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Bristol Palin Talks Tea Party DWTS Conspiracy Theories With Greta Van Susteren

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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.

Bristol was particularly tight-lipped in this interview for On the Record, only emphasizing the amount of work that goes into the tournament, how “rewarding” the experience has been, and how much respect she has for professional dancers now– a career she has no interest in following. Questioned on the controversy surrounding her advance to the finals, Ballas (a seven-time DWTS veteran) defended her, noting that “we have this kind of controversy every season” and that it “comes with the territory.” On Bristol’s end, she told Van Susteren that “I don’t pay much attention to whatever’s being thrown around out there” and is focused on winning. As for the future beyond the tournament, “I know that God has a lot in store of Tripp and I,” she said, though she had no idea what that future would bring.

The interview from Friday’s On the Record via Fox News below:

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  • Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack

    Personally, if the the Freepers at Free Republic want to rally the troops on her behalf, that is fine with me. Besides, it is probably one of the few times during the course of the week they turn off Fokker News.

    P.S.
    What I want to know is if all this dancing has helped her lose some weight? I haven’t watched so I will let someone else tell me.

  • Harry Flashman

    Look! There she is, lefties! Obviously a threatening person, evil to the core! Get her!

    Kind of like kicking a kitten, isn’t it?

    Yeesh.

  • sarainitaly

    But critics charge Palin supporters found a way to exploit the network’s e-mail voting system, primarily through creating a flood of false e-mail addresses that allowed them to grossly over-vote. The show, which won’t reveal details about its voting results, permits only five votes per phone line and five per e-mail address.

    ABC officials stood by its results Wednesday. Though the network doesn’t require users to authenticate e-mail addresses, there are safeguards in place to prevent such fraud. (The Times agreed not to divulge the nature of that system for security reasons.)

    “We are confident that the checks and balances system, which has been in place since the show’s inception, accurately and fairly reflects the sentiment of the show’s viewers,” the network said in a statement.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/la-et-1118-bristol-palin-20101118,0,222899.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+latimes/news+(L.A.+Times+-+Top+News)

    PDS, plain and simple.

  • BlackWidow

    She is a little chubby in that picture.

  • BlackWidow

    Harry Flashman said:
    Look! There she is, lefties! Obviously a threatening person, evil to the core! Get her! Kind of like kicking a kitten, isn’t it? Yeesh.

    Yes Harry she is really just a kid. Personally I think she is the only one in the family with any brains.

  • nrgetick

    Why doesnt that fat ass lose some weight!!! doesnt she know shes on t.v?!?!? oh yea shes a teabagger…keepin it fo real,.ha ha ha,,seriously bristol is fat.,.her tits evan have their own boobs

  • nrgetick

    ………waiting…………..

    I thought willow was supposed to swoop in and call me a faggot,,.ha ha ha

  • Big Eddie

    nrgetick said:
    Why doesnt that fat ass lose some weight!!! doesnt she know shes on t.v?!?!? oh yea shes a teabagger…keepin it fo real,.ha ha ha,,seriously bristol is fat.,.her tits evan have their own boobs

    Are you a human being ?

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Thank you nrgetick for pointing out your stupidity better than we ever could. The loony left, doin our work for us!

  • mlong

    It’s amazing to watch the Sara Palin haters go after her through her children even her Downs syndrome affected son can’t escape it..but tell me what has Bristol done to anyone to deserve it?..and the fat jokes?..really you guys are using fat jokes I thought you Liberals were lecturing us about bulling people now.,,I ‘m mean how childish do you guys have to be to make fat jokes about a young girl just to get at her Mother..even Jon Stewart thinks that’s pretty low.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack said:
    What I want to know is if all this dancing has helped her lose some weight? I haven’t watched so I will let someone else tell me.

    Do your constant posts here help you lose weight? Is that why you hide behind that phony name? How many times a day do they feed you at the institution? Do they let you use anything except the plastic spoon?
    They told me you stopped eating the crayons last week. Good for you. Now if they can find the right drugs to get you stop playing with yourself all day.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    BlackWidow said:
    She is a little chubby in that picture.

