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Bristol Palin’s Success On Dancing With The Stars Sent Viewers Complaining To The FCC

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As you may have heard, Bristol Palin recently appeared on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, and she did pretty well–defying the judges and rising to the final three. Ultimately, she and her partner finished in third place.

Well, the against-all-odds success of Sarah Palin‘s kid apparently boiled the blood of some DWTS viewers, who weren’t satisfied simply moaning to friends, family and neighbors, nor even to picking up the phone and complaining to ABC. No. They went to the government.

Documents obtained by The Smoking Gun detail all kinds of angry complaints registered with the Federal Communications Commission, ranging from accusations that ABC was “encouraging and promoting teen pregnancy” to charges the dance show’s voting system was rigged:

One viewer from Pittsburgh alleged that the show’s voting system had been “fixed by extreme supporters of the Tea Party and Radical Right-Wing. I find that it has become a political platform for Sarah Palin to improve her image and ooze her political slime.” The aggrieved correspondent continued, “Bristol is not a star, what did she do, she had sex and got pregnant. Lets reward her…I made several call to ABC’s complaint line and I hope that their phone lines melt. It has become a political movement, with Tea Party websites instructing on how to vote for Bristol. Ridiculousness!”

Ridiculous, indeed.

Perhaps the complainant least likely to be an entertaining dinner guest is the viewer from Cerritos, California who objected to a hug between Palin and DWTS judge Carrie Ann Inaba:

Noting that “no other dancer was called over for a hug,” one viewer claimed that the clinch was a “signal for the GOP/Tea Party supporters of Sarah Palin to ‘stuff’ the vote for Bristol Palin, who on both dates had to be dragged over the dance floor.” The writer added, “My 96 year old Mother-in-Law can dance better than Ms. Palin…I want my Government to protect me the viewer from deceptive practices.”

Yeah, um… fear not. The government will get right on this. Not much else on the proverbial plate right now.

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  • Atticus Draco

    ‘They went to the government.”

    Whiny liberals

    And what are they gonna get for going to the govt.
    BUKUS
    zip,, nadda

  • Harry Flashman

    Sweet tap dancin’ Allah……

    These people are absolutely deranged (in a very literal sense) over the Palins in general and Sarah Palin in particular.

    Get some help, people, have a drink or take a pill or go for a run or take up yoga or something. You are absolutely embarrassing yourselves.

    Not that THAT matters.

  • The Real Royal King

    It’s the great quiz show scandals of the 1950′s made manifest in a Palin as a latter day Charles Van Doren. The tragedy! The shame!

  • writer

    The FCC? Really? A TV show is that important to their existence? I know the left’s hatred of all things Palin knows no bounds, but it sounds like these people need to get a life.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: The feeders went to their handlers! 12/11/2010 Go Navy beat Army!

  • tatboy

    PDS is really getting out of hand.

  • The Real Royal King

    Atticus Draco said:
    ‘They went to the government.”

    Whiny liberals

    And what are they gonna get for going to the govt.
    BUKUS
    zip,, nadda

    I don’t know. If the fix were really in ….

    http://universityhonors.umd.edu/HONR269J/projects/venanzi.html

    Television was changed for the better. Maybe that’s what the people complaining were seeking to get. Maybe they aren’t greedy, self-absorbed materialists.

  • Atticus Draco

    writer said:
    The FCC? Really? A TV show is that important to their existence? I know the left’s hatred of all things Palin knows no bounds, but it sounds like these people need to get a life.

    it’s an incredible thing to witness
    jeeze

    THESE PEOPLE CANT BE SERIOUS?!?

  • germ

    I guess since they need the government to tell them what to do, the government should put out a PSA on how to change the channel on the tv. A loss in rating points will do more than a letter will ever do.

  • PBerg

    Well, I agree, there should be SOME kind of telecommunication law, that says Dancing THAt bad should not be filmed and shown ! Did you ever see any other fat guests—make it that far? Not hardly. One of her legs weighed more than my entire body! Oh, well, thank God for the remote, which I merely changed the channel during her dance, so I could then come back for the REAL stars. You know—-the ones that SHOULD have gone on, like Fox, Warner and Brandy.

