Did Bristol Palin use 'gay slurs' against fellow 'DWTS' contestant Margaret Cho?
Bristol Palin has allegedly issued "gay slurs" on her Facebook account, this time against fellow Dancing With the Stars Margaret Cho. The comedian Cho posted on her blog last week that Bristol was forced by her mother Sarah Palin to compete at the dancing show.
In her response to Cho's blog post, Bristol alluded to Cho's lesbianism. The note was posted on her Facebook account, which entertainment Web site TMZ said was decently worded but later on, Bristol decided to end it by saying that Cho "would embrace us faster than KD Lang at an Indigo Girls concert" if she understood conservative politics.
K.D. Lang is an award-winning Canadian singer,who had openly declared herself lesbian and advocated many gay rights issues, while The Indigo Girls are a folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, who both claimed to be lesbians. While not a lesbian herself, Margaret Cho has extensively worked with LGBT community, with GLAAD giving her recogniton for her work.
So what merited such statements from Bristol? On her blog, Cho wrote last week:
"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)."
At present, TMZ is conducting an ongoing poll whether Bristol's statement consist of "homophobic slurs." As of posting time, 69% of TMZ visitors answered in the affirmative. However, it should be noted that Bristol also stated that she's willing to let Margaret Cho babaysit her son, Tripp.
Bristol Palin and her younger sister Willow previously figured in another incident where Willow wrote politically incorrect statements on the wall of a boy identified as Tre, a Facebook user who thought that "Sarah Palin's Alaska is falling so hard right now" during the show's premiere in the United States. Bristol has since apologized for her sister's behavior, but only after issuing defensive comments herself on the matter. (See full report here).