Flashback: Tom DeLay's Long Involvement With Dancing With The Stars
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) has made big news with the announcement that he'll be on the upcoming season of Dancing In The Stars. But believe it or not, this is not his first encounter with the show.
Back in 2006, months after he'd resigned from Congress, DeLay sent out an e-mail to his supporter list, calling on them to vote in that current season of Dancing for country singer Sara Evans, who is a vocal supporter of the Republican Party, and whose husband was a GOP fundraiser and had been an unsuccessful candidate for Congress. DeLay framed this cause as part of the culture war -- targeting that nasty liberal contestant Jerry Springer:
Sara Evans has been a strong supporter of the Republican Party and represents good American values in the media. From singing at the 2004 Republican Convention to appearing with candidates in the last several election cycles, we have always been able to count on Sara for her support of the things we all believe in ... One of her opponents on the show is ultra liberal talk show host Jerry Springer. We need to send a message to Hollywood and the media that smut has no place on television by supporting good people like Sara Evans.
Ultimately, DeLay's plan didn't work out. Evans ended up quitting the show due to a messy divorce, citing frequent adultery by her husband. Springer lasted for seven weeks on the show -- longer than Evans, it turned out -- and was eventually eliminated through the natural means of the contest.
Now that DeLay himself is a contestant, who knows what kind of mayhem he could get into?
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Great to see that America has such a great support system for its criminals.
August 17, 2009 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll watch it if DeLay dances with leg irons on.
August 17, 2009 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is just what the phrase "you can't make this stuff up" was invented for.
Tom Delay - the Rupert Pupkin of Dance!
August 17, 2009 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
So, what's next for Tom? America's Biggest Loser?
August 17, 2009 2:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
How about "Survivorman"? We drop him in a remote location and watch him ball like a little baby after 5 minutes.
August 17, 2009 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Discovery has got to have some sort of role for him on shark week.
"It's been great, everybody's been really friendly. I don't know why they keep calling me 'chum', but it's kind of endearing."
August 17, 2009 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I feel really, really sorry for his dance partner... DeLay is *creep* personified!
August 17, 2009 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
"So, what's next for Tom? America's Biggest Loser?"
Jon & Kate Plus Tom
August 17, 2009 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am looking forward to the time we can watch Tom on You Tube performing his routines in an orange jump suit like the Filipino Prisoners do!
August 17, 2009 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe Olie North is going to partner with him???
Or convicted criminal "Skooter" Libby, or his personal buddy Jack Abramoff. Well the list is long...
August 17, 2009 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope he breaks his neck!!!
August 17, 2009 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tommy "Snake Hips" DeLay
August 17, 2009 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tom DeLay? Oh God, HELP ME LORD!
August 17, 2009 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bring back Jerry as his competition!!
August 17, 2009 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Prancing with the Perps.
August 17, 2009 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Never voted before on this show (watch occasionally, usually towards the end of the cycle) but this time I'm going to vote early and often against the Bug Man.
August 18, 2009 10:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Sadly," the producers noted, "Uday Hussein was unavailable."
August 17, 2009 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmm, seems to me that Sara quit the show early.
Never made the connection to her being a Republican woman before. Perhaps there is hope for Michelle Bachman as well.
August 17, 2009 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't DeLay still under indictment in Texas? Why would the producers want a pre-felon on their show? (I don't know what else to call him.)
August 17, 2009 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I will never watch one second of the new season. Damn. Not that it's that great a show. Thanks be to Allah that he's not going to be on "So You Think You Can Dance."
Let's hope he does some plie, turn, or jettee (whatever those terms mean--I understand "turn") that goes bad and he does himself horrible, irreversible bodily harm.
August 17, 2009 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want to see Delay dance ..... with his cellmate.
August 17, 2009 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
This guy has been tap dancing for years. Why not let him make a fool of himself - AGAIN!
August 18, 2009 10:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Tom Delay still has indictments pending in Texas for money laundering.
Does ABC really want this criminal involved with this Dancing with the Stars!
Where is the Outrage!
August 18, 2009 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just another piece of evidence that the networks' corporatist masters are just as much right-wing nutjobs as Sarah Palin and the deathers.
Wow. If I had a punk rock band, that's what I'd call it, Sarah Palin and the Deathers.
August 18, 2009 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
**Just do it, dude. I'll be a fan.
August 19, 2009 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
As I posted on twitter, (ttommyunger): his partner will have to be fitted with special non-slip dancing shoes due to the mucous trail.
August 19, 2009 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
do you 'tango' Mr Delay?
http://www.cpusa.org/article/view/348/
that article, is titled,
"the last tango: Enron and bush"
by: Tim Wheeler
and Mr delay is also a star, in this article too.
August 19, 2009 7:50 PM | Reply | Permalink