  • cjd ohio 1

    lol

  • cjd ohio 1

    yeah ,tellem PBerg we need a limit on fat people,

  • writer

    I guess PBerg also filed a protest with the Indian government when Sanjaya was on American Idol.

  • PBerg

    WRITER—what you mistake for hate, is nothing more than deep disgust. At the Palin’s hillbilly, redneck life style, at her being a quitter in a position like a Governor so she can go make money, at her allowing her teen daughter to fornicate in her house without the teen talk about birth control, at her son who had to join the military because of crimes, another daughter who appears to be a cheap off the old block, a Special Needs baby obviously not getting any Special needs care. This classless, low female THINKS she should be President of the US, CIC, and Leader of the Free World.===and I can’t believe it !

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Phil-Bourekas/1538058627 Phil Bourekas

    PBerg said:
    Well, I agree, there should be SOME kind of telecommunication law, that says Dancing THAt bad should not be filmed and shown ! Did you ever see any other fat guests—make it that far? Not hardly. One of her legs weighed more than my entire body! Oh, well, thank God for the remote, which I merely changed the channel during her dance, so I could then come back for the REAL stars. You know—-the ones that SHOULD have gone on, like Fox, Warner and Brandy.

    If the government doesn’t get on making sure that contestants are qualified, someday we might elect a community organizer to be president!

  • cjd ohio 1

    yeah, get that bitch off of welfare, oops ……never mind

  • cjd ohio 1

    fat people, hillbillies, rednecks, anyone else PBerg?

  • milynily

    I don’t remember anyone getting this nutty last year,when Kate Gosselin kept getting votes, week after week. She was awful. Compared to her, Bristol is Ginger Rogers.

  • writer

    PBerg, what does your hatred of Sarah Palin have to do with it? Bristol had as much right to try and win as anyone else. Your hatred of that girl, just because you don’t like her mom’s political views, is demented.

  • The Real Royal King

    tatboy said:
    PDS is really getting out of hand.

    So if the Drop Out Governor and her dirty little minions had the fix in, you’re not disturbed by that? I guess that is rhetorical. None of her adoring worshippers were concerned by the Drop Out Governor’s clothes scandal nor the numerous abuses of her official position. All the Marys in Heaven, these adoring people even complained that the State of Alaska required the Drop Out Governor to reimburse the state for the abuse of office in having the state pay for her children’s airfare when she drug them around.

  • The Real Royal King

    PBerg said:
    WRITER—what you mistake for hate, is nothing more than deep disgust. At the Palin’s hillbilly, redneck life style, at her being a quitter in a position like a Governor so she can go make money, at her allowing her teen daughter to fornicate in her house without the teen talk about birth control, at her son who had to join the military because of crimes, another daughter who appears to be a cheap off the old block, a Special Needs baby obviously not getting any Special needs care. This classless, low female THINKS she should be President of the US, CIC, and Leader of the Free World.===and I can’t believe it !

    Kumquat is one of the big haters at this site, and it is all he can relate to when an argument becomes too substantive or too intellectual.

  • The Real Royal King

    PBerg said:
    I agree, there should be SOME kind of telecommunication law, that says Dancing THAt bad should not be filmed and shown !

    LOL —

  • writer

    King, you hateful piece of shit. If Palin appears with her kids, she’s ‘dragging them around’. If she doesn’t appear with them, she’s abandoning them. I realize how hateful you are toward anyone disagreeing with you, and I really don’t care. That’s just who you are. But please, enough of those posts where you talk about going to church and telling us what a compassionate guy you are. It’s sickening.

  • cjd ohio 1

    RRK,hillbilly , redneck, fat,……….too substantive or too intellectual………….lol

  • rr98411

    “…who weren’t satisfied simply moaning to friends, family and neighbors, nor even to picking up the phone and complaining to ABC. No. They went to the government.”

    Complaining to the government about a Palin bred teeny booper shaking her booty on a TV show… that they can choose not to watch… really!?

    One of the coming Four Horseman of the Apocalypse… get a life people before it’s too late

  • tgk

    PBerg said:
    WRITER—what you mistake for hate, is nothing more than deep disgust. At the Palin’s hillbilly, redneck life style, at her being a quitter in a position like a Governor so she can go make money, at her allowing her teen daughter to fornicate in her house without the teen talk about birth control, at her son who had to join the military because of crimes, another daughter who appears to be a cheap off the old block, a Special Needs baby obviously not getting any Special needs care. This classless, low female THINKS she should be President of the US, CIC, and Leader of the Free World.===and I can’t believe it !

