Movieline's Favorite Palin Feud of the Day: Margaret Cho vs. Bristol
Let's just say The Social Network is probably Bristol Palin's favorite movie of the year. Either that or Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore. After blasting Keith Olbermann on her Facebook page last week for calling her the "worst person in the world," Bristol was at it again this weekend when she took on some recent comments made by Margaret Cho. Do Facebook ghostwriters get overtime for working weekends?
Apparently so! Look, I gave The Pistol the benefit of the doubt on Friday following her Olbermann treatise, if only because a.) Olbermann is a gasbag b.) She did make some valid points about him, even if she's still a hypocrite. In attacking Margaret Cho, however -- who earlier had said Bristol's mother Sarah had forced her to do Dancing with the Stars as punishment for losing the election -- Bristol's ghostwriter showed her true colors.
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.
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.
Burn? The question must be asked: Why would Bristol Palin -- who, as at least one person already pointed out, never even heard music from Chicago -- make a reference to kd lang and the Indigo Girls? And why would she use the word "canard" twice in less than a week. Maybe next time the Palin machine should proofread these Facebook missives to make sure they sound like the work of a high school graduate and not the work of Rich Lowry.
Meanwhile, for those keeping score at home, this is the third Bristol feud in the last two months -- and likely the silliest. Wrote Cho on her Twitter feed after this went up, "Must write song 'embrace me' with kd lang and indigo girls. Must!!!!!!!" Now that's a burn.

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Wait, is KD Lang performing at this concert? Or is it like Cho is just at an Indigo Girls concert, sees Lang, and embraces her? And would that embrace be any different than if she saw her at, say, a Starbucks?
Wow. That's going to replace the whale in my nightmares.
The media obsession with Palin - and mostly it involves blasting Palin at every opportunity - is only exceeded by the joy taken by those in the media in blasting her daughter.
How 'bout we throw a little scrutiny the president's way?
Why didn't anyone think to ask Bristol to join the "Keep a Child Alive" campaign?