The Palins, Margaret Cho and the Leftiverse

"My mom did not 'force' me to go on DWTS"
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Leftists live in an alternate universe where lies and rumors become their "truth," and the laws of nature and even common sense don't apply as they do in the real universe. In the liberal "leftiverse," rumors, especially those about All Things Palin, are accepted as Gospel, while the Gospels themselves are questioned by many of the leftiverse's inhabitants. For example, "dirt" on Sarah Palin and her family in the leftiverse media water cooler doesn't settle at the bottom; it percolates very rapidly to the top. It begins on gossip websites and moonbat blogs, both of which are fueled by Haterade, and is quickly sucked upwards to major media outlets such as CBS and CNN.

Case in point: The gossip websites were all abuzz last week with a rumor that Bristol's onetime fellow DWTS contestant Margaret Cho had repeated on her personal blog, and in no time at all the rumor had become "Marquee" news at CNN:

"I heard from someone who really should know (really should seriously know the dirt really really) that the only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced her to do it," Cho wrote on her blog on November 29.

"Sarah supposedly blames Bristol harshly and openly (in the circles that I heard it from) for not winning the election, and so she told Bristol she ‘owed’ it to her to do DWTS so that ‘America would fall in love with her again’ and make it possible for Sarah Palin to run in 2012 with America behind her all the way."

To sum things up, Cho explained, "Instead of being supposedly 'handicapped' by the presence of her teen mom daughter, now Bristol is going to be an 'asset' - a celebrity beloved for her dancing."

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"Keep in mind there are other forces at work here and it’s not just for the love of dance," she noted, adding, "Now I am scared I am going to wake up with a decapitated moose head in my bed."

There was just one major problem with this rumor: It wasn't true. But in the leftiverse, facts are not checked for veracity, and no one who passed this lie on bothered to ask Bristol -- not Cho, not the gossip reporters, not the lamestream major media outlets. The lie became a rumor, and the rumor became "news." This is commonplace in the leftiverse, the same alternate reality in which Tina Fey's joke that "Sarah Palin could see Russia from her house" was attributed to Gov. Palin herself, not the SNL character.

Bristol Palin set the record straight on Facebook late Saturday night:

I was somewhat taken aback to read about me in a blog by my friend and fellow contestant, Margaret Cho. In a post she called "Pistol Whipped" she wrote that "the only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced her to do it. Sarah supposedly blames Bristol harshly and openly . . . for not winning the election,and so she told Bristol she "owed" it to her to do DWTS . . . ." Let me shamelessly steal from Saturday Night Live: "Really, Margaret? Really?"

I will give my friend credit for creativity, and extra points for getting so many "facts" wrong in so few sentences. Let me be blunt: my mom did not "force" me to go on DWTS. She did not ask me either. The show approached me. I thought about it. I made the decision. After first worrying for me in terms of being exposed to those who hate us for what we believe in, both my mom and my dad became my number one supporters. Anyone who watched the show could tell I performed better, and I felt better about myself, when they were in the audience. I wanted to make them both proud, but politics had nothing to do with it. Loving my parents had everything to do with it.

It saddens me that people would think that my mom would "blame" me for anything that occurred in the 2008 election--much less "harshly" and "openly." I think that canard (there, I said it again), has been floating around since then also. I will set the record straight, though my mom already did in her bestselling book "Going Rogue"; there were a number of reasons President Obama won in 2008, but the primary reason was that the economy was starting to falter and the majority of voters thought Obama could do a better job than my mom and John McCain. It turns out, two years later, the majority of voters were wrong, but we can talk about that another time. The point is, I seriously doubt anyone who considers herself a student of American politics truly believes I impacted even one vote in that election.

There you have it. Why do I want to set the record straight? Because it is this type of hurtful and false narrative that people promote to make my mom look bad. For 20 years my mom had my back--and for the rest of my life I will have hers.

To my friend Margaret Cho, if you ever have a question, call me girlfriend. Don't ever rely on "sources" who claim to know me or my family. You will be taken every time.

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Bristol has learned, as her mom learned from the School of Slings and Arrows, to quickly shoot down these lies from the leftiverse before they take hold in the real one. If Cho, who has been viciously attacking Bristol's mom since long before she met The Pistol on DWTS, had only shown her new friend the consideration and common decency any real friend has for another by going to Bristol to check out the rumor before going public with it on her blog, a Facebook post by the 20-year-old Palin daughter would not have been necessary. But in the leftiverse politics trumps all, even friendship. Cho is the kind of "friend" that will run a sword through Bristol to try to get to Sarah, her intended target. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

h/t: Cubachi

- JP

Congratulations, Bristol; You're a winner.

