Dancing With The Stars Will No Longer Feature The Dancing Feet of Tom DeLay
Oct 8th, 2009 | 15 responses
Alas, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and his dancing feet and shaking you-know-what will no longer be featured on “Dancing with the Stars.” And now the Washington Post frames the question: did he bail or was he shoved?
Did the producers of “Dancing With the Stars” drop a brick on Tom DeLay’s feet when he became the show’s main story line and they saw where the ratings were heading?
DeLay resigned from “Dancing With the Stars” on Tuesday — and not a minute too soon as viewers continued to bail out in record numbers. Despite the best efforts of fellow washed-up-celebrity dancer Donny Osmond — efforts that included making out on-camera with the show’s judge Bruno Tonioli while Bruno yelled at him to “come over to the dark side!” — the popular dance competition series had turned into a medical soap opera about DeLay and his stress-fractured feet.
And so, DeLay is gone.
But in a way it seemed like a marriage made in heaven.
DeLay had been giving Americans a song and dance for years, and the show gave him the chance to show Americans a formal dance.
It has raised the question: will other politicians and political celebrities be far behind? Imagine Rush Limbaugh shaking his butt (which would probably be hard since it only moves sharply to the right, and ABC might not have a wide angle lens), Glenn Beck doing a Samba amid tears, Nancy Pelosi doing a bit of retro by frantically dancing the frug, Harry Reid doing the twist (just as he’s now doing in the wind in his troubled re-election bid) — and Mitch McConnell saying “NO!” to any dance he’s asked to do.
But DeLay will always leave us with heartwarming memories of his art dance moves. So — in case you missed them — here are some instant video memories 4 U:
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You can read more on DeLay’s dancing career HERE.
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15 Responses to “Dancing With The Stars Will No Longer Feature The Dancing Feet of Tom DeLay”
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I am so glad I came to this wonderful website to read such thoughtful, important political commentary. It's hard-hitting news stories such as this that make The Moderate Voice a must-read among political blogs.
Phew!. . .
Dirty Politics? Yes
Dirty Dancing? No
Why I'm so happy you loved it. I will be sure to run more of these. Your snark aside, in fact, every single post on a website or blog doesn't have to be a deadly serious political analysis. Since the site started we have run some features, reviews, cartoons, videos, things on comedy and an occasional fun piece. Sorry you didn't like it but you will see more posts that aren't the usual breathless issue posts that all blogs are running these days. If anything, websites need to run more foreign news and features,offbeat features, humor. So thanks for the comments. I'll make sure I put more of a lot of these up since you enjoyed it so much.
“Phew!. . .
Dirty Politics? Yes
Dirty Dancing? No”
Cut a deal? Yes.
Cut a rug? No.
Your turn.
lol!
“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance”? Yes
George Bernard Shaw
If you are a politician and the skeleton comes out of your closet, it is best to teach it to dance? No
DeLay is a disgraced has been who has become increasingly outlandish in order to garnish the media's attention– he is the Blago of the right.
Nice, Sparrow…very literary.
Light on his facts? Yes
Light on his feet? No
Next?
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Maybe DeLay is trying to revive his career (if Gingrich can, why can't Delay?), or get noticed to boost his lobbying ability. And, shouldn't liberals be happy, and in fact say that places like Dancing with the Stars and eventually failing to win the prize, is where Republicans preferably belong, rather than holding public office?
your good tidbits, i have to reach for a quote to help me out. . .
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it? Yes
-Martha Graham
Politicians rarely tell the truth. They are a barometer telling the state of the nations soul to all who can read it? Yes
The body never lies? Yes
This leader never lied? No
Tom Delay was on Dancing With The Stars?!!!!!
I didn't notice.
LOL
Well, Sparrow, this is starting to get difficult. One more from me, then a closing thought.
Sway the vote? Yes.
Sway the hips? No.
Closing thought from a visionary who never saw Delay dance except perhaps in a dream.
“This passion lifted him upon his feet,
And made his hands to struggle in the air,
His Druid locks to shake and ooze with sweat,
His eyes to fever out, his voice to cease.”
John Keats, “Hyperion” (1820)
With those photos, who's bothering to look at Delay, anyway?
Thanks tidbits it was fun. . .