    Poor baby, I know you passed that weight years ago. Do you still break chairs when you sit down?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    nrgetick said:
    Why doesnt that fat ass lose some weight!!! doesnt she know shes on t.v?!?!? oh yea shes a teabagger…keepin it fo real,.ha ha ha,,seriously bristol is fat.,.her tits evan have their own boobs

    I think it is because she wants to use you as a guide. When you lose the extra 500 lbs that you are holding onto she will be inspired to lose the extra 10 lbs she has. I saw that show when you were with Richard Simmons. Why was he standing so close behind you?

  • Nacho

    The poor Palins, crying all the way to the bank.

    What do you “doctors” get out of diagnosing PDS on all libs?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    nrgetick said:
    I thought willow was supposed to swoop in and call me a faggot,,.ha ha ha

    Are you coming out of the closet?

  • Nacho

    Hell, you docs diagnose it on anyone with an opinion on the Palins, it not just a lib syndrome.

    Self prescribed feelgood medication?

  • MiddleRoader

    Big Eddie said:
    Are you a human being ?

    Same could be asked of Gordo here.

  • Sue

    How can Bristol be blamed for her status when the there are judges and supporters calling? Oh, I forgot, the lefties who hate her say so. As usual these braindead hominids can’t figure out what is true versus trash.
    “nrgetick said:
    Why doesn’t that fat ass lose some weight!!! doesn’t she know shes on t.v?!?!? oh yea shes a teabagger…keepin it fo real,.ha ha ha,,seriously bristol is fat.,.her tits evan have their own boobs” Get a load of this low hanging fruit! Its trying to pass! For what? something with a brain, but it’s failing miserably. Can’t use words correctly….grammar gone, and the misuse of our lexicon is ugly. Where do you live nrgetick? Under what rock do people like you come from?

  • jesse cornish is an impotent weirdo

    If, as the chubby expatriate’s link suggests, ABC is confident that their voting mechanisms aren’t vulnerable to fraud, why is there already talk of altering the system next season? Regardless, I do give Brothel some degree of credit for not permitting a kicking baby from distracting her from walking in time with the music.

    http://jezebel.com/5691445/how-palin-conservatives-are-cheating-the-dwts-voting-system?skyline=true&s=i

    http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/zwecker/2904534,zwecker-dancing-111810.article

  • nrgetick

    ha ha you teabaggers are too much fun..

    hey gordan! how much does your fat ass weigh,.ha ha

  • nrgetick

    @ sue “Get a load of this low hanging fruit!”

    your not a TSA screener are you? lol

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Palin wins in a shellacking of the other contestants in Dancing with the Stars after Tea Party vs. d-bagger vote.

  • Pablo

    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…

    Frances, when you went to J-School, assuming you went to J-School, did you ever think that you’d be opening an article about someone by using the term “abstinent mother” as a descriptor of them?

    It’s a damn shame that you couldn’t work the fact that her baby daddy is an epic loser into that first phrase.

    JOURNALISM!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    Frances did a corresponence course, perhaps, judging from her way of writing non-stop vapid twaddle about nearly every subject she knows nothing about, but has a strong opinion about.

    OTOH, that might mean she went to Columbia School of Journalism and cheated on the ethics exam. Everybody else did, if you recall the incident. Just think, thirty years from now they’ll be on the Pulitzer Prize committee run out of Columbia Journalism School and that ancient moderate Victor Navasky. He’ll still be alive in his vampire mode, which he entered about fifteen years ago, at last reckoning.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Did you see the outrage on the other contestants faces when Brandy lost? Even Bristol and her partner looked confused and embarrassed. The look that Jennifer Grey had was priceless. Her partner’s jaw dropped.

    This is great. I hope Bristol wins. If she loses she’ll get sympathy but if she wins she will be a laughing stock and detested by most. fair-minded people. Priceless.

    Definitely pulling for a Palin win. lolol

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack said:
    Personally, if the the Freepers at Free Republic want to rally the troops on her behalf

    You’re one serious kook, man. Jesus Christ, get a life.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Did you see the outrage on the other contestants faces when Brandy lost?

