Archive for September, 2010
With your help, Bristol Palin could actually win Dancing with the Stars
Here’s a website that uses a computer dialing system to test how much support contestants receive on shows like American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.
The above data table is from that site, and it shows Bristol Palin as the estimated top vote-getter during the telephone voting period of Dancing with the Stars last night.
The computer send signals into the telephone numbers for each contestant, and register the busy tones they get, to determine how many people nationwide are trying to phone in for that contestant that week.
This method has had great success predicting the top vote-getters on American Idol and past seasons of Dancing.
It does not, however, factor in the online voting portion of the vote total…that’s where you can vote for Bristol via your computer at ABC.com, voting up to 11 times for her if you wish.
We have no idea how voting on Dancing with the Stars works, so we’d love a tutorial from you in the comments. We know that each contestant receives a score from the judges, and last night Bristol’s score was a 22/30…which is incredible for an amateur dancer who’s now only been up on a stage two times as a performer.
How is it determined who should go home each week?
Is it a combination of the judges’ scores and the audience voting, or is it just the audience that determines the outcome?
Because based on what we’re seeing in terms of support for Bristol, she has a very real shot at winning this thing. We’d be surprised if she did not make it to at least the top three, because even a coordinated effort by the Left to vote for other contestants to boot Bristol out would not be able to counteract the support the Palin family has nationwide that’s turning out in massive numbers to keep Bristol in this competition.
If you want to vote for her mom to be president in 2012, voting for Bristol in this Dancing with the Stars competition is very much helping Governor Palin’s chances of getting the Republican nomination in two years.
The better Bristol does, the more chances the Palins have to be in front of Independent voters, where people coast to coast get to know the family through young Bristol and start to think about how great it would be to have her as a First Daughter. The same is true for Governor Palin’s TV show about Alaska that’s set to debut soon. All of this is building the Palin brand and establishing this family as our next First Family.
We don’t see how the Mittens Romneys, Tim Pawlentys, Mitche Danielses, and others can combat this.
It’s all genius, really.
And the longer Bristol stays on the show, the better the plan works.
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UPDATE: Here’s an essay K. did on Bristol’s Dancing with the Stars performance, written for the C4P audience.
The latest from Alaska: write-in candidate LeNa JeBrowski announces sale of lunch boxes to support her campaign
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Alaskan Senator LeNa JaBrowski today announced her latest plan to gain traction in her bid as a write-in candidate for this fall’s election.
“Lunch boxes are the key to my victory,” JaBrowski insisted, between munches of curly fries in the Muldoon Avenue Arby’s in Anchorage, Alaska. ”See these curly fries here? Well, just imagine if you wanted to take them somewhere. Like, to school, or your friend’s house, or the psychiatrist’s office. All the places I should go during a day. Well, normally I just put curly fries in my pockets, or under my wig so they stay warm. But, the toaster told me to get a lunch box and then put my face on it and then not only could I have a nice way to carry my curly fries, but I can also publicize my already very popular write-in campaign so that everyone will know to vote for me. And, the toilet told me that for once in its life the toaster was right, and that I should SELL the lunch boxes down by the freeway overpass so that I could use the money to then buy MORE lunch boxes and then I can sell them too, so that if I should lose this election I will have something I can do with my life. I’ll be a lunch box tycoon!”
In New York City, a chagrined HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy chased her much put-upon maid Helga throughout her penthouse, demanding to know why no one thought of lunch boxes as the salvation for her own doomed 2008 bid for the Senate. ”Lunch boxes? Lunch boxes could have made me, like you know, a Senator? What are lunch boxes? Do they sell these at Bergdorf’s? Did Faberge make any lunch boxes? If LeNa JaBrowski’s dad made her a Senator, and her dad wasn’t even a Kennedy, like my dad, then why aren’t I, like, you know, a Senator too? Why don’t I have a lunch box? HELLLLLLLLLLGAAAA!!! Bring me a lunch box!”.
Lunch boxes.
The magical, reality-altering power of lunch boxes.
This is — seriously — the best hope either LeNa JaBrowski or HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy really have of ever being elected Senator.
Lunch boxes.
QUESTION: Did anyone ever figure out what this thing was over Norway?
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Do you remember this light that shined over Norway in December 2009?
We never saw a good explanation for what this was.
Did anyone out there ever figure out what caused this light?
