Insiders say a Bristol Palin win will kill Dancing with the Stars. Here's why:
Bristol Palin’s Win Could Kill ‘Dancing With The Stars’ : ‘No One In Hollywood Will Ever Want To Be On The Show Again!’
As Bristol keeps advancing in the competition and far more accomplished dancers are let go, her chances of winning are becoming very real and producers of the hit show are VERY nervous!
...Naughty but Nice Rob Shuter over at Popeater spoke to a source who said, “Any creditability the show had will be over. It will go from being a dancing competition to a popularity competition where whoever has the most rabid fan base will always win no matter how little talent they have.”
“Another problem the producers foresee is that after Bristol wins no one in Hollywood will ever want to be on the show again,” an ABC source says. “Why would a real star want to compete and lose against someone like Christine O’Donnell or Levi Johnston. It’s humiliating. The producers know they are in big trouble for sure.”
The producers appear to be publicly trying to play it cool - nothing to see here, move along. Everything's just as it should be.
But I think they are missing a huge point that Americans don't like ballot-box stuffing and they don't like the obvious, inherent unfairness of the consistently worst dancer winning a dancing competition!
Please stop teaching my children that everyone will get a trophy just for participating...
Not everybody gets a trophy. We should start correcting our children's work in red ink again. I mean, I'm tired, what are we? Spin the color wheel now? You corrected my child's work in red ink. "Yes, I did." Well, that's a little traumatic. You know what's even more traumatic? If little Johnny keeps getting these answers wrong when he goes out into the big bad world and he's eaten. That's worse. There is some sort of element of competition to life. "Oh, that's not natural." Really? Go watch the lions eat the weakest.
-Glenn Beck, February 22, 2010
Bristol has consistently received the lowest scores from the dancing experts - the judges. Her paper has the most red ink.
What is the point of competing for a trophy if a political agenda, and not the competition itself, determines the winner?
Americans also don't like spoiled, obnoxious, bratty children who behave without grace, good manners or an ounce of humility. Sore winners don't capture the hearts of anyone except the most jaded, blindly partisan fanatics.
Why would any competitor pour their heart and soul into this competition in the future when there is simply zero chance to win from the start? If the winner is a foregone conclusion, why bother? Why bother to compete - or watch? It's lame and boring.
I'll be surprised if DWTS can cobble together even a group of C-lister has-beens for next season.
"Sarah Palin less popular than zombie horde"
Sarah Palin's unprecedented negatives.
Palin show ratings plummet
The Palins ruin everything they touch.
On a semi-related note:
IMPORTANT ACTION:
Apparently we will be subjected to another dose of Glenn Beck's insidious message of fascism and hatred being jammed down our throats at our local movie theaters. A Beck production called "Restarting the Engine" will be showing soon - Thursday December 2 with an encore on Wednesday December 8, 2010. Talk about fascist indoctrination. I called my local theater to complain. The manager completely agreed with me but said they were being forced to show it by their distributor! How's that for a "free" market?!
This involves Cinemark and Century theaters. www.cinemark.com, 1-800-CINEMARK.
I have contacted several people at Cinemark and related companies. I AM TOLD THEY TAKE CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS VIA EMAIL SERIOUSLY - EMAIL CONTACT FORM HERE.
I complained that Cinemark is providing a conduit to bring hate speech, racism and sexism directly into the community and that is unacceptable. I provided a few examples.
Get a group of your local County Dems together and protest at the theater. Need ideas for signs? Try HERE or HERE for some excellent examples. You can have an effective sign without being nasty. In fact, the clever, funny ones are usually the best.
Hand out fliers with Beck's greatest hits: LINK LINK Either print out as-is or compose your own fliers based on that information or other information from the easily-searchable MediaMatters.
Let's get in the habit of protesting this crap whenever it comes into our neighborhoods.
Make sure to get a picture of you and your sign (or at least your sign out front of the theater!) and post your pictures to FLICKR with the tag of BeckEngineProtest.