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Let us just say right off the bat that Jennifer deserves her DWTS win. Of course she is a ringer (having dance professionally in a movie), and the producers over-hyped her physical pain issues, but that doesn't change the fact that she was the best dancer of all the contestants. Kyle appears to be a great guy, and he's a fine performer.

But Bristol, you were a big winner tonight in your own right. You handled yourself well in a new world that must have seemed very strange to you at first. You were gracious tonight to the trophy winners, and we can see that you captured the hearts and earned the respect of your partner, fellow contestants, the judges and millions of viewers, a great many of whom are now your fans.

By going on the show, you made some incredible connections and you have a whole bunch of new friends you probably never imagined that you would even meet in your wildest dreams just a few months ago. Your determination, hard work and unconquerable spirit have served you well.

We remember when Levi first started his "Ricky Hollywood" schtick. He was the one who was supposedly going to be the "star." We recall him flitting around L.A. while while you were acting responsibly -- raising your son, furthering your education and working a yeoman office job. Well, look who became the real star! Levi, trapped by his own lies, was used by your mom's political enemies and then discarded when he was of no further use to them. He's a "nowhere man," but you, Bristol, in a twist of delicious irony, stand on the threshold of a promising future with the possibilities of endorsements, book contracts and TV show offers, according to the buzz in the entertainment world.

It's great to see you gain self confidence by "coming out of your shell," but please don't ever change any of the things about yourself which make you so endearing and such an inspiration. Taken together, they are called "good character," and you seem to have it in your DNA. You appear to have inherited many of the best qualities of your parents, but, as they say, "God bless the child who's got her own." And you've got your own.

Congratulations, Bristol! Bravo Zulu.

- JP

Dana Loesch: Left Goes Texas-Cheerleader-Mom on Bristol in DWTS

They finally hit that level of no-shame desperation
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Dana Loesch, who danced competitively as a young girl growing up, recalls "those hair-sprayed school days" in a Big Journalism opinion piece. Loesch writes that the flashback was triggered when she learned that Bristol Palin had received death threats for making it to the finals on “Dancing with the Stars”:

Dude, I thought. They finally hit that level of no-shame desperation. The left has gone all Texas cheerleader mom on Bristol Palin.

Sally Quinn rah-rah’s this outrage and her latest column reads more like dictation from a stage mom running down the Palins on behalf of liberalism.

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I can’t tell you how much this cracks me up. There’s this story occurring right now in my hometown about massive questions surrounding voter fraud – and how the political dynasty here bucked the city board of elections to hire its security firm to police the polls in a city where dead people turn up all like “Thriller” on election day – but NO. The tea party must be cheating on a television reality show about dancing!

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A dude shot his television because she advanced to the finals. Because she’s getting death threats (two things which Quinn conveniently left out of her column. I guess that’s commonplace in the competitions she watches.) I want Bristol Palin to win because the left is so demonstrably bigoted, so prejudiced, so hateful, they’ve attacked this girl and said she faked her pregnancy, they’ve attacked her for being a teenage mother, for being a teenage mother who kept her baby, for running down every single choice she’s made in the public spotlight – and not in the spotlight by her choice, mind you. The left bears such a hatred for her mother that they’ve been gunning for Bristol Palin long before she was cast on “Dancing with the Stars,” and long before Sally Quinn turned a more light-hearted Annie Wilkes on her in a column. Progressives have been holding “Vote Against Bristol” parties. I hope the right goes shamelessly ACORN on DWTS voting. Apparently, it matters more to the left than actual for-real voting.

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- JP

Paul Kengor: Texting for Bristol Palin

Bristol had now given the left two reasons to hate her
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Political Science professor and author Paul Kengor writes at The American Spectator about Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin and the sanctity of life:

As Bristol trots to victory after victory, the pressure cooker that is liberal America rises and rises and rises, boiling over with customary ferocity.

What's really going on here? Let's cut to the chase: The roots of this indecent, unhealthy rage by liberals is -- first and foremost -- a lashing out against Bristol and her mother for the political/cultural sin of standing, unwaveringly, for unborn human life. That stance also explains why liberal women in particular despise both Bristol and the mother who gave her life. The Palins' devotion to the pro-life life infuriates pro-choice women.

I'll never forget the moment Sarah Plain first walked onto that stage with John McCain. The initial salvo had already been fired, not because of anything Palin said but because of what she had done. As far as liberal women were concerned, Palin had already drawn a line in the sand when she chose to give birth to a child pre-diagnosed with Down syndrome, choosing to do what some 90% of women don't do when given that diagnosis.

Even more galling, Palin, in one fell swoop, thereby decapitated the entire pro-choice narrative.

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Their response has been pure vitriol.

The most lasting manifestation of that, in my mind, was shown by the downright mean "Retarded Republican Babies for Sarah Palin" T-shirts that compassionate liberals were selling on the web during the 2008 campaign. The shirts featured a little GOP elephant blowing a balloon. They were a slap at the face of Palin's innocent little Down's child, Trig.

