Despite clomping around the stage like a horse in spandex, Bristol Palin — the only “Dancing with the Stars” contestant lazy and undisciplined enough to gain weight on the show — made the finals of “DWTS” when the talented and graceful Brandy was voted off. The injustice will be particularly bad news for Steven Cowan, the 66-year-old Wisconsin man who blasted a hole in his TV with a shotgun while watching Palin dance.
[Steven] Cowan, 66, allegedly became so enraged by Palin’s success that he actually fired a shotgun round into his television, triggering a 15-hour standoff with Wisconsin cops…
As Palin was dancing [Monday night], Cowan “jumped up and swore, saying something to the effect of, ‘The f*cking politics.’ Steven was upset that a political figure’s daughter was dancing on this particular show when Steven did not think that she was a good dancer,” the complaint notes.
He was sitting in the Dane County jail last night when Palin landed a spot in the “Dancing with the Stars” finals. However, a sheriff’s spokesperson told TSG that Cowan “currently does not have access to television.” [The Smoking Gun]
Cowan’s not alone in his feelings: the audience booed when Palin made the finals last night, and frankly I hope this sinks the entire GD franchise. Hey, you f*cking assh*les making decisions about TV: keep the politics out of my entertainment. That means f*ck your stupid Bristol Palin/The Situation abstinence PSA (video below), f*ck PBS for cutting Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin jokes, and f*ck Tina Fey for needing to tell political jokes. F*ck all your stupid politics. I don’t even like it when Nucky Thompson talks about the election on “Boardwalk Empire,” and that’s politics from 90 years ago. Everyone can just go get bent.
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F*ck all your stupid politics. I don’t even like it when Nucky Thompson talks about the election on “Boardwalk Empire,” and that’s politics from 90 years ago. Everyone can just go get bent.
Sounds like a stump speech if I ever heard one. MATT FOR PRESIDENT! 2012! FUCK EVERYONE’S POLITICS!
If this Takin’ Back America stuff means advancing white dullards at the expense of talented black folk, well… you can sign me up!
I always vote for whomever makes me feel better about being fat and stupid. Go Bristol!
/eats third Steak and Shake chili mac 5-way
Hey, if you dont like it, go to Russia!
No political jokes? But Matt, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and homophobia only go so far.
Your spell check changed whore to horse.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
/gratuitous Simpsons references
Won’t somebody think of the television?
The bitch inside of me, who am I kidding, the bitch that I am thinks it is awesome that she has gained weight on this show.
F*ck Larry Flynt for asking the question, “Who’s Nailin’ Palin?”
A least Nucky Thompson has the decency to be more a puppeteer than a politician.
I had tried to give Bristol the benefit of the doubt. I mean, it’s not her fault that the Tea Party is crazy and is voting for her to “piss off the liberals” or whatever.
But then, last night, Bristol actually said she deserves to win because she has the least dancing experience. Never mind the fact that nobody but Jennifer Grey has any, either. And then she whined about how the judges weren’t giving her better scores, when they’ve actually been super generous in not laughing at her every week.
Oh, Bristol. Don’t think you’re good just because the Tea Party likes you. They like your mom, so they obviously have low standards.
Hey, wait a minute, Warren Harding is an honorable man with at least one other family!
Why was Kirstie Alley in a video with the Situation?
“Fuck Uproxx for making me dilute my rant with asterisk-riddled curse words!”
Would’ve been a perfect time to bite the hand that feeds you, Ufford.
I’d hit her in the snizz with a big stick
I just can’t believe that the guy who shot his TV wasn’t from Florida or Ohio. Disappointing.
“I like abstinence. I mean, it has the word ‘abs’ in it.”
Fuck it, I laughed.
Go Republicans!!
Fuck you, you stinking liberals…
Vote the sad socialist out of the Presidency in 2012….
…also….who the fuck WATCHES this shit …AND votes..?
What’s sad is that The Situation is too much of a pussy to fuck Bristol Palin.
Ronnie woulda been balls deep in that pig.
Back in my days, she would be called a HOGGER, to be picked up if one was desperate about 2 AM.
I guess you’re torn, being a Marine and an American, but also having the intelligence of someone that should, despite the egregious propaganda being thrown at you at all angles, be able to know what’s going on in your country, to the point that politics in general create an uncomfortable and unwanted response. As per bloodfart; racism, sexism, xeno/homophobia only go so far, sure, but Republicans actually make these issues POLITICAL, whereas most First World countries have simply moved on. I understand that you want to separate politics from entertainment here, but as your country grows ever more polarized, American TV (containing the very best AND worst shows available) will mirror and satirize this split to the point where the political influence will be unavoidable. I’m a huge fan, but you have to realize that most of us foreigners espouse the opinion that, if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.