Margaret Cho on Bristol Palin: "She has grown up to be quite a homophobic person. Where did that come from? " Anybody want to answer that question for Margaret?

Courtesy of The News Tribune:

On “Dancing With the Stars,” you had some conflict with Bristol Palin. What happened? 

She has grown up to be quite a homophobic person. Where did that come from? I knew she didn’t want to do the show. She’s really quite a private person. But Sarah Palin had forced her to because Sarah blamed her for losing the 2008 election. So I had to tell everybody about that because it’s really good gossip and it’s funny and it’s true. She got very furious with me, or actually her mother’s speech writer got really furious with me in a long, obtuse homophobic rant at me. I can’t believe Bristol would sign her name to that because first, she can’t read, and she doesn’t know that many words.

Okay that is not only funny but also completely accurate concerning Bristol's response to a posting on Cho's blog. For those who may have forgotten back then Margaret said the following:

Why did Bristol do Dancing with the Stars? I heard from someone who really should know (really should seriously know the dirt really really) 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 (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 with America behind her all the way. Instead of being supposedly “handicapped” by the presence of her teen mom daughter, now Bristol is going to be an “asset” – a celebrity beloved for her dancing. I am sure the show wasn’t in on this (but who knows anything really). 

Although I don’t agree with the family’s politics at all, I really like Bristol as a person. She’s warm and incredibly supportive, and I think that she looks beautiful out on the dance floor. It’s heartbreaking that people are so awful to her about her weight. I think she looks fantastic, and why does everybody think they have a right to comment on our bodies? What are young girls going to take away from that? If people call her fat what kind of impact does that have on women who have similar body types – which is most of us??!! Still, it is a dance competition, and so I am sure that people feel they have the right to judge bodies and not just ability. That’s just wrong. 

Bristol is learning. She improved a lot, in my opinion. Her tango was fierce and really the best dance she did. You really do learn to dance in this competition! I am proud of her for shaking her ass! But keep in mind there are other forces at work here and it’s not just for the love of dance. 

Now I am scared I am going to wake up with a decapitated moose head in my bed.

Actually much of that is quite complimentary to Bristol, but since she dared to reveal a truth about why Bristol was on DWTS, which really pissed Bristol/Sarah/"The dark forces behind Sarah" off, clearly she needed to be taught a lesson and so Bristol/RAM/"The dark forces behind Sarah" responded on Bristol's fake Facebook page. Here is but a taste to give you some idea of the accuracy of Cho's statement in the interview:



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.

Oh yeah, that was totally written by a criminally undereducated, 20 year old with the political acumen of a talking parrot.

You know we all had mad fun picking this apart, and pointing out the insanity of anybody actually believing that Bristol wrote this post, a year ago, but looking back on it now I have to say it kind of makes me sad for Bristol the Pistol.

Bristol on November 23, at the end of DWTS.

After all as much as Bristol seems to have now shaped herself into the same kind of "Munchhausen by proxy" fame whore that her mother has always been, using her child as a source of income as well as a shield to deflect criticism, one has to wonder did she ever have a REAL choice?

I am becoming increasingly certain that Bristol had a baby sometime in late 2007/early 2008, and that this child is no longer consistently in her life. I will not go too far out on this limb right now, but I will say that there is evidence which certainly lends credence to this theory. This means that Bristol may have given up a child to protect her mother's reputation, and then in a fit of adolescent rage after learning that her mother was now going to fake her own pregnancy, become pregnant yet again in an act of pure defiance.

Few would argue that there is no end to the evidence that proves Sarah Palin is a highly manipulative and almost Faustian like presence in her children's lives, encouraging them to trade away their normalcy, integrity, and perhaps even babies, in exchange for money, a privileged life, and, in Bristol's case, fame, all in the service of keeping the Grizzled Mama's name and image in the public eye.

What Sarah Palin has seemingly done to her children is a level of emotional abuse that is almost unheard of, even for somebody like me who has dealt with abused children for well over two decades. In my opinion revealing the truth about Palin's "perfect family" might be almost as important in the long run as revealing the political calculations that launched her onto the national stage.

Any thoughts?