The Simpsons made fun of Obama's unearned, ridiculous Nobel Prize this Sunday
The Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced on The Simpsons
Krusty the Klown wins the Nobel Prize...for being awesome
Krusty leaves Springfield for Norway to accept his Nobel Prize, flying on a plane that looks like Air Force One, with a Marine choir singing his theme song, just like Obama did to accept HIS bogus Nobel Prize
On Sunday, FOX aired The Simpsons’ episode “Elementary School Musical”.
We haven’t watched this show in years, but tuned in because this episode had some kids from GLEE in it, and we wanted to see how they did (super brief cameo).
Imagine our surprise when the show’s B-story involved Krusty the Klown winning a Nobel Peace Prize…for doing nothing.
The Simpsons were sitting on their famous orange couch, watching “The Nobies” award announcement, when they were stunned to learn that the Klown had won the Peace Prize, which Lisa Simpson called the most important award on the planet. Little baby Maggie filled her diapers, she was so stunned.
This is the EXACT SAME REACTION just about everyone in the world, even Obama cultists, had last year when it was announced Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for “being awesome” and “for saying Hope a lot”. Except, hopefully without as much noticeable diaper filling.
No mention of Obama, directly, is made in the episode…and The Simpsons is a Lefty show that regularly takes sharp jabs at conservatives while praising Obama in particular (in the 2008 Halloween Treehouse of Horrors episode, Homer is seen voting for Obama, and in another episode last year Michelle Antoinette was depicted as a sort of superhero First Lady with bulging biceps who came to Springfield to give Lisa encouragement…with the whole town falling over itself to fawn over the current First Spouse).
It’s interesting to us that the show would take this Nobel Prize jab…at the Nobel Prize Committee, really, because they are the ones who still look like clowns for giving this award to Obama.
In the episode, the Nobel Prize turned out to be fake…it was just a scheme to get Krusty to Europe so he could be tried before The World Court at The Hague. From there the show made fun of how ridiculous the EU is, and how easily Europe is fooled by hucksters like Krusty (he escaped the charges brought against him by showing a video of him demanding mixed potato chips while in South Africa, and then claimed he was responsible for the end of apartheid…and The Hague believed him).
Tuesday Open Thread: September 28th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Tuesday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
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Can someone please post to this thread any YouTube videos of Bristol Palin’s appearance on Dancing with the Stars last night?
We have the performance video, but we’d like to have videos of the times Governor Palin was shown on the show, as well as Bristol’s judging and the clip of Bristol and Mark in Wasilla. Please post in the comments below…and we’ll put them up in a Bristol Palin How Did She Do Results Watch Thread later today.
REMEMBER: you can vote for Bristol up until 10am or so today, so please go to ABC’s site and vote for Bristol. There are thousands of you who come here and read us every day. ABC lets people vote 11 times for Bristol with each email address. All of us here at Buzzquarters have registered three email addresses with ABC for voting (write them down on an index card and tape that to your monitor with a reminder note to vote for Bristol every Monday through the competition).
Just say 3,000 of you help us actively vote for Bristol during this competition.
Now, just say that all 3,000 of you do what we’ve done and register 3 emails with ABC for the voting. You can create free email accounts at gmail.com to use solely for this voting, for those of you who are paranoid about registering an email with ABC, for whatever reason.
That would be the equivalent of 9,000 voters…and if all 9,000 people voted for Bristol 11 times…that would mean HB could generate 99,000 votes for Bristol Palin every Monday.
Yes, voting is a pain. Registering talks a few minutes and sitting at the computer to vote each week will probably take you 15 minutes every Monday. Yes, we know you have children who are screaming in the background or you need to rehearse with that Jefferson Starship cover band you are in, but keeping Bristol in this competition means a lot to us on a personal level.
What the Left did to Bristol in 2008, and the years since, was wrong. They went for her jugular to get to her mother, and that would never have been allowed to happen to the Obama girls…or to Chelsea Clinton…or to the Kerry or Gore girls or the children of any Democrat we can think of. The Left declared all-out-war on an 18 year old girl.
Now, Fate’s given Bristol a chance to have some fun, on a show that’s apparently immensely popular with many Americans. We know how much fun we all have when we take part in various charity shows here in Chicago, and get asked to be in little numbers up there on the stage. It’s a once in a lifetime chance for Bristol to dress up, hit the stage, and really shine in the spotlight in a positive way.
