Vote for ABB (Anyone But Bristol) on DWTS.

[gauguin57]

They're making it political, so we might as well make it political.

Don't let miss no-talent "teen activist" win because of Tea Party votes. I'll try to post the numbers with which to vote here later this evening.

[bbinacan]

1. I could give a shit.

Why waste my time on something this stupid?

[gauguin57]

4. It may seem stupid to you ... but every win for a Palin is a psychological win for THE Palin.

If the Tea Party can influence the vote of a national TV show, just imagine how powerful they'll feel when it comes to putting Sarah in the White House in 2012?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

44. Exactly!!! n/t

[emilyg]

39. Yep.

[KansasVoter]

43. You meant "I couldn't give a shit"

[AngryOldDem]

58. Really?

So all this sudden Palin exposure is just pure coincidence? They (whoever "they" are) are trying to package her and her family as likeable, everyday folk. Wonder why that is? Could 2012 be the reason? One commentator said half in jest that DWTS is already a straw poll on her. Not too far off the mark. Her handlers (and whoever else) are testing the political winds with this, I have no doubt.

At the very least, this will show that some of us **are** paying attention, and are wise to the game that's being played.

[Pathwalker]

2. They've changed the rules just for this season.

I'm done watching.

[peacebird]

3. have never watched, how does one "vote"?

[Pathwalker]

5. Phone, email, or text. I just learned that Jennifer Grey is the daughter

of Joel Grey and the granddaughter of Mickey Katz.

[gauguin57]

9. Kyle Massey has the best combination of showmanship and talent, IMHO.

Jennifer's great, but Kyle both dances well AND he's a crowdpleaser.

[Pathwalker]

24. Call 1-800-868-3403 to vote for Kyle Massey.

He has been a thrill to watch.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

41. she's also "Baby" from Dirty Dancing!

She cam reallly dance.

[gauguin57]

6. They'll give you the numbers on the screen to vote for the different contestants.

I'll try to put them here later this evening (I think you have till tomorrow night to vote).

[Harry Monroe]

19. Apparently, one can vote as many times as they want.

Kind or rigs the process from the get go! Frankly, I have never watched and never will.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Jennifer all the way.

[Pathwalker]

22. Call 1-800-868-3411 to vote for Jennifer.

I keep getting a busy signal. You can vote 5 times via phone, but only until 9:45

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. I have been calling since her first dance and am up to only 4 votes. I think

someone is jamming the lines.

[Pathwalker]

33. I can't get through either. I got three votes, then "Sorry, your call

cannot go through". Then, nothing but busy signals, on both land line and cell. :shrug:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

37. It's suspicious to me. Meanwhile, "Baby" at 50 is totally brilliant! :) She brings tears

to my eyes.

[JI7]

8. Let her win, the low info people who pay more attention to this than political news

will see how that side rewards failures.

[EOTE]

57. Bingo.

As of now, I kind of hope that she does win. What more perfect example of republicans propping up their losers regardless of their qualifications could you ask for?

[Suich]

10. I thought only the judges vote tonight...

...that there's no call-in or text voting.

[Pathwalker]

11. They changed the rules this season. IOW= it's rigged.

n/t

[gauguin57]

12. I think it's a combination of both???

Not 100 percent sure (I rarely watch the show this late in the competition).

[gauguin57]

13. Ugh. Now they're calling her "Bristol the Pistol." She has the personality of the halibut she cooked

on "Sarah Palin's Alaska" the other night.

Well, Sarah's movin' and groovin' in the audience. *wretch*

I'm turning it over to "House."

[bigwillq]

14. I am no longer watching.

Not since Bristol Palin made the final. What a joke. Guess Disney likes giving free advertising to Mama Bear.

[gauguin57]

16. TLC is giving Mama Grizzly free advertising. ABC is giving Mama Grizzly free advertising.

Fox is giving Mama Grizzly free advertising.

Liberal media? My ass.

[Nye Bevan]

15. YES! This is IMPORTANT, people!

Important. Important. Important. *Very* *very* important.

