American Idol Too

By the way, you're welcome for the free advertising but that's not the reason for part two. Ny reason for part two is that that for some reason the judges think that by kissing America's ass' that they are going to start to vote better and start to just vote by voice quality alone.

WRONG!!!

Nothing could be further from the truth my friends. As we sit here behind our glass plated shields each week we want to hear the truth from them not a bunch of ass kissing, racially motivated crap coming out of their mouths because of your producers having to fight off law suits because Simon saying something stupid to a fat person or any three to a person of other color.

Be real and America won't vote in stupid people and you won't have to act like you're surprised each week there Judgareno's.

That's The Lazlo Report for March 9th, 2007

American Idol is Rigged, in My Opinion

Up until 2003 or 4 the TV show American Idol was a show that did a fine job of judging young people on their talent in singing in a singing competition show. That all changed with the onset of the automatic dialer, something that anyone with half a brain can download off of the Internet. This was never so apparent when last year the public voted an almost fully gray hair man named Taylor Hicks as its American Idol.

During the show Hicks sang songs that boarded on living room performances and at best lounge acts at the local Travel Lodge. As time went on and with the help of the producers at Fox he got better and I feel that he obtained the status of maybe an opening act to someone else on American Idle but truly no one of no real stature and certainly no big name venue. Bare in mind that Fox and it’s producers like Nigel Lythgoe and Simon Cowell are looking for marketability in the future and record sales too. They weren’t counting on some old guy and this fictitious “soul patrol” as Randy Jackson coined the phrase to catch on but then they underestimated the power of the Internet as well.

In one such part of the plot; On the April 25th show, whose theme was Greatest Love Songs and featured guest coaches Andrea Bocelli and David Foster, executive producer Nigel Lythgoe forced contestant Taylor Hicks to change his song a day before air time (and the same day as the dress rehearsal). Hicks' chosen song was "Try a Little Tenderness," but Lythgoe, in a radio interview, claimed the song was more appropriate for a Blues Brothers week and was not a song that Andrea Bocelli would sing. Hicks changed his song at the last minute to "Just Once" (James Ingram) and appeared very uncomfortable on stage. Hicks fans were distressed, feeling that a) Hicks' original choice of song was very appropriate to the theme; b) The producers changed the song at the last minute even though they must have known Hicks' choice the previous week as they must obtain clearance for all songs; c) Lythgoe's statement that it was not a song Andrea Bocelli would sing was dubious, as other song choices that were approved were songs sung by Bryan Adams ("Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman," sung by Chris Daughtry) and Donny Hathaway ("A Song for You," sung by Elliott Yamin)

So why did he do that; was it because they could obviously see that the people were voting for this no name person no matter what they did and there was nothing they could do about it?...well yeah..duh But it didn’t do any good and pushing for Elliott Yamin which we all could see that the judges were doing did no good at all.

I mean he was pretty good and everything but he wasn’t the best of the group either. Everyone who watched the show last year knows for sure that the winner should have been Chris Daughtry, but that’s not what this blog is about. It’s about whether or not the American Idol contest is rigged and whether or not you believe it.

This year there’s also obvious bios when it comes to female vocalists, whether it be with the public or the judges or both. It’s obvious to me at least that between the three judges that they only prefer African American females and as for the males there is no preference. Not that I’m calling anyone a racist but it’s clear that the first to go are the white girls this year regardless of their singing abilities and regardless of their marketabilities. There’s also, because of other prior threat of law suits I suppose, one person of size picked again this year for the third time that I can recall. There was Ruben then Mandisa and now Lakisha. In between Ruben and Mandisa I believe there was the threat of a law suit from the Large Persons of America or something like that.

I think that a couple of years ago the bulk of America with the power if the Internet behind them figured out that the first part of the show was scripted like a sit-com. You’ll have your over-weight but great singing person that Simon makes a joke about at first and then has to apologize to later on.

Then you’ll have the cutesy blond or brunette who makes silly comments and makes us all laugh early enough on so that the audience just loves her. It could be two of them but they get kicked off anyway.

Then you’ll have the adorable young heart throb. Last year we had 'Chicken Little' and this year it’s Sanjaya Malakar who frankly I have no nickname for without sounding racist myself. There are some out there though that I heard but I’m not posting them.. Well ok, I think if thirty million people can watch him sing then I can just pray that half that many will be pissed that I made a bad joke with his name. Ok; Camel Singer and we’ll leave it at that. My point is that they’ll always have the cute young boy for the teenie-girls to go for and then he’ll get voted off for sure.

Next you’ll have the bitch. Last year; Brenda, this year, can anyone say “God loves good people”? My goodness how sacrilegious can you get; and on National TV?