    Does anyone on Earth care? Where do you assholes even come from? Fuck, man, did you play with your sister too much as a kid or what?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Did you see the outrage on the other contestants faces when Brandy lost?

    Did that look match the look you had on Nov. 3rd?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

    That’s the way all of those reality contests go where people can vote. It’s a popularity contest not a talent show.the Palins are a bunch of talentless do nothing Alaskan hayseeds.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

    This is the power of voting! That’s all it is. Judges vote on skill, technique and improvement. No one said voters had to do the same,and you all know tea baggers dont vote on merit but rather entitlements in fact all seasons voters have been encouraged to vote on who they like the most. Guess who that is? What should Bristol do, resign for the good of the country? She is winning by poplar vote, it is obvious it rigged for bristol to win,she cannot dance compared to jennifer grey

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

    My cat has more expression on her face when she’s sleeping than Bristol palin has doing a fun dance,she is dull and boring

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

    Thrusting Bristol palin down the throats of sane and knowledgable dance audience has been the only bullying thats goin on ,Funny how whining and preaching are labels used by gop tea baggers to discredit points of views they don’t share in this case dancing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

    Speaking of sarah Palin, and the founding fathers, since both have been discussed in these particular comments, I remember when sarah Palin and Beck chatted up founding fathers and sarah Palin said her favorite was “all of them” what a ditz… she is– like she did in regards to the newspapers she reads in her disastrous interview with Katie Couric– before settling on George Washington after glenn Beck indicated he wasn’t too keen on that response from her …ask sarah palin to name the other founding fathers besides george washington and saying ‘all of them’ is not an accurate answer,sarah palin is a quitter, and we Americans can’t stand a quitter. i could discuss other things like sarah palin’s indulgent self interests or her lack of knowledge regarding foreign affairs, but now, since she bailed as Governor of Alaska, she will always have that stigma as a quitter and a right wing media whore and unelectable to be president

  • Sheryn

    The American public are sick and tired of the Palins thinking they need to be in the news every day. Palins have a never ending need for money, media attention and celebrity status. They weren’t smart enough to read the Dancing with the Stars contract that explains that this is a dancing competition. Once they realized that Bristol the Pistol (a type of Alaskan whale) had no dancing ability, had difficulty learning the choreography, had no energy for the physical demands of dancing and that Bristol was in way over her head, their publicity agents went into damage control and tried to change the rules. They turned the show into a popularity contest and told the Sarah Palin political fans (who never watch the program–but want to show their allegiance to Sarah) that the contest was to measure how much progress a dancer makes from week to week. And the Stars in the title didn’t mean what the dancer’s accomplishments in the entertainment/sports fields was–that should be counted against them. What the publicity agents on Sarah’s staff wanted to do was get these Palin fans voting for Bristol–and they made sure that they knew when, how and even told them little ways to cheat and get more than the allowed number of votes. What they wanted to do was get the Palin’s all this attention and money–but also to open the doors so that Willow or Todd or even Sarah could be on future shows. Sarah was careful to criticize American Idol in her new book (since her family members have no singing talents) but the popular Dancing with the Stars could not be criticized because she wanted to use it as a political advertisement in 2012. Most political candidates feel that they can win election based on their knowledge of the issues and their intelligence. Sarah Palin is making no effort to become more knowledgeable about national affairs–instead she has chosen to use her entire family to get name recognition and she spends all her time criticizing others to get media attention and by ripping other potential candidates down, hoping that the voters don’t notice that she is not improving her own self. Bristol is Mama Grizzly’s dancing bear and ABC is jumping with joy that Sarah used her power and money to get her daughter on this show.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Maliheh says:

    This is the power of voting! That’s all it is. Judges vote on skill, technique and improvement. No one said voters had to do the same,and you all know tea baggers dont vote on merit but rather entitlements in fact all seasons voters have been encouraged to vote on who they like the most. Guess who that is? What should Bristol do, resign for the good of the country? She is winning by poplar vote, it is obvious it rigged for bristol to win,she cannot dance compared to jennifer grey

    Since when do libs care about merit and the integrity of the voting process?