What had Trig done wrong? Wasn't he deserving of sympathy? Not to the enraged and deranged. To them, Trig was Sarah Plain's child -- the product of a misbegotten choice. He merited contempt.

Alas, that's where Bristol comes in. She, too, being a child of Sarah Palin, is disliked by the left by her very birthright. But then, however, she mushroomed their resentment to nuclear levels when, she, too, committed the cardinal sin of choosing life.

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- JP

How The Old Media Constantly Undermines Sarah Palin

- by Warner Todd Huston
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Most media-watching conservatives have simply been flabbergasted at how the Old Media establishment has so neatly come together to destroy Sarah Palin. The Internet has been abuzz with examples of this attack on Sarah since she was chosen by John McCain to be her number two during the campaign for the 2008 presidential election. Every day there is a new example of it and here is yet another one.

This time it was penned by a "TV critic" for the Washington Post named Lisa de Moraes. De Moraes is well known for constantly injecting left-wing asides into her work and her Nov. 19 attack on the Palins is no exception.

She misled her readers (all 20 of them, I'm sure) right off the bat with her snotty headline, "Sarah Palin tries to lure Bristol's huge 'DWTS' audience to her far less popular TLC reality series."

What is with this "her far less popular" epithet? This claim is not based in logic.

De Moraes went on with her accusatory rhetoric.

Sarah Palin hopes to lure her daughter Bristol's 20 million viewers to her own, far less popular, reality TV series this coming Sunday:

"Ah yes...Bristol-the-diva! Silly critics! See her diva-ish-ness Sunday, 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' 2 learn truth, before assuming. Thanks & enjoy!" Sarah Palin tweeted Thursday afternoon.

Of course her every word is but hatemongering, left-wing spin not based on any real truthful analysis of TV. After all, anyone with a basic grasp of the statistics of TV would understand that her sniping was simply not based in reality.

First of all the 20 million viewers that Dancing With the Stars gets are not “daughter Bristol's 20 million viewers.” They are the viewers of the show that Bristol happens to be appearing on for this one season. So, de Moraes’s first snark is not based in truth.

Secondly, Sarah’s Tweet was but a good-natured poke at her own daughter, the sort of ribbing every healthy family indulges with each other. Sure it was an advertisement for her own TLC show, but critic de Moraes is more interested in imputing a darker meaning to the good-natured Tweet: jealousy.

The simple fact of the matter is that TLC’s cable channel does not attract the sort of viewing numbers that any of the old three TV networks attract. So Palin's TLC show could never achieve the numbers that Dancing With the Stars or practically any other network TV show garners.

According to Nielson, for instance, the number of TV households across the country stood at 114.5 million for the 2008-2009 season and the big three appears on all of them. As it stands now, ABC, CBS and NBC rarely get less than an average of twenty million viewers a night of all shows combined on their network in primetime and Dancing got nearly 20 million last week all by itself.

For its part TLC appears in fewer homes than the big three. According to TLC the cable channel appears in 99 million American homes. For those counting that’s a difference of some 15 million fewer homes than the big three.

Another way to compare: for the week of Nov. 8 the top rated non-sports show was Dancing with the Stars with nearly 20 million viewers. Yet the top rated non-sports cable show was Nick@Nite's Spongebob Squarepants with just a bit over six million viewers. Cable simply doesn't come close to the viewers the big three networks get.

De Moraes tried to pretend she was a real critic by adding this:

While Sarah Palin's new TLC reality series attracted TLC's biggest series-debut audience ever, that amounted to only 5 million viewers -- a tiny crowd compared to the 20-million-ish who have been watching this season of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" on which her daughter has made it all the way to the finals. Because, no matter what people might say about cable TV taking over the universe, there' s still nothing like a broadcast network for reaching a gigantic number of people.

Notice how de Moraess is trying to have it both ways? In one breath she is saying that Palin’s show is “far less popular” yet on the other saying that a cable show can’t possibly get the same numbers as a network TV show. So, even as she admits that trying to compare a cable audience to a broadcast TV audience is absurd, she still rests her entire snarky point on imagining that Sarah’s show is “far less popular” than Dancing With the Stars.

Still, Sarah Palin's Alaska brought 5 million viewers for its debut episode, a smashing success for TLC. Even wth that success, for de Moraes to try to compare Dancing with Palin's TLC show is idiotic. It's apples to oranges… or apples to grizzlies at least. The fact is Sarah Palin’s show could be the most popular show on cable and still not get the numbers that the big three get. “Popularity” isn’t the proper measuring stick and de Moraes knows it.