This is the kind of thing the DU Activist Corps was invented for.

[gauguin57]

17. Go ahead and scoff. When Sarah Palin is president, I'll wave to you from Canada.

Let the Palins win everything they're NOT entitled to.

[Nye Bevan]

18. Yes. Because if her daughter wins a reality TV show she *will* become president.

Definitely. Which is why this is *important*.

[nolabear]

46. You mistake this for the worday, Sweetie. This is the after-party.

VOTE PEOPLE!!! Don't let the mean girls win!

[shockra]

20. Bristol Stool Scale

Ironically, I got a nutritional video in the mail today (free from Mercy for Animals, with donation!) and just about choked with laughter at the timing.

Something came up about the "Bristol Stool Scale" which I'd never heard of before, but Bristol and poop were already correlated in my mind because of the finals coming up tonight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale

[ashleyforachange]

21. Its not important...Its just entertainment

However I love the show and Kyle is my favorite.

Phone lines, text votes (AT&T customers only) and online polls will open at the top of each performance show so that viewers can vote for their favorites. Phone and text lines will stay open for 30 minutes after the end of the show. Online voting will remain open until 11am (Eastern Time) the next day

To vote by text message, text the word "VOTE" to your favorite couple's number below from your AT&T phone.



Jennifer Grey & Derek Hough 800-868-3411
800-VOTE4-11

Text 3411

Kyle Massey & Lacey Schwimmer 800-868-3403
800-VOTE4-03

Text 3403

[gauguin57]

23. It was just entertainment until the Tea Party politicized it completely.

It may not rise to the level of "important," but those who think this has nothing to do with Sarah Palin's popularity (and her future) are kidding themselves.

[ashleyforachange]

28. I do think it has something to do with...

Palin's popularity. Everything they said at the beginning of the show was BS. Something is not right with the voting.

[Iggo]

56. You're right. I was just entertainment until it became political.

At that point, it became completely worthless.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

45. can you vote online?

I'd do that in a heartbeat. Cellphone= not useable right now.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

49. Yes. And HERE's THE LINK

http://cdn.abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars/vote

[donco6]

25. Like I'll be giving a dime to that stupid show.

Ell no.

[AngryOldDem]

59. Votes are free,

[gauguin57]

26. Just finished submitting my votes against the Palin juggernaut.

And I'm proud of it. Do what you want, people. I won't give an inch to these Tea Party people. I'll take them on in any trenches they want to fire salvos from ... if it be Fox News, the Republican primary or "Dancing With the Stars."

[Pathwalker]

27. Every word out of her mouth is political: The haters want me to lose.

I can't STAND her.

[nolabear]

47. She's right. The haters TOTALLY want her to lose.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

53. Yes, if you don't believe she belongs there now, she labels you as a hater. Acorns don't fall too

far from the proverbial tree.

[Pathwalker]

54. She has all the dancing talent of a Japanese robot. The sour look,

the nasty attitude, the blatant politicization with her every word, and the constant presence of that vile Mother of hers have absolutely destroyed what was once an enjoyable distraction, for me at least. Not even the Bugman(Tom Delay) or Tucker Carlson, who was booted off because he wouldn't leave his chair because he was too embarrassed to show how much he's enjoyed his partner's lap dance ever uttered a single political word on that show. When you have even less class than those two, you have none at all. I guess that makes me a hater. I can live with that.

[DeschutesRiver]

60. +1, Noticed that too. nt

[gauguin57]

29. Our local liberal newspaper columnist on the Palin-Palin DWTS situation

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/314908

Dancing with Bristol and Sarah
By Gil Smart
Lancaster Sunday News

"... These people seem to think that by voting for Bristol, they're proving a point. Because she's "trying so hard," and because Palin supporters identify so fervently with her — they're trying hard, too! — she deserves to win. In so doing, she can stick it to the meritocracy and prove it doesn't take special talent or acumen to make it to the top.

"Isn't this the rationale of those who support Bristol's mother politically?