We want this young woman to have every minute she can hearing those applause…because she earned this adulation with the quiet dignity and grace she showed facing down all of the malicious attacks that were launched against her.
Bristol Palin has a lot of class. We admire her. And more than that, we have a gut instinct to want to protect this young lady the way we would any of the sweet, Bristol-esque girls we were friends with back in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Nothing can ever make up for the evil the Left pelted at her, but we want to keep Bristol in the show to give her this treat she deserves.
So, just imagine if we could, together, conceivably send 100,000 votes to her each week…just off this little site…and if Palin-supporting sites coast to coast did the same thing with all their members.
Does any other contestant on this show have that sort of love coming his or her way?
Go vote if you haven’t already — and help even the karmic scales for a young lady who took so much grief, and now deserves the chance to shine.
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Sad news from Hollywood that actress Gloria Stuart has passed away.
Stuart played “Old Rose” in the movie Titanic in the late 90s…dying two days ago at age 100.
In 1998 or so, Stuart came to Cleveland when one of us worked in a fancy hotel there…she was in town for an exhibit on the Titanic that was touring nationally, and she was a pleasure to deal with in person. So kind, and so lively. A very, very nice woman.
We also remember her on the Tonight Show promoting Titanic when Jay Leno played clips from old movies, telling her how good she was in all of them. ”That wasn’t me. That was Alice Faye,” she told him. It was a very cute moment we never forgot…we’ve never particularly liked Jay Leno, so to see him look like such an ass was hilarious. Stuart could have covered for him and pretended it was her in those clips and only film majors at NYU would have probably known the difference, but she instead busted Leno’s chops in the nicest way possible.
We remember the day Titanic came out. It was the same day Tomorrow Never Dies was released. We saw four movies that day: Titanic. Tomorrow Never Dies. Titanic. And then Titanic. We must have seen that movie in theaters seven times before it finished playing…and we cried every time. We haven’t watched the movie since 1998…but plan on seeing it one more time, on April 15th, 2012 when we’ve heard it will be re-released for a special 100th anniversary showing to honor the Titanic’s sinking.
Admit it: you can’t listen to that song without thinking of someone you loved and lost. Or, some funeral this was played at in the late-90s, early 2000s.
Did you know they almost built a life-size replica of the Titanic in Cleveland that they wanted to use as a floating hotel in one of the many Springfield-monorail-grade schemes to “revitalize downtown and the lakefront”? And that this was not the craziest or most unrealistic thing they wanted to do in Cleveland, not by a longshot.
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This is not Mayor Daley. At least we hope not.
This is Mayor Daley, and he does not stalk Tiffany.
Last night we watched the documentary “I Think We’re Alone Now” about two obsessive fans who stalk the singer Tiffany.
One of these fans is a man with Asperger’s who looks disturbingly like Mayor Daley.
We’ve met Tiffany a few times now, because she routinely comes to Chicago to perform for Pride or Market Days during the summer. She’s a very nice person. Probably the best part about her is that she knows she will never be a big star again, but that she will always be able to make a decent living performing her hits at gay festivals around the country. She’ll be 80, and gay guys won’t forget her, and will still think it’s cool to hear her sing “I Think I’m Alone Now” in a dark club somewhere. Deborah “Don’t You Call Me Debbie” Gibson on the other hand is delusional; when she last played Pridefest here in Boystown, she talked between sets about her acting “career”, how her first love in life is “the THEE-AH-TOUR”, and how she’s on the verge of “being bigger than ever, thanks to the Internet”. Debbie was also very nice to everyone backstage, but she’s a crazy person. Both she and Tiffany are 80s starlets who are well-remembered, especially in the gay community, but neither of them is due for any comeback.
Tiffany gets this, and at Pride she even said, “Hey, I love being here. I get to sing for the rest of my life and not wait tables or get a real job. I’m a mom, I still can rock a pair of leather boots, and all you guys showed up to see me. Life is good. I am blessed”.
So, it was really creepy watching this documentary about people who are obsessed with her…especially since one of the guys looks so much like Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.
The absurdists in us can’t stop thinking about what it would be like if the REAL Mayor Daley spent his free time stalking Tiffany, or Debbie Gibson, or maybe Jayne Child or others from the 80s. How strange that would be. During press conferences, every so often, he’d lose it and start softly singing “Children beeeehavvvvve…that’s what they say when we’re together…” His aides would kill his mic, and handlers would get him out of the room, with someone possibly texting Tiffany to let her know “the Mayor is off his meds again, so stay away from Chicago for a few days”.
