The back-and-forth between Bristol Palin and Countdown host Keith Olbermann continued Friday morning, as Palin hit a local Alaska radio show to discuss her “Worst Person in the World” win. While the eldest Palin daughter was generally a good sport about the whole thing, hosts Bob & Mark laid it on pretty thick, and secured agreement from Palin that Olbermann is, indeed, a “dick.”

Bristol also displayed a willingness, even an eagerness, to appear on Countdown and let Olbermann take his best shots at her.

It’s been nearly 24 hours since we posted our last story about Sarah Palin—yeah, we can hardly believe it either. Thankfully, now we can end our long silence with a juicy news item. Dancing With the Stars Season 11 contestant and comedian Margaret Cho published a blog post yesterday in which she offered her take on Bristol Palin‘s television debut—one that claims the teen wouldn’t have been Dancing at all if a certain Mama Grizzly hadn’t pressured her into it.

If you didn’t know any better, you might think that Dancing With the Stars is one of the most polarizing issues in America today. It’s inspired conspiracy theories, threatening mail, and gunfire. You can now add name-calling to the list: on a recent visit The Joy Behar Show, comedian Sandra Bernhard commented on Bristol Palin‘s post-DWTS activity thusly: “She is such a hooker!”

Controversial Dancing With The Stars contestant Bristol Palin took the stage for the final time a few minutes ago, participating in a “Cha-Cha Challenge” with her fellow finalists Though Palin put up a good fight, it wasn’t enough to make her win a mirror-ball trophy—host Tom Bergeron just revealed that she placed third in the competition.

In just a few hours, the winner of Dancing With the Stars’ 11th season will finally be revealed. But just as speculation about the 2012 presidential election began months—if not weeks—after Barack Obama was elected in ’08, the internet is already discussing which “celebrities” might learn to cha-cha in Season 12. One semi-surprising name that’s being thrown around? Christine O’Donnell, the 2010 midterm elections’ most-covered candidate.

The reality TV gods have been kind to Sarah Palin. Her own show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska is a certifiable hit, breaking ratings records for the normally stolid network TLC. Additionally, the former Governor’s own daughter Bristol Palin is a finalist on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, affording Mama Palin plenty of invaluable network TV appearances in which the presidential hopeful comes off as a supportive and relatable mother. Odd, then, that leaked excerpts of Palins’ latest book are very critical of reality television essentially “refudiating” the very genre from which she benefits so greatly.

The nation may be in a tizzy over Bristol Palin‘s final appearance on Dancing with the Stars, but no one is more excited for her than proud mama grizzly Sarah . In an hour-long specially appearance with Sean Hannity tonight, the proud mother echoed Bristol’s philosophy that “haters are going to hate” and praised the teen mom-turned-dancing-abstinence-advocate for “committing to a cause that’s worth it.”

Producers at ABC’s hit show Dancing with the Stars reveal this morning the show’s production was halted Friday when a letter arrived at the show’s Los Angeles studio filled with white powder and a letter making threats.

According to RadarOnline, none of the remaining contestants–including celebrity kid Bristol Palin–was in the building at the time, and Southern California authorities later identified the white substance as talcum powder.

Abstinent mother and dancing sensation Bristol Palin caused the greatest controversy of her life by advancing to the Dancing with the Stars final last week, spawning a thousand Tea Party conspiracies and causing at least one man to shoot his television set. To discuss the controversy and her role (or lack thereof) in it, the younger Palin and dance partner Mark Ballas talked competition and fame with Greta Van Susteren Friday night.

At this point, you probably know that Bristol Palin has moved to the finals on Dancing with the Stars. You also might know that some don’t believe she deserves it and aren’t happy about it. What you probably don’t know, is that one of those people got so angry he shot his TV with a shotgun and then had a 15 hour standoff with the police. If Bristol Palin doing well on dancing show can make the guy this angry, lets hope he never tries to watch the news.

Despite landing at the bottom of the leader board four times this season, Alaska’s abstinence-loving former First Daughter (and Mark Ballas, her dance partner) has managed to waltz her way into the finale of Dancing With the Stars. Tonight, it was revealed that Bristol and Mark beat out third-place finishers Brandy and Maksim Chmerkovskiy— even though one of the singer’s dances was awarded a perfect score on Monday. Conspiracy?

Bristol Palin and The Situation star in a hilarious new Funny Or Die video about sex, and how you shouldn’t have it.

