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 ...
“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.
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....
“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.
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.
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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!
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.
I am laughing because you both watched Geraldo!
LOL.
Came in just before, turned on Fox and there he
and empty head were ... ;)
Well done!
Thanks for the update.
LOL...that is pretty bad, isn’t it? Saturday night and we are watching Whoraldo! Gads...LOL!
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.
;)
I may be on television. Didn’t particularly want to be on with Geraldo, but, what can I say?
How many American Idol threads were there and how come nobody ever accused FreeRepublic of getting someone to win?
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.
Really!
Well, the replay starts at the top of this hour!
I am staying up to watch it!
I will TIVO!!!
Hah! Could this be funnier, onyx? Only the Palin’s could arouse this much interest in a dancing competition.
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