Tina greets the crowd at the Mark Twain Prize ceremony.

Tina Fey is my hero.

And it’s not just because she’s brilliant, successful, and can send me into convulsive laughter with a single Liz Lemon-ism.

Tina’s not one to keep quiet about her opinions, especially when it comes to women in the media. As Saturday Night Live‘s first female head writer, she knows a thing or two about fighting for women’s rights.

Enter Sarah Palin.

Tina had a few choice words for her sometimes-doppelganger during her acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, but PBS cut the remarks from their broadcast. Whether or not executives were trying to censor Tina’s political jabs, audiences at home missed out on her kind of awesome outspoken commentary. Continue reading →