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Posted on 11/19/2010 4:07:33 PM PST by kristinn
The million-dollar question among Dancing with the Stars fans these days? How did Bristol Palin make it into the season 11 finals?
"She deserves it," DWTS executive producer Conrad Green tells PEOPLE. "And a significant portion of our viewing audience believes that, too."
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Speculation has arisen about whether members of the Tea Party, many of whom strongly support Bristol's mom Sarah Palin, are involved in an organized effort to promote Bristol.
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.
But Jim Robinson, who founded the site, says there is no larger plan at work. "An organized conspiracy? I sincerely doubt that," he told PEOPLE. "The Tea Party's not that organized!"
And Green agrees that there's no stuffing of the virtual ballot-box, saying that the entire process – text votes, call-in votes and email votes – "is all overseen by the Broadcast Standards team, independent of us and the network to make sure that everything is absolutely done scrupulously."
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You’re welcome!
The ones that don’t vote at all are the largest conspiracy!
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Please ping me on Monday!
Sure thing!
On different threads, several people have written about calling/emailing in many votes. Although it’s just a silly tv show/popularity contest, why does that make it okay to cheat or encourage cheating? How is this moral?
Making "the world's most interesting man" look boring since 19XX...
“On different threads, several people have written about calling/emailing in many votes. Although it’s just a silly tv show/popularity contest, why does that make it okay to cheat or encourage cheating? How is this moral?”
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Here are the official voting rules posted at abc:
http://abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars/about-voting
Maybe I’m missing something but I see no rule here that’s been violated by those who’ve cast lots of votes. On the contrary, abc seems to be actively encouraging individuals to cast many votes.
Bristol Palin & Mark Ballas - Waltz - Week 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhe-UTRo8Jg&p=AC4C430F5E6237B3
Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas Dancing with the Stars week 7 Viennese Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amBFhfXH8o0&feature=related
I posted on one of the liberal sites “Oh fine NOW you are worried about voter fraud. Yet there were only crickets about Chicago, MN, and now AK.”
If Bristol wins this thing it will get very interesting. I know that there are many purists here on FR who sniff at the mere mention of even watching this show. But like it or not there are people who are learning to vote by watching these shows. Ignoring the block would be a mistake. obama clearly understood that.
“... I know that there are many purists here on FR who sniff at the mere mention of even watching this show. But like it or not there are people who are learning to vote by watching these shows. Ignoring the block would be a mistake. obama clearly understood that.”
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Good point. As you know, many people are influenced more by pop culture and other superficialities than by sound principles, and vote for whichever candidate they perceive to be more attractive, likeable, inspirational, cool, etc.
Sadly, it’s the “swing voters” (who wobble back and forth between voting for conservatives and liberals) who often decide elections.
HERaldo just had the freerepublic quotes on his show!! Love it!!!
Oh my goodness! “Geraldo at Large” is on Fox right now (PST) and Geraldo’s doing a segment on Bristol’s stint on DWTS. He just said that FreeRepublic dot com is one of the websites with an organized voting effort. He put up graphics of several posts from the FR DWTS threads about voting like democrats, and how to vote from multiple phone lines and using multiple email addresses. The only other website he likewise mentioned and quoted was hillbuzz.
How funny!
Geraldo and Jillian Barbarie are apparently reading it also!!! LOL they’re on Fox now talking about FR
Whoeraldo’s an ass but I hope he knows how to spell.
Really? !!!
Rarely watch Whorealdo, so I missed it.
I guess I’ll have to watch the replay...LOL.
Geraldo just said that FreeRepublic.com is a website devoted to Sarah Palin and clearly conservative.
See what trouble you started.
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