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Manhattan Diary by Cahir O'Doherty

Bristol Palin in hot water over Margaret Cho post

Posted on Monday, December 06, 2010 at 08:41 AM

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Oh dear, again? It seems that the girl named after merry olde England's biggest shipbuilding center can't stay off Facebook - or out of the headlines.

Bristol Palin took to the social network on Saturday night to blast comedienne and former rival on Dancing With The Stars, Margaret Cho.

In a post snidely titled "“Cha-cha-cha to Cho-Cho-Cho," Palin took issue with a statement Cho made earlier this week on her website.

Cho had written: "Sarah supposedly blames Bristol harshly and openly (in the circles that I heard it from) for not winning the election, and so she told Bristol she 'owed' it to her to do DWTS so that 'America would fall in love with her again' and make it possible for Sarah Palin to run in 2012'."

On Saturday Bristol fired back: "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."

Then Palin took an opportunity to promote her conservative politics by making what appeared to be a snide reference to Cho's bisexuality: "You say you 'don't agree with the family's politics at all, but 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."

I think we can all acknowledge that this isn't actually true. Current commonsense conservative values certainly do not support "the right of individuals" who aren't conservative - and lets face it, heterosexual, Christian and white.

But in the light of Palin's sister Willow's recent anti-gay tirade, also posted on Facebook, it's not surprising that people can also discern homophobia lurking in these words. Are these stock lesbian references in Palin's mind? If they are then they were a needless slur.

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chesapeake | Dec 20, 2010, 01:04 PM EST

Nothing exciting here... the bisexual - and relatively unfunny comedienne` - fabricating stories about s young woman. Young woman struck back. Story over. There is a moral to this story.

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laff1948 | Dec 17, 2010, 12:21 PM EST

Cahir, You're not by chance gay are you? Your writing does not belong on an Irish website. If you can't write about anything but how badly gays are treated, get off the air. You are a New York gay liberal, not the voice of Irish America. Holy Cow! Get over yourself.

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chriswalsh | Dec 11, 2010, 12:35 PM EST

Why can Margaret Cho, go around blaming Bristol's mother for she going on the show none of this was ever proven to be the truth. Bristol, has a right to defend herself and her family. Ms. Cho, was just jealous that she got the boot first. I don't see her print and mouth off on any of the other contestants. She needs to act her age and you n eed to quite being so bious your are supposed to be a journalist and treat everyone fairly.

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Laura Wilson | Dec 07, 2010, 06:37 PM EST

sarah palen started out great then she showed this country >> How she tucked her tail and RAN~!!!!!

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Monsoonman | Dec 07, 2010, 01:55 AM EST

Funny thing many of my Tlinkit friends like and admire Todd Palin and hope that his wife is elected President.

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dwyerda | Dec 07, 2010, 12:51 AM EST

Best way for the Palins to go away would be not report on everything they do. Then the media would have time to report on the failures of the liberal policies...

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warrenpoint00 | Dec 07, 2010, 12:06 AM EST

Ha ,ha ,ha how is it possible to be a native American Alaskan. Native Americans would be profoundly disgusted to be associated with the Palins...know what I think..bad as the pilgrims were and they were no help to the natives I believe they threw the Palins off the boat and unfortunately they were swept ashore in Alaska aka RUSSIA

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seanomelbourne | Dec 06, 2010, 09:45 PM EST

galway2001 we are not the homophobes,Obama haters.Grab a hold of yourself.

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galway2001 | Dec 06, 2010, 08:29 PM EST

i dont understand why does liberals have a problem with the palin family,they have the right to think and feel the way they want to,there is so much hate in the liberal they do anything to cut people down Listen you clowns we are here to stay

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gramfor4 | Dec 06, 2010, 07:57 PM EST

Now I know why I never cared for the Palins.

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seanomelbourne | Dec 06, 2010, 07:03 PM EST

Now we have three homophobic Palins if they are the best Alaska can produce I feel sorry for rest of them(Alaskans).The Palins are the gift that keep on giving to us Liberals.

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hollabackgurl | Dec 06, 2010, 06:50 PM EST

people called allentown are 1% of the population. if this is true could one say that he's an unnatural abberation, or a corruption of the natural order? or is he just a drive by non sequitur merchant who doesn't like his neighbors?

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clancy4unc | Dec 06, 2010, 06:48 PM EST

Why do you guys hate conservative so much? After reading the article, Cho is the one who should be in hot water, not Palin. Oh, and Sarah Palin is going to win the 2012 election and the repubs are going to sweep House and Senate. And then, we're coming after all you limptards! Better watch out. BWAHAHA!

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Laura Wilson | Dec 06, 2010, 06:20 PM EST

bristol *(go home)* thunder thigh's and try to raise your Illigamant child & Try to do a better job then your own mother

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allentown | Dec 06, 2010, 06:06 PM EST

According to the DADT Pentagon Commission, Homosexuals are approximately 3% of our population. If this is true, could one say that homosexuality is an aberation of a normal lifestyle.

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