Oboy … we’ve got a new idol
May 24th, 2006 ~ Current eventsApparently, that rumbling of the earth I felt just a while ago was the terrestrial shockwave of us crowning our fifth “American Idol.”
Oh brother.
Not that I haven’t got my share of guilty pleasure TV viewing habits as well. Heck, maybe any TV viewing habit is a guilty pleasure. But there’s something wrong with the following statement:
More than 63 million votes were cast, “more than any president in the history of our country has received,” Seacrest said.
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May 25th, 2006 at 5:11 am
Yeah, like when Kellie Pickler, the gal from Albemarle (my home town), was still on the show? My mom represented 45,000 of those votes.
She only voted for Bush once. (He’s from Texas.)
May 25th, 2006 at 8:40 am
Um….last time I checked, you can only vote for president once (unless you are an illegal immigrant from Florida).
So ya’ll can’t compare the vote totals. :)
May 25th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Well yeah. And I withdraw my criticism in that case — or rather, I move it over to the guys that put on “American Idol.” If they haven’t taken some steps to make sure that people can’t easily vote 45,000 times, then they’re just being stupid. Or trying to inflate the numbers, but if so, I’d think they’d want to be a little more subtle about it.