Spoiler Alert for 'Dancing with the Stars' & Bristol Palin.

[AnArmyVeteran]

Okay, I admit I watched Dancing with the Stars. I have friends who watch it and I also began taking ballroom dance classes 4 years ago. So I enjoy dance as well as most of the other performing arts.

But there was a huge injustice on the Tuesday night result's show. Bristol Palin, who has had zero accomplishments in her life, zero talents and is only on the program because her mother is Sarah Palin, just made it to the season finale over Brandy, who was infinitely more talented than Bristol. While I give anyone credit for going outside of their comfort zone, trying something new or confronting one's fears, Bristol should have been voted off the show weeks ago. But right wing tea baggers keep voting for her regardless of her complete lack of talent. Doesn't this sound familiar? Right wingers seem to love the least qualified and even brain damaged people because they voted for baby Bush twice, they drooled over the 'nincompoop' Sarah Palin and then in the last election they voted for characters you would normally see in a circus side show full of deranged freaks.

Right wingers are terrified of qualified, talented and intelligent people. They routinely savagely attack anyone with a brain. They attack scientists, academians, scholars, philosophers, experts and even anyone who went to college. It's almost like they want to destroy our government by voting for the worst candidates thereby ensuring government will get worse.

This is the first time in 'Dancing with the Stars' history that someone as untalented as Bristol Palin made it to the final show. Tea bagging dunces have turned that show into a complete joke. I bet the producers of the show will think twice about who they pick in the future. But then again, since they are only in it for the money maybe this is what they had in mind.

I don't know how many are aware, but each contestant on the show is paid a whopping $200,000 to be a contestant. Bristol Palin would have to scale and gut fish for 50 years to make that much in Wasilla. Halfway through the show Bristol said she was homesick and it sounded like she was going to follow in her mom's steps and quit the show. But then within a week she decided to move to LA and buy a house there. I guess she is like her mother after all. She got a taste of fame just like her mom did and then decided to cash in.

Like mother, like daughter.

A family of grifters...

[blue neen]

1. I quit watching the show 3 weeks ago for this very reason.

DWTS is now a total farce. When you think about how talented Nicole Scherzinger is and the fantastic dancing that we saw in the spring...well, let's just say the show has lost all of its entertainment value.

[napi21]

2. I've NEVER watched that show. Just not my thing, but I'm actually thinking

we should form an anti Bristol votingblock for next week. I don't hold it gainst Bristol for trying this gig. If I could make a fast $200,000, you can bet I'd b right there! I just hate to see the TBers win & gloat on another fraud!

[AnArmyVeteran]

4. There's a site called 'Votefortheworst' but I'm not sure if DWTS is one of the shows they target.

[John Kerry VonErich]

23. yep they do, check their site

nt

[tblue37]

3. It seems to me the show has basically killed its golden egg laying goose

with this casting stunt. The show is very right wing anyway, what with casting Tom Delay, Tucker Carlson, and now Bristol Palin. They also had that Republican country singer named Sarah who could barely move, but who was kept on (until she chose to drop out because of a divorce) by right wingers being encouraged by their pastors to vote for that nice Christian Republican girl.

Many people who do not even watch the show apparently are being organized by RW websites, including one run by a woman who works for SarahPAC, to use multiple email accounts to vote hundreds of times, essentially in voting tidal waves. It is really rather painful to watch the poor girl clunk around the stage the way she does, followed by a tongue bath from the judges.

I have never watched the show very often, though I do love ballroom dance, but I used to enjoy it from time to time. Now I can't even bear to watch a minute of it, after seeing her dance so very badly and then get praised so lavishly.

And once again Sarah gets free prime time face time on TV, publicity for her future political runs.

The show deserves to drop like a stone in the ratings because of this crap.

