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Bristol Palin has responded to Margaret Cho’s blog post claiming that her mom, former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, “forced” her to compete on Dancing with the Stars to further her political career. Bristol penned an open letter to Cho on her Facebook page, (the same outlet through which she and her sister responded to some ‘haters’ by personally attacking them) denying those claims. Bristol stated that the DWTS people approached her, and in no way did her mom force her to compete on the show. The post from Bristol has since been removed. That might have to do with the way Bristol ended it, by cracking wise about gay women.
In a post she called “Pistol Whipped” she wrote that “the only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced her to do it. Sarah supposedly blames Bristol harshly and openly . . . for not winning the election,and so she told Bristol she “owed” it to her to do DWTS . . . .” Let me shamelessly steal from Saturday Night Live: “Really, Margaret? Really?”
I will give my friend credit for creativity, and extra points for getting so many “facts” wrong in so few sentences. Let me be blunt: my mom did not “force” me to go on DWTS. She did not ask me either. The show approached me. I thought about it. I made the decision. After first worrying for me in terms of being exposed to those who hate us for what we believe in, both my mom and my dad became my number one supporters. Anyone who watched the show could tell I performed better, and I felt better about myself, when they were in the audience. I wanted to make them both proud, but politics had nothing to do with it. Loving my parents had everything to do with it.
It saddens me that people would think that my mom would “blame” me for anything that occurred in the 2008 election–much less “harshly” and “openly.” I think that canard (there, I said it again), has been floating around since then also. I will set the record straight, though my mom already did in her bestselling book “Going Rogue”; there were a number of reasons President Obama won in 2008, but the primary reason was that the economy was starting to falter and the majority of voters thought Obama could do a better job than my mom and John McCain. It turns out, two years later, the majority of voters were wrong, but we can talk about that another time. The point is, I seriously doubt anyone who considers herself a student of American politics truly believes I impacted even one vote in that election.
There you have it. Why do I want to set the record straight? Because it is this type of hurtful and false narrative that people promote to make my mom look bad. For 20 years my mom had my back–and for the rest of my life I will have hers.
To my friend Margaret Cho, if you ever have a question, call me girlfriend. Don’t ever rely on “sources” who claim to know me or my family. You will be taken every time. And we need to talk. You say you “don’t agree with the family’s politics at all” but I say, if you understood that commonsense conservative values supports the right of individuals like you, like all of us, to live our lives with less government interference and more independence, you would embrace us faster than KD Lang at an Indigo Girls concert.
[From Bristol Palin's Facebook via Queerty]
This whole thing would have come across decently if only Bristol (or more likely the people who wrote this) left off the last paragraph. As far as jokes go that was pretty tame, but it was also completely unnecessary and tells you quite a bit about Bristol’s politics and how “supportive” they are of non-heterosexuals. (Margaret is married to a man but describes herself as bisexual.) Remember when Bristol’s sister Willow called someone the anti-gay “f” word on Facebook? They never apologized for that remark but did say something about how they shouldn’t have gotten all worked up on Facebook. And as opposed to this lengthy missive, we know that Bristol and Willow are the ones who fired off those insults.
Bristol is shown on 11/24/10. Credit: Fame. Margaret is shown on 9/17/10. Credit: WENN.com
