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Dancing Producer Responds to Voting Controversy (Free Republic, Jim Robinson in People Magazine!)
People ^ | Friday, November 19, 2010 | Monica Rizzo and Sandra Sobieraj Westfall

Posted on 11/19/2010 4:07:33 PM PST by kristinn

The million-dollar question among Dancing with the Stars fans these days? How did Bristol Palin make it into the season 11 finals?

"She deserves it," DWTS executive producer Conrad Green tells PEOPLE. "And a significant portion of our viewing audience believes that, too."

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Speculation has arisen about whether members of the Tea Party, many of whom strongly support Bristol's mom Sarah Palin, are involved in an organized effort to promote Bristol.

On one conservative Web site, Freerepublic.com, some of the site's 300,000 registered users have recently used discussion threads to encourage votes for Bristol. One asked users to "make liberal heads explode and vote for Bristol" on Nov. 8 to advance her to the semi-finals.

But Jim Robinson, who founded the site, says there is no larger plan at work. "An organized conspiracy? I sincerely doubt that," he told PEOPLE. "The Tea Party's not that organized!"

And Green agrees that there's no stuffing of the virtual ballot-box, saying that the entire process – text votes, call-in votes and email votes – "is all overseen by the Broadcast Standards team, independent of us and the network to make sure that everything is absolutely done scrupulously."

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(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bristol; bristolpalin; dwts; freerepublic; geraldorivera; jimrobinson; jimthompson; monicarizzo; peoplemagazine; sandrawestfall
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To: DaiHuy

“Really who cares? It is the most insipid and banal program on television just short of msnbcbs”

But that is exactly the point. The dumb people who watch it are going to freak out the most if Bristol wins.
Maybe, just maybe they’ll realize that it probably wasn’t a good idea to have the 17th amendment...but I doubt it.


261 posted on 11/20/2010 8:00:10 PM PST by ari-freedom (Obama is now the Groper in Chief)
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To: lonevoice

She also said that she just didn’t have enough time on her hands to sit there online voting multiple times (insinuating FReepers have nothing better to do)....

And YET, she has time to troll FR and memorize the comments....well, except the ones about liberals heads exploding, she said that FReepers said they wanna blow up liberals’ heads “or something like that”.... I can NOT stand her....I have see her on a few times and I really have NO clue who she is why her opinion is so important....


262 posted on 11/20/2010 8:03:30 PM PST by DrewsMum (New TSA slogan: "U can't see London, U Can't see France, until we see your underpants")
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To: lovesdogs

“But like it or not there are people who are learning to vote by watching these shows. “

People who need to learn how to vote from DWTS or American Idol shouldn’t be allowed to vote in a real election.


263 posted on 11/20/2010 8:07:17 PM PST by ari-freedom (Obama is now the Groper in Chief)
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To: mojitojoe; Jim Robinson; onyx; kristinn; hoosiermama; Dr. Scarpetta; Sarah Barracuda; ...

Expect more hits here, Jim ... tonight Geraldo referred to
FreeRepublic.com (said it exactly) in his discussion about the Bristol / DWTS situation .. and, of course, he slaughtered the facts, stating we were an all Palin site (words to that effect), very conservative, and mangled the hill something site, both of whom he attempted to implicate as behind the stunning high Bristol voting ... ROFL!!!

There was a Tea Party official on the segment who said they researched the issue and found no evidence of any such movement to go ballistic voting for Bristol.

:)


264 posted on 11/20/2010 8:16:01 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

Some of the Freeper quotes that Geraldo used were actually hysterical...lol. I don’t know if he realized the quotes were mostly digs at dems or not! Liberals are completely unhinged over this stuff...rotflol!


265 posted on 11/20/2010 8:27:24 PM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: DrewsMum
...she said that FReepers said they wanna blow up liberals’ heads “or something like that”.

I think she was deliberately and disingenuously making it sound like FReepers were advocating violence rather than merely laughing at leftists for being so deranged.

266 posted on 11/20/2010 8:34:21 PM PST by rogue yam
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To: penelopesire; STARWISE

I am laughing because you both watched Geraldo!
LOL.


267 posted on 11/20/2010 8:43:59 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: presently no screen name
Ditto that!!!!♥♥♥
268 posted on 11/20/2010 8:49:32 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: onyx

Came in just before, turned on Fox and there he
and empty head were ... ;)


269 posted on 11/20/2010 8:50:45 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: OwenKellogg

Well done!


270 posted on 11/20/2010 8:51:59 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: STARWISE

Thanks for the update.


271 posted on 11/20/2010 8:53:52 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: onyx

LOL...that is pretty bad, isn’t it? Saturday night and we are watching Whoraldo! Gads...LOL!


272 posted on 11/20/2010 8:54:24 PM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: penelopesire; STARWISE

LOL. Yep, pretty darn sad....LOL.
He was watching football or I would have had FNC on, so now I will have to stay up to see the replay.
UGH.


273 posted on 11/20/2010 9:10:22 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: rogue yam
I think she was deliberately and disingenuously making it sound like FReepers were advocating violence rather than merely laughing at leftists for being so deranged. YEP.
274 posted on 11/20/2010 9:17:38 PM PST by DrewsMum (New TSA slogan: "U can't see London, U Can't see France, until we see your underpants")
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To: Jet Jaguar

;)


275 posted on 11/20/2010 9:24:13 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: onyx

I may be on television. Didn’t particularly want to be on with Geraldo, but, what can I say?


276 posted on 11/20/2010 9:27:18 PM PST by altura
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To: kristinn

How many American Idol threads were there and how come nobody ever accused FreeRepublic of getting someone to win?


277 posted on 11/20/2010 9:29:41 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

It’s a fun thread. And now you’re famous. But they must be picking and choosing because we do have negative people toward Bristol who post.

We also have people who think it’s ‘tacky’ to vote a lot for Bristol. So far, I’ve only voted my 5 phone votes, but Monday, it’s war.


278 posted on 11/20/2010 9:31:41 PM PST by altura
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To: altura

Really!
Well, the replay starts at the top of this hour!
I am staying up to watch it!
I will TIVO!!!


279 posted on 11/20/2010 9:35:42 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: onyx

Hah! Could this be funnier, onyx? Only the Palin’s could arouse this much interest in a dancing competition.


280 posted on 11/20/2010 9:41:04 PM PST by altura
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