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 ...
3 separate lines, 5 calls per line.... results in 15 votes.
It’s so easy, even a dem could do it. ;>)
These mouth breathing morons amaze me.
Hilarious!! I love it. I bet JR was laughing when they contacted him about a conspiracy.
very cute.
I'M WELCOME!
Nobody puts Bristol in the corner!
fr cutting edge pop cultre bump! lol
Yes it is!
I've loved voting PALIN these past weeks and apparently, millions of others do, too.
Thanks to Dr. Scarpetta for the great DWTS thread, and to Jim Robinson for his big backyard where we get to play every day. ";^)
Jim Thompson and his legendary site are back in the news yet again!
Long live JT & FR!!!
LOL!!!!! GOOD ONE!
“300,000 users” Shouldn’t that read, 300,000 bible clinging armed users? LOL
I’ve never seen American Idol, DWTS, X-Factor, Survivor or any of these so-called reality shows. Needless to say, I don’t watch a lot of TV. :)
I hope the best of futures for Bristol and her son but I have absolutely no interest in these shows.
Oh, I don’t read “People” mag, either!
Ok, only 299,997 users now, er, 299,996 and counting down.
Cute!
3000,00 armed to the teeth bitterly clinging users!
I think a ton of it is Bristol being the underdog. She is really cute and determined. I had never watched DWTS,except for when Emmit Smith won, and once when Delay was on and had never voted. Now I use every phone in the house.
LOL! Don’t zot me bro! ;)
Great quote by the way!
My goodness...this is “hugh and series!” ROFLOL. How hysterical can people get about fact that more voted for one person over another as a winner on a stupid dancing show? Like, duh, didn’t all Brandi’s followers have just as much opportunity to call? Maybe they didn’t feel motivated enough to bother? Or, maybe they just can’t dial a number on their phones? Or maybe their phone calls were blocked, LOL. /sarc. It is unbelievable that there are people really upset about this, as if it were going to affect their lives in ANY way.
That's exactly my stance. The only reason I opened this thread was because of the F.R. mention.
“Oorah!”
;>)
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