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    ps, If you Dem’s cared about merit, the whtehouse would look very different right now.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Sheryl,
    Don’t forget to take your Palin Derangement Syndrome meds this morning. You may want to consider a double dose.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Maliheh said:
    This is the power of voting! That’s all it is. Judges vote on skill, technique and improvement. No one said voters had to do the same,and you all know tea baggers dont vote on merit but rather entitlements in fact all seasons voters have been encouraged to vote on who they like the most. Guess who that is? What should Bristol do, resign for the good of the country? She is winning by poplar vote, it is obvious it rigged for bristol to win,she cannot dance compared to jennifer grey

    You would rather vote by affirmitive action. Why would anyone vote for someone with no experience running anything. Affirmitive action. Obama is the least qualified person in every room he walks in.

  • writer

    Bristol’s lack of dancing experience is almost as glaring as Obama’s lack of experience for being able to lead the country. BFD has a point. People who win, yet have no experience, become laughing stocks.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Sheryn said:
    The American public are sick and tired of the Palins

    Wow what a jealous rant. Nothing you posted is true. The Palin’s did NOTHING to get on that show and did not do ANYTHING to change any rules.
    Where did you get the idea you could just make things up out of thin air?
    Have you ever posted here before? Are you just RRK using another phony name?
    I have to hand to you, YOU make up bigger lies than most here.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Sheryn said:
    The American public are sick and tired of the Palins thinking they need to be in the news every day.

    So you speak for the entire American public? Please… You’re nothing more than a typical piece of shit Palin hater. Instead of being jealous of the Palin’s, you might try bettering your own worthless little life. But no, that would require some effort on you part, wouldn’t it? It’s a whole lot easier to sit there and bitch and moan and stick your tongue up some socialist’s ass and ask that they stick it to the man. Fuck you people. You’re the one’s who wouldn’t even be here if natural selection were still the order, and when the shooting starts, you’ll be the first to go.

  • BlackWidow

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    ps, If you Dem’s cared about merit, the whtehouse would look very different right now.

    Yea Michele there would be a WHITE family in there. That would make you happy wouldn’t it? Grow up! The Obama’s are a wonderful, smart, and attractive family. History has been made. I doubt you will see a mormon in there anytime soon.

  • writer

    Black Widow, I’m sure there are plenty of attractive Mormons, if appearance is your main criteria in judging a president.

  • Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    You’re one serious kook, man. Jesus Christ, get a life.

    What are you talking about you vile scumbag? Everyone knows about the threads started at FreeRepublic in order to get their people to vote for Bristol Palin.

    “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. ”

    http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20443659,00.html

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack said:
    Everyone knows about the threads started at FreeRepublic in order to get their people to vote for Bristol Palin.

    And … ?

    You’re an idiot. Anyone who cares about Bristol Palin’s gig on a dancing show is an idiot. What a moron…

  • Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    And … ?

    You’re an idiot. Anyone who cares about Bristol Palin’s gig on a dancing show is an idiot. What a moron…

    Apparently the douchebags who read the FreeRepublic care.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack said:
    Apparently the douchebags who read the FreeRepublic care.

    And you. What a retard.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    heard about that guy firing a shotgun at his tele but the last thing bristol needs is another hick shooting his load at her.
    thanks jm

  • Mr.Papshmer

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    heard about that guy firing a shotgun at his tele but the last thing bristol needs is another hick shooting his load at her.
    thanks jm

    Hahahahahaha!!! That’s so funny! You know what’s even funnier? The dipshit that knocked her up has twice the class as you, asshole. How does it feel to know that some jerk kid in an Anchorage suburb could outwit you in a heartbeat? You’re an idiot.

  • njoy-d-ride

    Nacho said:
    The poor Palins, crying all the way to the bank

    Yeah, they sure are. And what happens when people SCREAM LOUDER, then scream “CONSPIRACY” at Bristol, then continue to scream just like our merry band of Mediaite bloggers who are decidedly on the left do?