So, what do we have here? We have a supposed TV critic misleading readers into thinking that Palin's TLC show is “far less popular” than the show her daughter appears on, we get a TV critic discounting the massive numbers of 5 million viewers Palin did get by presenting that stat as somehow incidental when it is nothing short of amazing, and we get a TV critic trying to paint the momma grizzly as somehow jealous of her cub's success on Dancing.

This "TV column" is not a reporting on TV. It is a ham-handed, cynical attempt to mislead readers into thinking ill of Sarah Palin, painting her in a bad light, and misconstruing the facts in the attempt.

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Warner Todd Huston is editor of Publius' Forum and a contributor to Texas for Sarah Palin as well as Big Government, Right Wing News, and a number of other websites.

Ron Futrell: Is This About DWTS or Something More?

"No duh. It’s a popularity contest."
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Ron Futrell at Big Journalism is enjoying the meida hysteria over the success of Bristol Palin on ABC "Dancing With the Stars." He finds it "much more entertaining than the show could ever be":

Wherever you turn there are comments about how horrible it is that Bristol is winning this “competition.” Breaking news here, DWTS is not a real show, nothing real about it. It’s fabricated to get female viewers for ABC and it’s working much better than I ever thought it would.

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No duh. It’s a popularity contest.

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The vitriol is everywhere. This from the Orlando Sentinel, Chan Lowe, editorial cartoonist, “The Tea Party wing nuts, still excited about screwing up the country with the elections earlier this month, are now overloading ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ There can be no other answer.” Yep. Wing nuts win again.

Like Sarah’s show on TLC, the DWTS’ ratings are going through the roof. Wing nuts win again, while the incorrectly named “progressives” sit and stew in their misery knowing that one of their bastions of liberalism (prime time network programming) has been invaded by the enemy. I say invite Ed Schultz next season and let’s see how he does. See if his three viewers call in to vote for him. Maybe Overstuffed Eddie could show up on Skating With the Stars coming up soon on ABC.

The crew on Good Morning America was booing and hissing when it was mentioned the following morning that Bristol knocked off Brandy to make it to the finals. Seriously, you could hear the booing and hissing and Robin Roberts even referred to it. I don’t expect serious journalism from GMA and my low expectations are always met.

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The activist old media shell game. Europe is broke, America is broke, our President refuses to see the threat of Muslim extremists (what is “jihad?”), and the media ignores the building wave on the internet that asks serious questions about Obama’s resume, and we get a Royal Wedding and a “Dancing With The Stars” “controversy.”

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- JP

Why People are voting for Bristol on DWTS

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Guess it never occurs to the leftists, drunk as they are on Haterade, that people are voting for Bristol on DWTS because they LIKE her. Watch mediacrat Steffy get schooled by the experts:


- JP

Quote of the Day (November 15, 2010)

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Carrie Ann Inaba, DWTS judge, to People Magazine:

"Bristol Palin is somebody that I think most of Middle America and regular people can relate to. A lot of people come up to me and say, 'I want to be on Dancing with the Stars. Why don't they have a regular-people version?' And I feel like that's what Bristol Palin is. She's a regular girl with normal problems and normal issues, and I think a lot of people look at her and see themselves. I think the Bristol Palin phenomenon is amazing. I feel like she's very relatable to the average person. She's non-pretentious, very relaxed, and sort of non-affected by anything in this dance competition right next to all these amazing celebrities."

- JP

Gov. Palin on Freedom Watch Tonight

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Judge Andrew Napolitano's "Freedom Watch" program is not just for weekends anymore. Fox Business has decided that da Judge is ready for prime time, and "Freedom Watch" will air each weeknight at 7 PM Texas Time starting tonight. Sarah Palin will help Napolitano kick off the new schedule, as she's already recorded her guest spot for tonight's show. Now she's flying to LA LA Land to be on the front row for Bristol's appearance on DWTS.

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Quote of the Day (September 28, 2010)

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Kelly Ann Carroll:

"I’m glad DWTS went to the video tape and cleared up what many in the press thought was the booing of Sarah Palin. If they had just watched past those 25 seconds of the show they would have realized that the booing was clearly for what the audience thought was low scores for Jennifer Grey. And when Sarah was interviewed the crowd cheered for her."

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DWTS pulls the rug our from under lying boo bird media

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Dancing With The Stars shot down another anti-Palin liberal lie which has been spread by nutroots far left bloggers, a number of gossip websites and even many lamestream media sources. Yes, we're shocked, shocked! that the LSM would actually do such a dastardly deed... DWTS even provided video proof Tuesday that the boos heard Monday night by the program's viewers were intended for the show's judges, not for Gov. Palin. Palin TV captured the video sequence which exposes the lame leftist lies for what they are:



Don't hold your breath waiting for the Haterade-drinking leftist bloggers to post retractions, corrections or apologies. Heck, don't even look for 'em to stop telling their lies. It's not the Alinsky way.

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Video: Bristol & Mark on DWTS Week 2, with extras

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