    So, your first rant was a personal attack on Bristol and then you justify that rant by going off on Sarah? Nope, no hate or PDS there AT ALL!

  • The Real Royal King

    writer said:
    King, you hateful piece of shit. If Palin appears with her kids, she’s ‘dragging them around’. If she doesn’t appear with them, she’s abandoning them. I realize how hateful you are toward anyone disagreeing with you, and I really don’t care. That’s just who you are. But please, enough of those posts where you talk about going to church and telling us what a compassionate guy you are. It’s sickening.

    Thanks for the chortle.

  • writer

    That’s okay, King. Glad to help. You guys in your seventies get cranky, what with going in your Depends and misplacing your dentures. I’m sure it can’t be easy.

  • tatboy

    The Real Royal King said:
    So if the Drop Out Governor and her dirty little minions had the fix in, you’re not disturbed by that? I guess that is rhetorical. None of her adoring worshippers were concerned by the Drop Out Governor’s clothes scandal nor the numerous abuses of her official position. All the Marys in Heaven, these adoring people even complained that the State of Alaska required the Drop Out Governor to reimburse the state for the abuse of office in having the state pay for her children’s airfare when she drug them around.

    Disturbed about DWTS… no. Disturbed that this show is popular in my country… yes. Seriously King were talking about a TV show… and a crappy one at that. The Palin hate needs to have a limit. Hilter is looking up and feeling sorry for these young girls. I have to admit I don’t read most “Palin” articles on this blog but this title just blew me away. Seriously people it’s a crappy show that means NOTHING… get a grip.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    PBerg said:
    WRITER—what you mistake for hate, is nothing more than deep disgust. At the Palin’s hillbilly, redneck life style, at her being a quitter in a position like a Governor so she can go make money, at her allowing her teen daughter to fornicate in her house without the teen talk about birth control, at her son who had to join the military because of crimes, another daughter who appears to be a cheap off the old block, a Special Needs baby obviously not getting any Special needs care. This classless, low female THINKS she should be President of the US, CIC, and Leader of the Free World.===and I can’t believe it !

    How many lies can you put in one paragraph? I don’t know any hillbilly’s that live like the Palin’s. You must live in a Castle and look down the regular people.
    You have no idea what she told her daughters about sex. Maybe you should have talked to Obama’s mother.
    In your day Obama would be called a basterd.
    Palin’s son was never involved in any crime and was not charged with any crime. No one has to join the military and NO judge does that anymore. The Army will not accept people in those circumstances.
    Palin has a large family and they take care of their children. Unlike the Kennedy’s who used nanny’s and servants to raise their children. They ALL turned out to be liars and adulterers.

    Now that I have established that YOU are a LOW class liar hiding behind a phony name to attack the Palin’s you should crawl back in your hole.

    See my new video about the Palin haters like the one above.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2FE4I7JJw

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The Real Royal King said:
    Drop Out Governor’s clothes scandal nor the numerous abuses of her official position. All the Marys in Heaven, these adoring people even complained that the State of Alaska required the Drop Out Governor to reimburse the state for the abuse of office in having the state pay for her children’s airfare when she drug them around.

    Do you ever stop lying? There were NO abuses of her official position. There was NOTHING to reimburse the state for. There was NO clothing scandle. All of those claims were made up by her enemies and the media. They counted on you repeating them long after they were proven false.

  • writer

    The King has become quite the expert on womens’ fashions. He’s like Bruno, only more gay.

  • Chuck from Tacoma

    Good grief, Between The Real Royal King Richard and PBerg, the Mediaite BDS is beyond belief.
    Were either of you really watching DWTS? Really? If so, why? If for nothing other than mindless entertainment, there is no real reason.
    No wonder our government is so screwed up. With morons calling in to the FCC to complain about the voting on a TeeVee show. If it is anything like American Idol, you can vote as many times as you want. Hell, I voted for Carrie Underwood so many times, I felt like a Seattle or Chicago Democrat. But you can probably count on the FCC to do a full investigation as they have found a real wedge issue to exploit come the 2012 election season.

