I'm not one to pass up a Palin bashing opportunity but WTF is the WaPo/ABC News doing polling re: Bristol on DWTS?

Look no further than a recent poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News, regarding Bristol Palin on Dancing With The Stars (DWTS), to understand what is wrong with this nation's media. The results are irrelevant. The question is why would two (once) respected media outlets even waste their time and resources on such unimportant crap.

In an article posted tonight Lisa de Moraes writes:

Fifty-four percent of Americans think Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol is one of the finalists on ABC's competition series "Dancing With the Stars" because of large-scale voting by viewers who support her mother, according to a poll conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News.

I love pop culture and I tend to enjoy any article that casts a negative light on the Palins but to conduct a poll about a failed governor/VP candidate's daughter whose lone claim to fame is that she is the most over exposed single mother in America is just ridiculous.