XPost: alt.gossip.celebrities, alt.underground, soc.history.what-if   
   XPost: alt.music.prince   
   From: agent-smith@two-blocks-on-your-left.com   
      
   "greentop"  wrote in   
   news:jldRh.80759$Ts6.11015@fe12.news.easynews.com:   
      
   >   
   >  wrote in message   
   > news:1175790253.810612.121750@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...   
   >> It is precisely because the industry wants to perpetuate the fantasy   
   >> that being anti-establisment is cool that people like Sanjaya are   
   >> being voted for, thanks to propaganda that the members of the herd   
   >> are not smart enough to notice. I have studied this very basic   
   >> problem long and hard. This is an issue that does not help the real   
   >> artists with talent, and it may well cause a backlash, but that   
   >> backlash will probably not be enough to get American Idol off the   
   >> air, because people who say it should go off the air will be seen as   
   >> being pro- musical establishment. This is a classical example of how   
   >> to co-opt the membership of the opposition. It will not cause   
   >> American Idol to go away, it will just help perpetuate the myth of   
   >> the American Dream that someone with no talent or style can rise to   
   >> the top of the heap, when it is critical discernment that people   
   >> should be using.   
   >>   
   >  I don't think those who are part of this 'movement' really want   
   >  American   
   > Idol to 'go away'. It's more of a statement that the show and it's   
   > process....sucks donkey balls. And It's very embarassing to Simon   
   > which is fun.   
      
   Simon must hates Sanjaya for rebuffing his romantic overtures.  :P~   
      
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