After a blog post by Margaret Cho that Bristol Palin was forced to do “Dancing with the Stars” because her mother Sarah made her do it, now Bristol is responding to Cho’s claim.
Bristol posted the following on Facebook. Bristol wrote, “So with this in mind I was somewhat taken aback to read about me in a blog by my friend and fellow contestant, Margaret Cho.  In a post she called “Pistol Whipped” she wrote 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 . . . for not winning the election,and so she told Bristol she “owed” it to her to do DWTS . . . .”  Let me shamelessly steal from Saturday Night Live: “Really, Margaret? Really?”
“I will give my friend credit for creativity, and extra points for getting so many “facts” wrong in so few sentences. Â Let me be blunt: my mom did not “force” me to go on DWTS. Â She did not ask me either. Â The show approached me. Â I thought about it. Â I made the decision. Â 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. Â Anyone who watched the show could tell I performed better, and I felt better about myself, when they were in the audience. Â I wanted to make them both proud, but politics had nothing to do with it. Loving my parents had everything to do with it.”
Palin continued, “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.”