[AnArmyVeteran]

8. I agree with you. I hope this stunt hurts their bottom line.

I'm not sure if a Palin is capable of feeling shame, but Bristol should feel embarrassed getting lower scores from the judges and then staying on the show while extremely good dancers with perfect scores get thrown off. In a way, I'd almost like to see Bristol win now just to drive a stake through the heart of the show and destroy it. If she won from all the tea baggers' votes the show will have zero credibility and most of the audience would stop watching it.

Our political system has turned into a complete joke and the tea baggers will end up making this show a joke too.

You're correct about all the right wingers that have been on the show. Have you noticed how almost all of them lack any rhythm of creativity? In most cases they were eliminated in the first few weeks.

[AnArmyVeteran]

9. I agree with you. I hope this stunt hurts their bottom line.

I'm not sure if a Palin is capable of feeling shame, but Bristol should feel embarrassed getting lower scores from the judges and then staying on the show while extremely good dancers with perfect scores get thrown off. In a way, I'd almost like to see Bristol win now just to drive a stake through the heart of the show and destroy it. If she won from all the tea baggers' votes the show will have zero credibility and most of the audience would stop watching it.

Our political system has turned into a complete joke and the tea baggers will end up making this show a joke too.

You're correct about all the right wingers that have been on the show. Have you noticed how almost all of them lack any rhythm of creativity? In most cases they were eliminated in the first few weeks.

[Blue_In_AK]

39. The girl seems to have no shame.

She has to know deep down inside that she didn't do anything to deserve being in the position she is now. She has to know that cheating has occurred. Maybe she thinks she's that special, but she really isn't -- and neither is her mom. I don't understand why people fall for this.

[onehandle]

5. 'A family of grifters'

...is piloting our social and political discourse.

What does this say about us?

sigh...

[cilla4progress]

7. I'm looking forward to when it catches up with them...

assuming it does.

Love your avatar (Nancy) by the way. Glad she's getting her due! She will go down in history as a great American hero - no doubt about it!

[JohnnyBoots]

32. It reads like the first couple chapters of bad Stephen King novel...

[RamboLiberal]

6. Tea Partiers are suspected of gaming the balloting system

LA Times has article. I just posted here on GD.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9580906

But critics charge Palin supporters found a way to exploit the network's e-mail voting system, primarily through creating a flood of false e-mail addresses that allowed them to grossly over-vote. The show, which won't reveal details about its voting results, permits only five votes per phone line and five per e-mail address.

ABC officials stood by its results Wednesday. Though the network doesn't require users to authenticate e-mail addresses, there are safeguards in place to prevent such fraud. (The Times agreed not to divulge the nature of that system for security reasons.)

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-1118-bristol-palin-20101118,0,3641255.story

That side is certainly known for this kind of skullduggery.

[AnArmyVeteran]

10. 'skullduggery'? But, but, but, aren't they 'family values christians'? LOL

I wish the charade the right wing has been playing for 25 years will come to an end. I find it astounding they have been able to get away with their with their ridiculous claims for so long. If the MSM did its job the republican party would be a third party by now.

[Horse with no Name]

36. The same crap that lost Adam Lambert American Idol. n/t

[Quantess]

11. I like your take on it.

This morning I heard (light hearted) radio talk show DJs talking about the allegations of dishonest voting, which led to some callers getting all political and sounding like angry teabaggers on a happy, lightweight morning show. So they stopped taking calls and shifted the topic.

Now I'm starting to wish I had been watching this season. About a year ago when I was temporarily disabled and couch-bound, I flipped channels and started watching it. It's an entertaining show, and I can see why people like it.

[Angry Dragon]

12. The teabaggers might have hurt Bristol

If she would have left some weeks ago people would have said that she tried her best and did fine. Now people will always look at her as being part of a rigged charade. Win or not this will haunt her. The teabaggers screwed up again.

[K8-EEE]

13. In a way I hope she "wins" over Jennifer Grey

It kind of shows people how these teabaggers who want Palin for President don't care at all about who is the BEST FOR THE JOB.....it's an insane cult!

