After the disaster that was known as the Attack of the Tea Partiers, the pundits will be spending the next few days analyzing the results of Tuesday’s elections.
But here’s one important aspect that will be overlooked by the network news, CNN, Fox News, et al.: Dancing with the Stars.
Okay, we all know that most of the “celebrities” on that show are about as well known as a lounge singer at an airport hotel. I usually don’t recognize half the names when each cast is announced. I guess I have a limited knowledge of models, ex-football players, ABC soap stars and reality legends-in-their-own minds.
But Bristol Palin’s claim to fame? Her mom, whom I confess to only learning about in 2009 when John McCain announced her as his running mate.
Oh, and Bristol became a “teen activist” because she got knocked up. Yep, if her mother hadn’t become a national public figure, Bristol wouldn’t be strutting her salsa moves on the tube but be living in Wasilla up to her non-shimmering hips in Huggies right now. Certainly she’s able to leave behind her kid with Sarah’s nannies while her compadres all over the country, 20 yr olds with one-and-a half year old toddlers, are trying to work at the McDonalds while also taking care of their children.
So even if DWTS has had pseudo celebs such as an astronaut, a co-founder of Apple, even a politician (Tom DeLay). Even if politics has been intertwined with entertainment ever since then presidential candidate Richard Nixon appeared on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In asking that enduring question, “Sock it to me?” back in 1968. Even if John McCain and Al Gore have hosted Saturday Night Live, does that mean we need to see Bristol paso-dobling with mom watching in the audience? With tea partiers calling in droves to vote to keep her on the show? Because, let’s face it, even Florence Henderson is a better dancer.
First DWTS. Then the election. Pray tell what’s next for conservatives on television: George W. Bush on Glee, Dick Chaney playing himself on CSI? People will fear turning on television, countless advertising dollars will be lose, more jobs will evaporate into thin air.
Those tea partiers must be stopped. Stop the madness. Stop voting for Bristol.
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