Wait, this is a real PSA? Oh – here’s this extremely awkward video featuring these two “stars,” telling you about abstinence.

According to Ashley Parker of the New York Times, Dancing with the Stars attracts ads from Republicans and Democrats in equal measure. As Parker writes, though, the “bipartisan consensus on America’s TV habits apparently ends there.” In a year when political spending on TV advertising will hit an all-time high of $3 billion, all television programs are not created equal. Each major party targets different sets of voters by choosing to run ads for their candidates during different types of shows.

“THE RATE at which a person can mature is directly proportionate to the embarrassment he can tolerate,” said the great American inventor, Douglas Engelbart. *** REALLY? Well, I hate to disagree with a famous brain, but if we were to take Mr. Engelbart at his word, the entire GOP (especially since the election of Barack [...]

Jon Stewart is planning a big rally in Washington D.C. for October 30th, calling it the “Rally to Restore Sanity”. On last night’s The Daily Show, the “fake news” host used two recent items in the news as examples for the nation’s dire need to restore sanity: Rep. Alan Grayson’s dishonest attack ad toward his opponent “Taliban Dan” Webster, and the fake booing controversy surrounding Sarah Palin‘s recent appearance on Dancing With The Stars. Stewart seemed put back in pointing out how Palin had been mistreated, saying “don’t make me defend her.”

Sarah Palin has never been the center of media attention for a stranger reason than supposedly getting booed on Dancing With the Stars when she made an appearance in support of her daughter and contestant Bristol…but the show still maintains the crowd didn’t boo her.

Well, that was odd. During tonight’s episode of Dancing with the Stars, Sarah Palin made a surprise appearance as “special guest commentator” and supporter of her daughter, Bristol. Sitting with her second youngest, Piper, Palin cheerfully explained how much she was enjoying seeing the competition. However, it seems that some in the audience weren’t enjoying seeing her as a loud series of boos accompanied her appearance. Update – ABC claims that the booing “wasn’t directed at Palin.”

Perhaps the problem was that The Situation covered up “the situation” with his buttoned up shirt. Whatever the case and even with Jersey Shore stars Sammy and Vinny cheering him on from the stands (yes, the cast of Jersey Shore are more reliable than Sarah Palin), Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino ended up in a tie for third place last night on Dancing with the Stars.

The most momentous TV occasion since that time LeBron James inexplicably hijacked the news cycle for an hour finally arrived today: Bristol Palin debuted her Cha-Cha on Dancing with the Stars, clad in a frilly red dress and blazer (just in case mom was watching, we assume).

Greta Van Susteren had Bristol Palin on as her guest last night, finding time to talk about Palin’s participation in the hit competitive reality show Dancing With The Stars. One can only Imagine someone waking up from a two-year coma, watching the following clip then asking for bewildered explanation behind the numerous and strange cultural phenomena that have made this 19 year-old single mother and Jersey Shore‘s “The Situation” such relevant, nay, influential characters in today’s culture.

The promotional photos for what promises to be the most exciting season of Dancing With the Stars for media junkies since Tucker Carlson‘s one-hit wonder performance are out– time to speculate over why Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino missed the photo shoot and get outraged about the length of Bristol Palin‘s dress!

Celebrity mom Bristol Palin is beginning the media tour for her upcoming appearance on Dancing with the Stars, and last night it landed her on the couch of Jay Leno‘s Tonight Show. Leno went easy the younger Palin, giving her space to dance, laugh, and take a few jabs at her ex Levi Johnston.

The Wynn Las Vegas, which apparently isn’t a fan of America and freedom, has given Bristol Palin the worst odds to win Dancing With The Stars, at 35 to 1.

We know this because of a fun press release we got today from the Wynn Las Vegas, announcing their Dancing With The Stars odds. Here’s the full press release and below, we make our case why you might want to take that bet

The new cast of Dancing With The Stars has been announced, and it sounds like it will be a redefining year for the word “stars.”

Not that there isn’t fantastic trainwreck potential here – it could end up being the highest rated season ever. But out of these 12 contestants, which “star” is the least famous?

The Early Show‘s Erica Hill warned viewers that they were all “about to see a whole lot more of Levi Johnston.” Considering the guy posed for Playgirl, that’s saying a lot. Still, it’s definitely true as he’s got both a reality show and a mayoral campaign coming up. Now that he’s finally separated from the Palin clan for good (except for, y’know, that whole child thing), he can speak freely about the big Mama Grizzly. He began his new-found freedom by completely retracting his apology to the family.