Can somebody just shoot me in the face or push me off a tall building?

[trumad]

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I have no idea on how to describe this.

[krispos42]

1. Looks like the conception of Sarah's 2nd grandchild. And de facto proof of evolution. n/t

[LibDemAlways]

2. She came in last. She'll probably be gone tonight.

Her "performances" (use the term loosely) have been lame all along, but the judges have given her higher scores than she deserves to keep her around. They can't do it any longer. She's the worst. Love how they bill her as a "teen pregnancy advocate." WTF? She's a joke.

[Angry Dragon]

5. "teen pregnancy advocate."

Does that mean she is for it??

[WhiteTara]

7. she advocates for teen pregnancy?

sounds right.

[RSillsbee]

31. Apparently she's safe for the week EOM

[LibDemAlways]

33. I know. The wingnuts must be out in force voting to keep her around.

[Wickerman]

3. I'm sure Mark is a great guy, and I know it's hard to make a living as a dancer

but he wishes he were somewhere else. Wow, that is the first time I have ever watched a DWtS episode. I'd like those 6 minutes back.

[leveymg]

4. She said it herself, "Moo!"

Do they ever give anything lower than a 6?

[LibDemAlways]

6. The lowest this season has been a "3." Those 6's were generous. I think the

judges have been instructed to give her every benefit of the doubt.

[herbm]

8. I still don't get the appeal of this show or what is so compelling about Bristol.

[AlbertCat]

28. I still don't get the appeal of this show

I love dance, and music! But I sure am tired of the arts being turned into sporting events!

If you want to see some good dancing and hear good music, go to the ballet. I suggest ABT, or Paul Taylor. Mark Morris has gotten really hit & miss lately.

[herbm]

38. I enjoy the ballroom dancing competitions on PBS but DWTS is so rodeo.

[Poll_Blind]

9. Will the Tralfamadorian test pilot PLEASE press the button now? n/t

PB

[trumad]

10. snarf...

If you watch her steps closely you'll see that she misfires on just about every step.

[madmom]

11. That reminded me of my daughter's dance recital, when she was 5 years old. There was

always one leader, who remembered most of the steps and everyone else was a step of two behind because after seeing it, they remembered and did it.

[K8-EEE]

12. She's gotta stop going to John Boehner's tanning salon

I just really am sick of the faux tans and neon teeth thing.

[ladywnch]

13. best look I've seen her wear.......I believe it is the fur of a past relative. n/t

[ladywnch]

14. well, other than the fact that she has no flow, musicality or life

in her performance.....and I think she missed some moves......she's quite mediocore.

[KansDem]

15. The woman who would be "First Daughter?"

Please...shoot me in the face and push me off a tall building.

[BigD_95]

16. This is dancing with the stars, right?

When did she become a star?

[LibDemAlways]

19. On that show "star" is a term used very loosely. Mostly

show-biz D-listers and has-beens. Lately they've been going with "reality tv" personalities like Kate Gosselin - who made a total ass of herself - and somebody who calls himself "The Situation" from Jersey Shore. These people are brought on not because they have any chance of winning, but to attract ratings. Palin is more or less in that category. ABC is apparently looking to attract viewers who are right wing nut cases.

[truthrocks]

17. It's all planned-she's just tired of working so hard-time to QUIT!

[oldhippydude]

18. yep

being taught by a master grifter.. she may never have to work

[RSillsbee]

20. Bristol Palin

Is a 19 YO kid who had the misfortune to enter the world through the wrong vagina. She can't dance but neither can half the "stars" on that show. Cut her some slack

[RockaFowler]

21. Then why did she accept the show??

If she was just "born to a vagina" as you say, then she should have told ABC no. But she didn't because she's a Media Whore just like her mother. And no, we shouldn't give her some slack. She's a 19 year old who should have known better.

Oh and Teen Pregnancy advocate - WTF is that

[RSillsbee]

24. She took the gig because they offered her 5 times the yearly salary for an RMA

100,000 bones, I'd have taken the gig too

[caledesi]

35. $$$ talks loudly in that "family." nt

[RSillsbee]

37. Are you telling me you'd turn down the gig?

Get out on the floor shake your ass and win, lose or draw you go home with 100 large and you'd say no?

[trumad]

22. She's in a God Damn ape suit -----

are you fucking serious.

[RSillsbee]

25. Am I serious for what ?

She was playing a part WTF is the big deal? If she was anyone other than the Caribou Barbie's kid you wouldn't care if she went on that stage naked

[trumad]

26. Boy--- you miss trhe whole fucking point don't you.

[RSillsbee]

29. I guess I do

I mean seriously, we're arguing about a television show that at its apogee doesn't rise above the level of bread and circuses. And you're trying to flay a kid who you wouldn't know existed except for an accident of birth.

This brutal hatred of those who don't share our values has always been one of the most disquieting things about the progressive movement to me.

[caledesi]

34. Brutal hatred???? But, but she did have a baby and did not

get married!!!! Oh those good OLD Republican hypocritical "values!!" Stick up for Bristol...so Republican!

It's the hypocrisy!!! Don't get married.....say Republicans...'Do as I say, not as I do.'

[RSillsbee]

36. Her mom might be a republican

We don't know much of any thing about her politics. I was getting laid when I was her age too, I have no stones to throw.

[lame54]

30. Did you see her evolve?

[tishaLA]

23. I hope Bristol stays because I loved her performance,

which I thought was very clever--and a pointed attack at her mother's rejection of the science of evolution. What could be more brilliant than to take the motif of a monkey wearing a tutu and that have it evolve into a human form? And, indeed, that the human form was always-already present in the monkey if only one knew where to look?

One thing I think the judges were wrong about was this idea that she was missing steps/making mistakes. It seems to me that her "missed steps" were a way of commenting on her mother's quitting things midstream: Bristol would "quit" in the middle of the dance and, knowing the camera was still on her, do something else, but always slightly akimbo and awkward in unexpected ways, as if each dance move (and each "missed" movement) were the dance form of malapropisms like "refudiate." Or, again, it could be that the lack of sync between Bristol and her partner was a way of "going rogue" in the context of ballroom, as if to say, "yes, there is the way one typically does it, and then there is the way I choose to do it, which is to eschew conventional thinking and modes of bodily belonging."

Her series of performances has been an excellent deconstruction of the logical fallacies underlying Sister Sarah's ideological pronouncements, so much so that I think Crystal might be the most slyly astute political commentator we have right now. It's been a weeks-long piece of astonishingly aware performance art. She and Laurie Anderson might want to work on a piece together for BAM when the Dancing With the Stars season is over.

[Tx4obama]

27. Total score of 18 for Bristol. The other pairs all got 20+ points.

I read that the 'stars'(cough) get $100,000 for the first show then each additional week $20,000
Bristol's been on the show five weeks so after she gets booted tonight she'll walk away with $180,000
She's NOT one of those 'hard-working Americans' that Sarah Palin is always spouting off about

[Tx4obama]

32. OMG !!! They kept Bristol and booted off Florence Henderson!

That's just not fair.
Bristol got 6,6,6 from the judges
Florence got 7,7,7 from the judges
This is the first time this season that the lowest scored pair wasn't sent home!

And to make things worse here's Sarah Palin's tweet about it:
"Florence Henderson... what a lovely lady! What a story! She reflects grace, beauty, energy, inspiration. America loves you, Florence." about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®