Hope Solo too deserves a standing ovation – for speaking out and telling it like it is about how she was treated on Dancing With The Stars Season 13. Ignored by the Hollywood gossip television programs, Solo went on Anderson, Anderson Cooper’s new daytime program, and said that while she enjoyed her time on DWTS, they told her she was too intense and too muscular for the show.

This was said by the judges, but it’s not clear if DWTS Executive Producer Conrad Green feels that way.

I met Green at CES 2011 this year:

But I digress. It’s clear the Dancing With The Stars experience left a scar on Hope.

I don’t think the DWTS episode will stop her from being herself, but I do think it will cause her to go “Sarah Palin.”

The reason for Sarah Palin’s rise, and I’ve said this before, is because she was treated horribly by the GOP when she was selected as Senator John McCain’s Vice Presidential Running Mate in 2008. After the GOP worked to cast her aside, she fought back by constantly being in the public eye, and even responding to how she was presented by publications like Newsweek.

The result, four years later, is over $12 million in earnings and the position of A-list public figure. Her name commands dollars.

The forecast here is the same process will unfold for Hope Solo.

Stay tuned.