    The load that they are carring to the bank gets heaver. (And their smiles get bigger…)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

    conservatives claim they are for merit and against entitlements,but yet their voting for the worse dance out of the 3 – stand on your principles!gop – jennifer grey is a firecracker and is 30 years older than bristol and can do cartwheels around her…this is a tv show for christ sake!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

    Gordon , I think you need to stay off the spiked Tea there , Bristol has come this far because of her mothers delusional followers. She cant dance and should have been gone week 2 she’s there because of the popular Vote and not on her merits for Dancing. – stand on your principals

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

    *principles

  • PBerg

    “It’s amazing to watch the Sara Palin haters go after her through her children even her Downs syndrome affected son can’t escape it..but tell me what has Bristol done to anyone to deserve it?..and the fat jokes?..really you guys are using fat jokes I thought you Liberals were lecturing us about bulling people now.,,I ‘m mean how childish do you guys have to be to make fat jokes about a young girl just to get at her Mother”= MLong,

    I am going to say this once, so read my lips !!!

    First of all, Bristol Palin is 20 yrs old, and no child! In fact her fornicating in her MOther’s house resulting in a kid of her own, now makes her fair game to scrutinize ! a hypocrite out there telling kids not to spread their legs like she did !

    Thos jokes about her size are NOT jokes, I hate to tell you. I have watched the show every season, and never saw a girl her size not drop at least 20 lbs ! Someone make the remark that Marc trains her to dance with a Dunkin Donut around his neck, I have to believe it.

    And as for that Special Needs baby—-HOW many Mothers of these NEEDS babies are out there leaving their kids for somebody else to tend to, ONLY pulling them out on their hips when they need a Photo Op? This kid has paid off big time for her—–inciting all kinds of sympathy, instead of outrage that a baby called Special Needs is not getting the special needs it requires !

    Sarah Palin is the worst parent in the world. A son who had to join the military to get out of criminal charges, another daughter involved in a house break-in, now on Facebook calling kids “faggots”. the other little girl, piper, dragged around as another photo op. So quit defending this horrible Mother, even a Mother Grizzly takes better care of it’s cubs than she does !

  • PBerg

    for you Easily led Righties, here’s a sample of what was on ONE Right Wing blog last week !

    “Comments by Sarah Palin political supporters on one of her many political websites that tell you how to cheat on the votes:

    “Same here, 25 votes..voting tonight has been RIDICULOUS..by now I should have about 50 votes but only 25 now..this is insane..you all know what is going on right, the progressive loons crashed the site”

    “I’m at 35 and trying to find another source, LOL.”

    “I went back on line to cast my last of 35 votes and I got the “page not found” when I voted for B&M. Because I’m not a very trusting person, I decided to use up one vote to vote for someone else. Guess what? It worked with no problem.”

    “The phone call voting was MUCH easier then the online..online is IMPOSSIBLE, even though I did get 30 votes in..but its just still overwhelmed right now..I cant even get on the site now”

    “I agree just keep voting..just did another 20 votes in online and used up both cells phones for the phone voting”

    “don’t we just get 5 votes? i called my 5 already”

    “Yes. But, if you have more than one phone, please call it! Or go online and create as many accounts as you can to vote!”

    “40 votes for Bristol! Take that you @#$%ake mushroom filled judges”

  • writer

    PBerg, we’re glad to see that Palin is so inconsequential, she doesn’t get you upset.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    PBerg said:
    Sarah Palin is the worst parent in the world. A son who had to join the military to get out of criminal charges, another daughter involved in a house break-in, now on Facebook calling kids “faggots”. the other little girl, piper, dragged around as another photo op. So quit defending this horrible Mother, even a Mother Grizzly takes better care of it’s cubs than she does !

    It would be horrible if these stories were true. But they are not.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Maliheh said:
    Gordon , I think you need to stay off the spiked Tea there , Bristol has come this far because of her mothers delusional followers. She cant dance and should have been gone week 2 she’s there because of the popular Vote and not on her merits for Dancing. – stand on your principals

    Duh? That is what the show is about. Viewers voting. I can’t help it if you don’t like the outcome. I bet you didn’t like it on Nov. 2nd either. LOL.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    PBerg said:
    for you Easily led Righties, here’s a sample of what was on ONE Right Wing blog last week !

    And you believe everything you read on the blogs? LOL Just how dumb are you?

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