[LostinNY]

14. I am in no way defending a Palin,

But it's seems to me the whole show is unfair because people like Jennifer Grey and Brandy-- I've seen them dance Professionally, so how is that fair to put them up against unprofessional dancers? And in a way a lot of it has nothing to do with dancing, just a large fan base. I haven't watched since season 1 when the woman from General Hospital won, and heard a couple of men say she couldn't dance but they liked her in playboy. How is it even a dance competition? I like dancing so even though, yes, there are more important things going on in the world, everyone needs a guilty pleasure but the show was a disappointment to me.

[live love laugh]

37. Bristol is untalented and cannot dance. It's a dance show. She should be gone. nt

[AndyTiedye]

15. I'd Much Rather Dance Under the Stars than Watch "Dancing With the Stars"

[wisteria]

16. I had a older friend tell me tonight that he will not be watching this program anymore.

And, he is a nonpolitical person, who can see for himself that Palin was not qualified to be in the finals.

[Liquorice]

17. It is sort of a popularity contest really. I only watch it sporadically, but everyone

seems to know what is going on--that Bristol is being kept in the competition because of her mom and politics. There are a lot of reasons why people vote for a person to stay on that show, however, and dancing has never been the only reason. I do hope Jennifer Gray wins because I happen to like her the best. :-)

[nonconformist]

18. I love DWTS and I'm not afraid to admit it.

And I agree with everything you just wrote.

I was tweeting my ass off after the results show I was so pissed, and saying (in 140 characters or less) basically what you are saying. Should their support, rabid, BLIND support, for the least talented person who cannot perform well be any surprise to us? Not to mention you have these conservative websites encouraging their members to vote for her, and leaving instructions, and telling them they don't even have to watch the show, just vote.

I watch shows like DWTS for an escape, I definitely don't need politics on that show. People like Tucker Carlson and DeLay were out very early their seasons (I believe Tucker was out first on his), so even the occasional right winger contestant hasn't ruined the show for me. Until now. Now we have to deal with Sarah Palin being all folksy and shit on every episode, not to mention the worst dancer to make the finals in the history of the show. I've never seen anything like that happen before. Sure, there has been the occasional celebrity that went out before their time, but in general the finals are usually comprised of the best dancers over the course of the show. Yanno, like it's supposed to be.

If they cast another right winger next year, I will definitely not be watching, and I've watched every season and vote every week.

[EC]

19. They did it to American Idol too

so why didn't Dancing have a way of making sure people only voted once? And why doesn't Mom Palin get out there and say something like "heh, we don't need to cheat...Bristol can win all by herself."? :rofl:

[live love laugh]

38. And look how Idol has plummeted in the ratings. DWTS will follow. nt

[Lugnut]

20. We watch the show.

DH and I enjoy music and ballroom dancing so it's been a fun thing for us to watch. If the trophy goes to that no-talent clod who has skated through because her fans are cheaters, we are finished. The History Channel and Food Network both have good lineups on Monday nights.

[MarthaM]

21. I really don't get the outrage over this

Every competitor on there has a fan base, and I bet they all do the same thing. And it's always been a popularity contest. If they wanted the person who is truly the best dancer to win, they wouldn't let the public vote and would just leave it up to the judges. In every single season of Dancing, somebody who is a better dancer got booted off while someone who didn't dance that well got to stay.

[4lbs]

25. The only season I watched in which the truly best dancer won it all was the season that had

Kristi Yamaguchi.

She earned a lot of 29s and 30s from the judges, and was clearly head and shoulders above everyone else that season. I think her lowest score was a 26. That's how good she was.

If she didn't win I think everyone at the time would have been yelling "fix!", even the ones that voted for her opponent(s).

EDIT: Note for those that don't watch the show, a maximum score from the judges for a dance routine is 30, which is the sum of 10 from each of three judges.

