“Some may argue that exploiting Governor Palin and her family helped bring attention to my low-rated TV show,” Fey writes of 30 Rock, the Emmy-winning NBC sitcom now in its fifth season.

“I am proud to say you are wrong,” she writes. “My TV show still enjoys very low ratings. In fact, I think the Palin stuff may have hurt the TV show. Let’s face it, between Alec Baldwin and me there is a certain fifty percent of the population who think we are pinko Commie monsters.”