  • The Real Royal King

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Do you ever stop lying? There were NO abuses of her official position. There was NOTHING to reimburse the state for. There was NO clothing scandle. All of those claims were made up by her enemies and the media. They counted on you repeating them long after they were proven false.

    I am afraid, my friend, Marceaux, I mean Blower, it is you who is the liar, again.

    http://www.adn.com/2009/02/24/700958/palin-to-reimburse-state-for-family.html

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2009/02/sarah_palins_tax_matters.html

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14805.html

    http://www.mahalo.com/sarah-palin-ethics-violations

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27105917/ns/politics-decision_08/

    She’s so ethically compromised, I realize it is hard to keep up with all of the abuses. This small anthology should make it possible for you to stop lying about them.

  • The Real Royal King

    Chuck from Tacoma said:
    Good grief, Between The Real Royal King Richard and PBerg, the Mediaite BDS is beyond belief.
    Were either of you really watching DWTS? Really? If so, why? If for nothing other than mindless entertainment, there is no real reason.
    No wonder our government is so screwed up. With morons calling in to the FCC to complain about the voting on a TeeVee show. If it is anything like American Idol, you can vote as many times as you want. Hell, I voted for Carrie Underwood so many times, I felt like a Seattle or Chicago Democrat. But you can probably count on the FCC to do a full investigation as they have found a real wedge issue to exploit come the 2012 election season.

    The great quiz show scandals involved only entertainment as well. The fact that we are so dumbed down we couldn’t answer questions about American history or literature shouldn’t absolve a fraud.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    Like we need it: more proof that the PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome)-afflicted lunatic-left d-crat socialists are MENTALLY ILL – and THERE IS NO CURE !

  • The Real Royal King

    TeaPartyPatriot said:
    Like we need it: more proof that the PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome)-afflicted lunatic-left d-crat socialists are MENTALLY ILL – and THERE IS NO CURE !

    Of course, what you call DS is anyone who insists upon personal accountability and the upholding of ethical, moral and intellectual standards. They are all an anathema to the radical rightists for whom ideological purity even running through a cesspool of a life, is all that matters.

  • writer

    Now if, for instance, Bristol had left a woman under water for eight hours before reporting it, or some such behavior as that, the King would be saying that it was merely a forgivable mistake. But Bristol having big thighs, well, some things just aren’t forgivable. The King, after all, has his moral and ethical standards.

  • Pablo

    PBerg said:
    Well, I agree, there should be SOME kind of telecommunication law, that says Dancing THAt bad should not be filmed and shown ! Did you ever see any other fat guests—make it that far? Not hardly. One of her legs weighed more than my entire body!

    We have a little person here? I did not know that! I love the diversity here. You little guys are so damned cute!

  • writer

    So the lefties are saying that anyone they consider ‘fat’ shouldn’t be allowed on a dancing show. Wonder if they’d take the same approach with Survivor, and say that they shouldn’t allow blacks? After all, many of the contests involve swimming, and black aren’t known for their swimming ability.

  • Pablo

    The Real Rabid Kook said:
    I am afraid, my friend, Marceaux, I mean Blower, it is you who is the liar, again.

    http://www.adn.com/2009/02/24/700958/palin-to-reimburse-state-for-family.html

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2009/02/sarah_palins_tax_matters.html

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14805.html

    http://www.mahalo.com/sarah-palin-ethics-violations

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27105917/ns/politics-decision_08/

    She’s so ethically compromised, I realize it is hard to keep up with all of the abuses. This small anthology should make it possible for you to stop lying about them.

    From the first link:

    “Nothing in this agreement constitutes an admission of wrongdoing, and none has been found,” the document said.

    From the second (and not rebutted):

    When The Post followed up, asking if Palin thought it was important to pay all her taxes, Leighow responded:

    “Nothing I have said can be construed to say that the governor will not pay her taxes, or has not paid her taxes. She has paid what she understood she owed, and she is the one who asked for a review of the per diem situation when the subject surfaced last fall. She has done nothing wrong and will comply, of course, with all pertinent IRS regulations and rulings. It is amazing that you would even pose this question, and it seems indicative of a hostile bent to your story.”

    Kook, you’re such a kook. Hate like that will eat a man up, you know.

