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AMERICAN IDOL
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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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