The documentary is zero budget, but it’s fascinating and well done.
Why anyone needs to watch Hollywood scripted garbage when there’s a world of fascinating documentaries to watch is just beyond us.
The absurdity of Rahm Emanuel becoming Mayor of Chicago
The media’s reporting that Rahm Emanuel will be leaving the White House by Friday of this week — and the way they put it, Emanuel’s just going to move all his stuff right into Mayor Daley’s office, no election required, as the media’s declared him to be Chicago’s next Mayor.
We just don’t see this happening, as we’ve talked about consistently on this site for some time.
People hate Rahm Emanuel in Chicago, because Rahm Emanuel is a foul-mouthed, mean-spirited, vindictive, jackass.
Many people think Mayor Daley is a jackass, but we actually really like the guy. He’s corrupt. He’s more political machine than man. But, he’s polite in person, kind to everyone we’ve ever known who’s dealt with him, and honestly loves the city of Chicago more than himself. We truly believe that. He’s a good man who is the product of a childhood spent growing up in the machine, and the machine is all his father ever taught him…but his mother, our former Chicago First Lady Sis Daley, must have been a strong influence on him too, because that woman loved this city and fought for it to have world-class amenities for its citizens (like the Chicago Cultural Center, which she helped save from the wrecking ball when idiots wanted to tear the building down to build a parking lot).
Rahm Emanuel has no good in him.
He is not a good man, and he cares about nothing but himself.
He’s also delusional, since he told people for years he’d be Speaker of the House…if he wanted it.
Yah, right.
Emanuel’s made too many enemies to be Mayor of Chicago. After 21 years of the current Mayor Daley…and if you count the 21 years the first Mayor Daley was in office…that’s over 42 years of the same family controlling this town. Having Rahm Emanuel waltz in and claim the throne just doesn’t sit well with people…particularly because of how abrasive and nasty Emanuel is.
He wants out of the White House, and this running for Mayor bit is a great excuse for him to bolt ship, but we really and truly don’t see him even winning the Democrat nomination for Mayor.
It sure is going to be fun for us to do everything we can to stop him. You can count on that.
We’ll keep you posted on everything we hear on the ground with this…but we really can’t see a path to victory for this man, even considering the fact Republicans won’t bother to run a candidate for Mayor, and it will just be the Democrat nominee versus a collection of random no-name crazy people.
Never a dull moment in Chicago.
Bristol Palin on Dancing with the Stars is a glimpse at what the 2013 Inaugural Ball will look like
We really hope Mark Ballas stays in touch with Bristol Palin after the Dancing with the Stars competition is over, because watching her performance tonight all we could think of was “We are going to see this young lady dancing these moves at her mother’s Inaugural Ball in January 2013″.
And we hope Mark, or an equally talented young dancer, is Bristol’s partner out there in the middle of a parquet floor somewhere in Washington, looking so beautiful, and making her mom just as proud as she shows the crowd some of her “Dancing with the Stars” moves.
Just look at how proud Governor Palin and young Piper are at the end of this clip.
Quick: name one — just one — of Mitt Romney’s sons, “The Five Brothers”.
Tell us something about Tim Pawlenty besides “he’s so boring”.
Do you even know what Mitch Daniels looks like?
Yah, thought so.
How do you think Bristol Palin did on Dancing with the Stars?
How many times have you watched the clip above?
While watching it, were you clapping along, cheering, and feeling a sudden burst of optimism for the fate of our country, seeing the Palin family on TV?
Have you cast your votes for Bristol yet with all the email addresses you own?
If not, best get on that.
Mittens Romney is probably crying into his soggy sandwich somewhere: Archie Comics anoints Governor Palin the 2012 GOP nominee
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This is really fascinating, and we’re not sure how the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is going to stop Governor Palin’s presidential campaign.
In our opinion, there is only one scenario where she’s not the 2012 nominee: if she decides, for whatever reason, that she doesn’t want to be president.
Archie Comics is running a series where there’s a student election in Riverdale, and that makes the kids think of the next presidential election, where Obama and Governor Palin are going to duke it out.
These covers are so good that we want them as posters up on the walls here at Buzzquarters.
The Archie people are Leftists, which is clear in the article about this series when they claim that both Obama and the Governor “want what’s best for America”.
