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 ...
Many LURKERS also! (like me)
Love your quote Jim. *Anytime* Conservatives land in the pages of the propagandists, it makes liberal heads explode. We’re supposed to be second class citizens and remain quiet!
That People Magazine is lurking on FR, or
That People Magazine is printing quotes from FR threads, or
That People Magazine interviewed Jim about this, or
That People Magazine actually believes it's a TP conspiracy, or
That People Magazine just gave FR a buttload of free advertising, or
That liberal heads really ARE exploding
I know it's the most fun I've had on FR in a long time. Let's FReep the vote next week!
Well, now that you’ve laid it out like that I am LOL too.
Jim’s getting pinged to our DWTS thread on Monday, so the fun really starts then...lol.
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This is ALL your fault, you know? :)
ah yes, love the sound of heads exploding in the morning, hmmm...sounds like a hundred yards of bubble paper......
Ok, I’m in on this too. What to I do? Watch and dial in a number? I don’t text, so how do I vote?
There are a lot of online resources to show what various Tea Parties are really doing. It’s very local, and some are more organized than others.
We thought we were in own little DWTS world. I posted the threads in CHAT, not NEWS...:)
Will do!
Hey! They didn’t call us a “blog”!
Same here. Hardly ever watch the show.
You know, I think you’re right. I might vote ONCE. I doubt seriously that FRpers would waste their time voting several times for Bristol.
I admit, I did want her to survive the first round...but now? I don’t know. Clearly, she’s tired, she wants off, she expected to lose, she’s hanging in there with a popular dance partner.
I think it shows that Americans love an underdog.
But, if Jennifer does “The Time of My Life” I’ll probably vote for her.
Not easy someone her age to do what she’s done.
:)Next he’ll be at the finals with Sarah and Todd.
Found this,
White Powder Sent To ‘Dancing With The Stars’
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/entertainment/25859413/detail.html
Is that Bristol’s number?
We are having too much fun:)
Thanks mewzilla.
Absolutely plus she has very little fan base because she has been off the scene except for bad press.
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