[John Kerry VonErich]

22. It's not just teabaggies

Vote for the worst has a grip as well

[Raine]

24. I quit watching during the first season when

I realize it was not based on talent in dancing but on those who could get their fan base to spend hours calling in. x(

[Vinnie From Indy]

26. Gee, i wonder how many threads can possibly be devoted to Bristol Palin?

Is this DU or did I stumble into the "Bristol Palin Zone".

You people are exactly what is wrong with America. Cheeers for being such superficial, unthinking, easily distracted morons and thanks for sharing your idiocy with DU! Cheers!

[astral]

27. grifters?

Gimme a break.

[TheUnspeakable]

28. this paragraph-so true- k&r

"Right wingers are terrified of qualified, talented and intelligent people. They routinely savagely attack anyone with a brain. They attack scientists, academians, scholars, philosophers, experts and even anyone who went to college. It's almost like they want to destroy our government by voting for the worst candidates thereby ensuring government will get worse"

[AnArmyVeteran]

29. And they have proclaimed from shore to shore they want Obama & our country to fail.

[Metric System]

30. My aunt isn't very political and she's absolutely pissed that Bristol has gone this far. I think

this is going to back-fire on the Teabaggers voting en masse for her simply because of her last name and her mother's politics.

[queenjane]

31. The Palins as mirror-image of the "Real America"

"Right wingers are terrified of qualified, talented and intelligent people. They routinely savagely attack anyone with a brain. They attack scientists, academians, scholars, philosophers, experts and even anyone who went to college. It's almost like they want to destroy our government by voting for the worst candidates thereby ensuring government will get worse."

Truer words were never spoken, and they describe all but 3 of my relatives, many of my co-workers, and 85% of the residents of my town. They hate educated people, liberals, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, homosexuals, free thinkers, athiests. Wave a book in their direction, they recoil like Nosferatu from the dawn. Use a word they don't understand, and they become defensive and hostile. Right now, I am persona non grata in my family because I'm "uppity" (the Obama sticker on my car probably doesn't help), and most of the women I work with avoid me as if I have Ebola (not that they'd know what that was).

These people LOVE Palin, adore the whole trailer trash family. You think they won't vote for her and her hillbilly clan come November 2012? Don't kid yourself.

[AnArmyVeteran]

33. The right wing is deadlier than even Ebola.

Between the gun fanatics, Palinites, pro-lifers, fundies, ignorant, gullible and just plain stupid people in the right wing anything is possible. They couldn't care less about our country. All that matters to them is getting people just like them elected to office. In every election republicans automatically get 10% of their vote from gun nuts, 10% from religious fanatics and 10% from pro-lifers, ensuring they either win or are competitive in most elections. It's very dangerous to the survival of our country when such a large segment of the population is so incredibly stupid and ignorant. Thomas Jefferson knew the importance of a well informed and educated electorate that he said it was the best defense against tyranny. As the stupidity, gullibility and ignorance of our population increases the greatest threat to our country won't be from any external enemy. It will be destroyed from within.

Speaking of Ebola, those on the right wing are virtually the same as that deadly disease. The results of their proud ignorance will continue to act like a deadly virus eating away at our country's organs until it too will be bleeding from its eyes, nose and mouth until it takes its last breath.

That will be the legacy of the tea party and the low calibre people who are so easily led by the corporate dog whistles they hear that motivate each one without thought, without question and without reason. And everyone on the right who mindlessly work to destroy everything it took 200+ years to create will all be responsible for the demise of the once great United States of America. No amount of rational thought, common sense or reality can alter their course into oblivion. Unfortunately, as they all stampede over a cliff they will take the rest of us with them.

[Playinghardball]

34. There’s no doubt that Jabba the Hutt

could dance a whole lot better than Bristol Palin…

[live love laugh]

35. My mother was boiling mad. She's watched the show for years and says she won't again.

My boss even mentioned it in a meeting the next morning which is how I found out that Brandy was booted.

I was appalled.

You are right. They do vote in the least qualified people. They make the best puppets.