  • writer

    It would a normal man, but the King is a sociopath. He doesn’t have enough human emotion for it to affect him.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    So for those of you keeping score, this is a story, but Obama FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, daughter of Congressman James Clyburn, saying every “nappy-headed child” deserves free internet isn’t.

  • TCinAZ

    What about The View hags? What about those genuises? Why I’ll bet they’re at MENSA’s “health club” as we speak, working their frontal lobes down to the cerebellum, but I don’t want them thrown off the air. As their entertainment value Alone is worth the price of admission.

  • ImNotBlue

    PBerg says:
    December 7, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    I already regret this… but are you seriously trying to tell me that the girl in the picture above is “too fat?” Are you serious?

    Why aren’t there more left-wingers and feminists on this site (including editors and writers) saying, “This is wrong?” Sad… really sad.

  • notsofast

    Too Fking bad!

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    INB, I was just thinking the same thing. I think she looks great!!

  • SmartAlec

    PBerg said:
    One of her legs weighed more than my entire body!

    I kinda figured you for a skinny weakling.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    Bristol Palin’s Success On Dancing With The Stars Sent Viewers Complaining To The FCC

    One viewer from Pittsburgh alleged that the show’s voting system had been “fixed by extreme supporters of the Tea Party and Radical Right-Wing.

    You people on the left, just need to let go your affliction with the Palin’s. Nows its going into conspiracy territory…LOL

  • Nacho

    There is nothing in this story that suggests the “left” where the complainers. If was in fact the “left”, it would imply they were political. These fucking losers that watch these shows are far from political. They are your average mindless Americans looking for a mindless pointless escape from their boring lives.

    The very face that they bitched about it becoming political is proof that they are very apolitical.

    For the right wing wingnuts to so quickly blame the loon left is a true sign of weakness and desperation.

  • ImNotBlue

    Nacho said:

    There is nothing in this story that suggests the “left” where the complainers.

    Yes, clearly this came from a Republican:

    One viewer from Pittsburgh alleged that the show’s voting system had been “fixed by extreme supporters of the Tea Party and Radical Right-Wing. I find that it has become a political platform for Sarah Palin to improve her image and ooze her political slime.”

    Please. Read.

  • Pablo

    Nacho said:
    These fucking losers that watch these shows are far from political. They are your average mindless Americans looking for a mindless pointless escape from their boring lives.

    Well, you’re half right. I give you WaPo’s Sally Quinn:

    The unholy (s)election of Bristol Palin

    I feel for Bristol Palin. Here’s a plucky young woman who signed up for “Dancing With the Stars” knowing she had no chance to win but thinking it might be an adventure. Bristol had never danced and was up against some world-class dancers. That takes guts. I know. I’m a ballroom dancer myself. Dancing is my religion.

    My secret fantasy is to be on “Dancing” but of course I would never dare. I can see Len saying in a caustic British accent, “That was absolutely the worst Paso Doble I have ever seen in my 11 seasons on this show!” And Bruno, standing up, tearing at his hair, “What are you thinking?! Where is the passion? The sexuality? The character? That was PATHETIC!” And Carrie Ann, regretfully: “Sally, you’re a good journalist. Why do you want to put yourself through this?”

    My husband and I are “DWTS” fanatics. We plan our social life around it, often regretting invitations that fall on the night of the show. Only in emergencies would we try to TiVo. Not only that, but I vote. Under the show’s rules, you’re allowed to vote five times on one line. I have six lines at home and my cell, so I vote as many times as I can for my favorite. This season, I’m voting for Jennifer Grey all the way. She is by far the best dancer on the show.

    Sally’s kinda political, you know.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The Real Royal King said:
    She’s so ethically compromised, I realize it is hard to keep up with all of the abuses. This small anthology should make it possible for you to stop lying about them.

    Well I was gone and when I came back Pablo already proved you a liar. All of your links are just rehashing left-wing charges. There was NOTHING wrong with the purchase of the clothes. It happens all the time and the only scandal is in YOUR mind.
    Almost every elected official in the country has had similar charges made against them. Most of these are like a jaywalking ticket.
    If you want a list of folks that have REAL ethics charges or are just flat out crooks try, Rangle, Watters, Pelosi, Obama, Geitner, Van Jones and almost everyone appointed by Obama.

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