The Real Reason Bristol Palin Danced With the Stars?

Dancing With the Stars ended its season last week, but it just won't go away. To wit, former contestant Margaret Cho recently went on her blog to discuss third-place-finisher Bristol Palin's reason for joining the show: "The only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced her to do it. 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. 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."

Remember though, this is second-hand gossip coming from a person who Cho says "really should know (really should seriously know the dirt really really)." Which is to say, though we wouldn't put anything past Alaska's former half-term Governor, we'd take Cho's words with a grain of salt.

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By Garth Johnston in Arts & Entertainment on December 2, 2010 12:00 PM

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Madman

What the hell is "Dancing with the Stars?" Is it a program put on at a Planetarium? Or is it another low-brow attempt to "entertain" and "salve" the ill-educated masses and distract them long enough for the rich to take a few trillion more from those of us that once hoped to remain in the middle-class and enjoy some semblance of a decent existence? Perhaps I answered my own question!

Potty Boy

I would do them in this order: Cho, Bristol and then Sarah.

ANGRYGOD11

As a dedicated hater of Dancing With the Stars, hasn't this crappy show always had D-list "celebrities" with 2 left feet?
The only time I saw the show was when obese Steve Wozniak (Apple Co-founder) "danced" with no talent and a broken foot. His many techie fans kept voting for him to go on. WTF?

ktinnyc

She's fat, devoid of talent, and there is no reason she should have been called a star,

Yeah, I'm talking to both Bristol Palin and Margaret Cho.

robingee

Cho is so not fat. She's smokin'.

ktinnyc

She can lose weight for short periods of time but she always reverts to fat, it's her natural state.

Gwinny

I hate the Palins with every breath in my body, but c'mon -- Bristol is *not* fat.

Spirit of 76

Levi Johnston would just say she has more cushion for pushing.

ktinnyc

She is possibly the only person to go on that show and actually gain weight.

Jen Chung

Can't we all just appreciate paranoid conspiracy theories please? And on that note, read this Vanity Fair feature on Randy and Evi Quaid.
http://www.vanityfair.com/holl...

Guest

Hilarious- but the article also contains a photo of a half-naked Evi Quaid. Why would you do this to us, Jen? haha!

SFNY

Oh, yeah! It's an amazing piece. It's as if he caught her paranoid schizophrenia...

Guest

Why was this article written? Who cares!!

Guest

Did it really take Margaret Cho to blog about it for America to realize the reason behind Bristol's ridiculous run on that show?

keithbacker

This post reveals the pathetic obsession with all things Palin and says far more about the author's insecurities and other shortcomings than any faults with the Palins. If Sarah Palin and her family are as dumb and irrelevant as you claim, please treat them as such. Both sides will be much healthier and happier.

slickshoes

what does this have to do with nyc?

FunChop

Exactly!

And why are we looking?

oinonio

Isn't there a fairytale (Hans Anderson?) about someone child dancing to death. Stupid she may be, but it smacks of child abuse (yes, I know she's twenty).