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HALLI CASSER-JAYNE - bio
RED, WHITE 'N TRUE
AMERICAN IDOL WORSHIP
 Posted, January 4,  2008,  12:01 am est

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Isn’t it lovely, isn’t it wonderful that an African-American man won such a decisive victory in Iowa! It is. A year ago would we have thought it possible. No. How about a month ago, let’s say before December 8th? Not.

But then there was Oprah, who turned the lagging-in-the-polls, banal, under-qualified, less-then-one term Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, with a tired and OLD political slogan, “change” into the new and first POLITICAL American Idol. As Obama made his over-the-top ACCEPTANCE? speech last night, I was waiting for the camera to cut to Paula, Randy, OK, Oprah, so I could see the self-satisfied smirk on the face of  the media-maven. 

But alas, I was forced to listen to the talking heads who gushed with self-pride at what they had helped create: a candidate under-qualified, over-hyped, and now dangerously poised to win the Democratic Party's nomination – this at a time when America is facing its most serious challenges. And maybe more than ever before in its history needs a hero to save the day, not an idol to worship.

The Republicans didn’t perform any better. Like their Democratic Party counterparts, but even more stupidly because they’ve been down this road before, they voted for their brand of American Idol when they gave the nod to Hee Haw Huckabee. The former Baptist Minister prayed on the Evangelical Christian vote and got it, no miracle...talk about American Idol Worship. The Christian Right still thinks they are right. 

Of course, the Republicans are in a quandary. Their pickings for a candidate this cycle are Huckleberry Slim to none. Still, in Iowa, where they’ve apparently been watching too much American Idol (what else is there to do on a January night in Iowa?)  they voted for the candidate with the least substance but with Little Rock-star appeal with his strumming guitar and quick wit, and that’s all folks-y manner.

Left on the frozen Iowa tarmac, run over flat like a Looney Toons cartoon character was that unMitt-igated Liar Romney - no loss. And a field of viable candidates on the Democratic side, most notably Hillary Clinton, long on substance but short on American Idol pop star appeal.

America, I’m scared.

Thanks to Ms. Winfry, the TMZ has entered the American political zone. The two men who won the Iowa Caucuses were the two youngest candidates, but, more importantly, also the least qualified in the field. Voters between the ages of 17 and 21 were a stunning 22 percent of the Democratic vote, 57 percent of that vote went to the oh-my-gosh-he's-so-cute! Senator Obama. Obama even split the woman vote with Hillary. No surprise that he got the younger star-crazed women, she the older, married and no-longer goo-goo eyed.

In an ironic twist, while our newly-anointed celebrity candidates were taking their bows on the political stage of acceptance, TMZ’s favorite Here's A Reason To CHANGE Our Celebrity-crazed American-culture example, Britney Spears, was being whisked away on a stretcher -- a symbol of the fate of one or both of the Iowa Carcasses winners?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 


 


 



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