Forget about Huckabee, Clinton, Obama, Giuliani and the rest of that lot. The voting America really loves starts next week when the new season of "American Idol" begins.
Actually the first few weeks of the show are the hardest to stomach, a theater of cruelty featuring the bizarre and the off-key prancing and singing for that insufferable panel of judges: Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell.
A good amount of the godawful singing seems staged and if it isn't it's just picking on the mentally or psychologically challenged.
It wouldn't be so bad but for that Jackson has claimed to this "dawg" that the dreadful talent they show represents a true cross section of the talent they encounter.
That may be true, but the only reason they put it on is to make fun of the frail.
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American Idol puts on the lame contestants to make fun of the frail???
Remember...nobody held a gun to those people's head and FORCED them to appear. They're all there voluntarily. If they're awful, the judges have every right to tell them so!