We know Governor Palin would do anything for this country, that’s how much she loves it, and wants what’s best for it.
Obama, on the other hand, wants what’s best for Obama, has never had a burning love for this country, and growing up overseas in a Muslim country actually learned to hate America and carried that hatred through his adult life, where he spent 20 years sitting in the pews of Jeremiah Wright’s hate-church listening to G** Damn America echoing through the air. We’ve yet to see this man, our current president, show any outward love and admiration for the exceptionalism of this country.
So, we beg to differ with the Archie people on that.
In other pop culture bits, Governor Palin has been turning up as President Palin on TV shows that skip a few years into the future. The TV show Supernatural did an episode that’s five years in the future, and Governor Palin won the 2012 election in that future.
These pop culture predictors aren’t always spot-on, of course, because in many alternate history novels Hillary Clinton became the 44th President, with one time travel series set on the USS Hillary Clinton aircraft carrier (a George H.W. Bush-class fusion-powered ship nicknamed “The Mighty Hill” with a ship’s motto of “It Takes A Carrier”) and shows as far back as Sliders in 1994 predicting a president Hillary in the White House. Which would have happened, if the DNC had not wanted Obama to be the nominee in 2008, setting us all on a different course.
Can the RNC take the nomination from Governor Palin and give it to Mittens Romney?
That’s their plan — and we tell you that this is what the Romney Guys are working towards every single day, trying to do to Governor Palin what the DNC and media did to Hillary Clinton in 2008. Because “it’s Romney’s turn” and “he’s wanted to be president since the 1970s”. Those are, seriously, the most compelling reasons any of these people can offer for a Romney campaign. ”It’s his turn”. Meanwhile, the Cocktail Party GOP elite are refusing to hit Democrats hard with Obamacare this fall because they do not want to damage Mittens Romney’s chances in 2012, since Romneycare originated all of this.
The more the publics sees Governor Palin as the 2012 nominee, the harder it’s going to be for the GOP to take this from her, especially since conservatives in this country saw what Democrats did to Hillary Clinton. Whether these people liked Hillary or not, they know she was shanked by the DNC…and even her harshest critics say Democrats “did her wrong”.
That’s something else the Romney Guys are going to have to overcome. They might be working hard for him on the ground trying to do whatever they can to steer the nomination towards him, but the Cocktail Party is in a precarious position with this stuff. That anger people have for the DNC can easily transfer to the Cocktail Party if people coast to coast see these guys trying to elevate “it’s his turn” Mittens over Governor Palin…and the will of the people.
BREAKING: Rick Lazio drops out of New York Governor's race — for once, an establishment candidate does the right thing
FOX is reporting that Rick Lazio is dropping out of the New York Governor’s race…which should help Tea Party candidate Carl Paladino.
This is a shocker, because so many Cocktail Party establishment favorites, like Lazio, decide to embark on fools’ errands and stay in the race just to siphon votes away from the conservative or Tea Party-backed candidates (see Charlie Crist, LeNa JaBrowski, and others).
Keep monitoring the New York political pages today…let’s see how quickly Lazio’s backers get behind Paladino.
When he beats Andrew Cuomo, it’s going to be quite an earthquake in the Empire State.
Crazy people pushing third party candidates might actually hurt Democrats for once
For decades now, the DNC has used third party candidates to hurt Republicans.
They’re doing it again this year, by pushing Charlie Crist in Florida (Independent candidate), LeNa JaBrowski in Akaska (write-in candidacy), and Rick Lazio in New York’s Governor’s race (he’s the Conservative Party candidate, and he’s currently siphoning 9% of the vote away from Carl Paladino, in what is a winnable race for Republicans).
Because this is what third party candidacies do — and anyone who ever votes third party needs to understand how foolish this is: they throw the race to Democrats, and are designed to do that.
But, there’s great news today in the form of crazy people coast to coast who think Obama is not radical enough, and is not sufficiently beholden to the Cult of Anthropogenic Global Warming…so they are declaring their intention to run a Green Party primary challenge to Obama in 2012.
This will be an insane person, such as Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean, Ralph Nader, or some other nut.
Obama will have no trouble winning the primary…and he will be the Democrats’ nominee, but there seems to be a good chance that a great many of his cultists will be angry with him enough to not vote when the general election rolls around.
This should be highly encouraged…because the more alienated these lunatics feel, the easier it will be to defeat Obama’s re-election plans.
Go, Greens, go!
