,

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    • JayCee
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:04am

      I agree.
      Unfortunately the Palins will be facing more of this after Willow Palin’s facebook rant hits the news.

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  • CaptainSpaulding
    Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:29pm

    And they cut Juan Williams for being “hateful”?

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    • RightWrite
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:46pm

      All Americans need to see how racist and prejudice these Leftists are — show the whole thing PBS.

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    • NoMarxist
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:47pm

      Tina Fey doesn’t work for NPR.. If she did, her comments would qualify her for her own show.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:48pm

      Captain, they used Juan‘s comment about muslim’s as a group. See, they think it is OK to go after one person as long as that person is a conservative. Hey Tina you think our government is so bad. Try living in some other countries. They are actually harsh on the individuals (rape cases) and groups (homosexuals) than conservatives in America.

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    • Fletch
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:53pm

      PBS is just a whore to public funding and doesn’t want to rock the boat just now

      the congress critters should defund them now … but they won’t

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:58pm

      Who watches PBS anyway?
      Pretty funny that people of low character always poke fun and berate others that disagree with or threaten them and their goofy little ideas, (like evolution). Yes, Fey does live in “not real America”. I believe they call it California. Or la la land.

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    • Rightwingredhead
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:06pm

      Juan Williams was hateful to Muslims, if he was hateful to Conservatives it would have been fine.

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    • takemout
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:07pm

      The left knows that the NEA is in our cross-hairs. They made a big public blunder in firing juan williams, and they don’t want anymore unwanted publicity. They‘re afraid they’re going to loose their paychecks.

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    • jzs
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:30pm

      It’s disgusting and repugnant the way liberals will ridicule and insult people for no reason! I’d like them to give me a single example of a conservative gratuitously ridiculing a liberal. This just proves again who the real jerks are, as if we needed more proof.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:40pm

      Somebody make fun of Tina’s kid and see how hard she laughs….she is a loser and works with that moonbat Alec Baldwin….I feel sorry for her….Making all that capitalistic $ and winning awards for her “talent” UGH!!!!

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    • Annette
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:43pm

      she is a despicable human being. no offense to humans intended.

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    • JohnK144
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:50pm

      “PBS is just a whore to public funding and doesn’t want to rock the boat just now”

      FLETCH has it right. And the one person they fear wrangling with the most, is Sarah Palin.

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    • Jackson
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 3:53pm

      Here is PBS’s contact address. Benieth is the message I just sent. Please feel free to send your own thoughts. But also, please don’t just copy and paste mine.

      http://www.pbs.org/about/contact/viewer-services/

      You parasitical cowards! Tina Fey was YOUR choice! You may have been able to edit her loathsome rhetoric before it reached the masses, but how can you edit it from those in attendance. Or those they pass it on to! At least have the strength of conviction to be honest in the faces of the Public. Remember those people? Isn’t your name the PUBLIC Broadcast Company? To be myopic in your public presentations is one thing, but to edit and attempt to deceive the PUBLIC is worst. Either air the honest presentation or PUBLICLY denounce it!
      Loathsome!
      Biased!
      Unworthy!

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 4:18pm

      @jackson
      “Isn’t your name the PUBLIC Broadcast Company?”
      For the record, no. Their name is the Public BroadcastING SERVICE.

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    • dchoban
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 4:20pm

      Now I know why I never watch 30 Rock, nor will I start now.

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    • free2bme1961
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 6:35pm

      This was on Yahoo News last month: If you don’t have a Yahoo account; this may have slipped by; If your not a fan of Harry Reid, your gonna love this!

      By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer Jocelyn Noveck, Ap National Writer – Wed Oct 13, 12:56 am ET
      NEW YORK – President Barack Obama has family ties to none other than Sarah Palin, according to the genealogists at Ancestry.com, a discovery the family history site made when looking for connections between political foes.
      And that’s not all — Obama also is apparently related to conservative radio host and relentless critic Rush Limbaugh.
      A genealogist at the Utah-based Ancestry.com, Anastasia Tyler, said Obama and Palin are 10th cousins through a common ancestor named John Smith, a pastor and early settler in 17th-century Massachusetts. Obama is related to Smith through his mother, as is Palin, Tyler said.
      “Smith was against the persecution of the Quakers,” Tyler said in an interview. “He was a very socially conscious man.”
      As for Limbaugh, he’s also a 10th cousin of the president — one time removed — through a common ancestor named Richmond Terrell, who Tyler said was a large landowner in Virginia, also in the 17th century. “His history is a little more nebulous,” Tyler said.
      How do the genealogists come up with this stuff? Tyler said they start by picking the people they’re interested in, then examine their family trees, going back further and further into history, looking for common surnames and locations.
      In the recent project, genealogists looked at the trees of Obama, Palin, and Limbaugh but also a few others, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Fox News pundits Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. They didn’t find anything much with the latter three.
      {Related: How to trace your family tree online]
      But former President George W. Bush? He’s related to both Obama and Palin, the site found. Obama and Bush are 11th cousins through common ancestor Samuel Hinckley, and Bush and Palin are 10th cousins one time removed, also through Hinckley — who, and stay with us now, was John Smith’s father-in-law.
      Ancestry.com has revealed in the past that Obama is related to investor Warren Buffett and actor Brad Pitt. It has also found that Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, is a distant cousin of both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Princess Diana.
      The site isn’t the only source of this sort of celebrity genealogy information — in 2007, Cheney’s wife, Lynne, discovered ancestral ties between former Vice President Dick Cheney and Obama while researching her book. She said the relationship was eighth cousin, though the Chicago Sun-Times traced it as ninth cousins once removed.
      And one other thing from Ancestry.com: It also found that Palin is distant cousins with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter, through John Lathrop, who was exiled to the United States from England for being a pastor of an illegal independent church.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 7:13pm

      I’m a R.A.S.P., i.e., Repulican Against Sarah Palin.

      Please, Palins, go away! If Gov. Palin makes a run for POTUS, it will prove that she is an unpatriotic Obama supporter, because she will have her ass handed to her if she runs, and she has to know it.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 8:47pm

      Tina Oy Fey works for NBC (nothing but crazys) She is a comedian making lots of $ mocking Sarah Palin and her children
      Juan Williams is a journalist
      NPR is for losers

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    • Robert W
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:00pm

      She looks better when she plays Palin.

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    • Robert W
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:13pm

      Were’d she get that hair style? It looks like a flatop from an 80′s rap video…were there mirrors there tina?

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    • mr.awgreenusa
      Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:13pm

      tina was right in her first sentence , she is a liar and an idiot……

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    • BoiseBaked
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:19am

      Maybe somebody should make a joke about that hair and dress… They’re awful… Maybe Tina should have mooched those off of Sarah. One snap out of five for style points.

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    • JayCee
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 7:26am

      We are forced to support this garbage with our taxes.
      Without Sarah Palin, Tina Fey would be just another forgotten SNL hasbeen like…..whatshername.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 7:42am

      Trying to save Fey from herself? We know Palin is popular … the lefty‘s were having a cow last night because Bristol didn’t get kicked off of DWTS … Palins Alaska on TLC had record watching this week…. I think America needs to know just how mean and nasty those like Fey are … NO CENSORSHIP .. let them show their true “color” (RED)!

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    • CYCLONE
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:42am

      Palin is sure easier on the eyes…. love to have a woman like her riding shotgun….

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    • Pericles
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 11:41pm

      ummmm….PBS did not fire Juan Williams, NPR did. The truth hurts doesn’t it.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:38am

      That hair do Tina is sportin’ is hateful … hatefully UGLY

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