"Sarah's the everywoman; Andrew Jackson meets reality television. Frustrated by the notion that governance takes some special insight borne of education or experience, Sarah Palin's fans prefer to think that feistiness and tenacity are enough — more than enough.

"This is why Sarah Palin will be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012. Never in my years of observing politics have I seen a constituency that identifies so strongly with a candidate. Her fans are welded to her psychologically; it's identity politics in spades. And the more you point this out, the more slavish their devotion becomes. ...

[Better Believe It]

31. Let her win. That will piss millions off who like that program and discredite the "vote".

And Palin won't be able to pose as a martyr for the right-wing cause.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

32. The problem is you have to pick one over the other

Splitting the vote doesn't help.

[Raine]

34. Everyone knows the baggers are cheating and it's rigged so they can

let her "win" she'll be even an bigger laughingstock for "winning" a rigged show. :silly:

[cherokeeprogressive]

35. I hope she wins.

What a hoot. As IF her winning a dance contest because some inbreds voted for her on their cell phones could get her mother elected to the Presidency. Anyone who thinks this is the case is waaaaay beyond help.

Voter fraud on Dancing With the Stars! We need an investigation! Dancing With the Stars is trying to steal the Presidency in 2012! Tea Partiers are helping them! Ahhhhh!

Go Bristol...

In the meantime, some of our young National Treasure will be outside the wire in Iraq and Afghanistan on Thanksgiving Day, while we're either whining silently about eating with people whose ideology we disagree with, or rooting against the Cowboys and Lions. They'll be foregoing dinner, football, and their own physical safety in a meaningless and illegal war.

But, but, but... the fate of the free world rests on the shoulders of the daughter of a quitter... right?

Go Bristol...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

36. Bristol was arrogant on the show and more than once commented about all of her "haters".

:puke:

[Rockholm]

38. If Palin wins, that will be the end of DWTS.

The show will have lost all credibility (if it ever had any). My local ABC morning show treats the show as a news item. Certainly ABC loves the attention this controversy is generating. Nice how ABC deflects the criticism that "there is no evidence of anyone manipulating the process." You betcha.

[Canuckistanian]

40. They might as well call it "The Bristol Show" if she wins

This isn't a real competition show any more.

[Fleshdancer]

42. Tonight was the first time I've watched the show in years....

1. Holy hell, Baby can dance the paso doble! I still don't like her nose job (totally not relevant, but I had to say it because I still can't recognize her and she was gorgeous before) but she killed it on the dance floor.

2. The cute kid from my daughter's tv show (no idea what his name is) was great! He's adorable and had amazing energy.

3. And then there was Bristol. Cell Block Tango is my all time favorite song of any musical and with that song comes great performance responsibility. Has she attempted sexy all season? What am I missing because, from where I was sitting, she had no business dancing to that song. Put her in a poofy princess dress, choreograph a stiff waltz, play a Disney song and call it a day. Seriously, who was responsible for that?

[nolabear]

48. It's a conspiracy. The haters infiltrated Hair and Makeup.

They're doing everything in their power to make her lumber around in their sabotaged shoes (the original meaning of sabotage, of course) and pout her sabotaged lips and haul that poor man around like a cavewoman so that if she loses it's all the conspiracy's fault and if she (shudder) wins she has riz above adversity to shine like a beacon for young teen activists everywhere!

[Fleshdancer]

50. ROFLMAO!!!!

:rofl:

That's the funniest thing I've read on DU in a loooong time!


:thumbsup:

[L0oniX]

51. BREAKING: MAN SHOOTS TV OVER PALIN 'DANCING' SUCESS.

http://www.digitalspy.com/odd/news/a288997/man-shoots-tv-over-palin-dancing-success.html

[cbdo2007]

52. Too late - I already voted 50 times for Bristol

Personally I think it's much more embarrassing for her to win such a shitty show than anything else.

[cleanhippie]

55. Really? Are you REALLY that concerned witht he outcome of a TV show? Really?

Does it really matter? Does it send a message either way? Really? Come on, put your energy toward something more constructive, man.