So what can be done? What is the answer for the producers that came up with the rules that you can call as many times as you want for your favorite contestant. Well I have a suggestion for them now that the cat is out of the bag, presuming that they know about this little glitch in their system and presuming that they even care; come up with their own telephone answering that detects any one telephone number calling in more than, let say, 50 times and let that be the limit on how may times each telephone or IP address can cast a vote. With the advent of high speed internet it’s possible to set a computer to redial for two hours and get in probably 2,000 votes and if you times that by a consortium of 200 geeks that equals 400,000 votes. Just think if it were 2,000 geeks or more. Remember as I said in the beginning of this blog, you can download this sort of program or buy it for $39.00 just about anywhere.

I don’t know who’s going to win this year’s American Idol. All of the men seem like they are winners, my money’ on Blake. The girls are all pretty good too. What it looks like is that the producers are on to what I just described above but instead of taking the honest route however they chose to take the usual Hollywood approach and played it as they always do. Reverse bigotry and putting in only talented people. No goofs this year, except for maybe Sanjaya but he does have a pretty nice voice, just not American Idol standards. America has the choice to make this year; embarrass us again or don’t, it’s that simple in my opinion.

If you’re gonna pick someone for American Idol then pick someone who is an excellent singer, can draw them in the stadiums, can WOW them in record sales and is someone who America aspires to look like. That’s what an “Idol” is, Get it? “I.D.O.L.” look it up in the dictionary, man. An idol is something that you worship so much that you wish you could become that in which you idolize. Now do you know anyone that wants to look like Ruben Studdard? Or look like Taylor Hicks? I didn’t think so. Sound like them sure.

And what is this crap tonight’s about the girls sounding better than the guy’s last night? Randy Jackson; Are you smoking dope Dude? The guys last night did a great job and Jordan, while doing an ok job with her song wasn’t high enough with her rendition of her Pat Benitar song for me. And last night the judges not knowing a 311 song when here in Ohio we, at age 48, we all know it? What’s up with that?

There seems to be something wrong with Idol and like I said I think it’s rigged… or just plain broke. In this case, if it’s broke, please fix it!

That’s the Lazlo Report for March 7, 2007

No More Scandal 4 The DNC

Back in 1997 there was still a problem with their campaign financing that hasn’t gone away. Oh sure, it’s out of the news, the main stream media has forgotten about it, but not me. I’m still on the case because I don’t want Hillary Clinton, or even an adopted child of the Clintons, knowing that their red-headed real child ain’t gonna run and if she did ain’t no body gonna vote for her either.
In mid-1995, the President and his strategists decided that they needed to raise and spend many millions of dollars over and above the permissible limits of the Presidential campaign funding law if the President was going to be reelected. They devised a legal theory to support their needs and proceeded to raise and spend $44 million in excess of the Presidential campaign spending limits.

The lengths to which the Clinton/Gore campaign and the White House-controlled Democratic National Committee were willing to go in order to raise this amount of money is essentially the story of the 1996 Presidential campaign scandal. The President and his aides demeaned the offices of the President and Vice President, took advantage of minority groups, pulled down all the barriers that would normally be in place to keep out illegal contributions, pressured policy makers, and left themselves open to strong suspicion that they were selling not only access to high-ranking officials, but policy as well. Millions of dollars were raised in illegal contributions, much of it from foreign sources. When these abuses were discovered, the result was numerous Fifth Amendment claims, flights from the country, and stonewalling from the White House and the DNC.

Over a brief period of three months of hearings, the Committee was able to fulfill its responsibility in laying out the available facts to the American people. A much clearer picture of what happened during the 1996 Presidential campaign has been developed and presented.

However, many questions remain unanswered. It is now the responsibility of the Attorney General or, more appropriately, an independent counsel to take these facts and aggressively pursue any and all indications of criminal wrong-doing. Indeed, the three most important legal developments to come out of the 1996 campaign finance scandal are all attributable to the investigation conducted by the Committee on Governmental Affairs. First, Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie, an associate of the President, has been indicted for, among other things, obstruction of the Committee’s investigation. Second, Maria Hsia, a prominent Democratic fundraiser, has been indicted for laundering campaign contributions that were a focus of the Committee’s inquiry. Finally, the Attorney General has requested appointment of an independent counsel to determine whether Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt lied to the committee.

Despite the delaying tactics of the White House and DNC, the Committee developed a great deal of information in a relatively short period of time. Large numbers of documents had been received from many sources, and depositions and interviews were being conducted. In addition, on June 6, 1997, three members of the majority staff, two detailed FBI agents, and one member of the minority staff undertook an investigative trip to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao, and Indonesia to collect information and interview witnesses.

They succeeded in giving the American people a boat load of information that would normally never have become public in the absence of the Committee’s investigation. It was not always the Committee itself that released the information, but it was the Committee that was responsible for the release of it. Example; the White House released allot of information to the media before giving it to the Committee. None of that would have been publicly disclosed without the Committee’s demands for the information from the White House. Giving clearance to the public’s right to know, more than offering assuptions and conjectures and /or reaching any political heights, was really the job of the special investigation, and the Committee if they succeeded in satisfying this first purpose.

A second reason for the inquiry and hearings was to fully lay out the operation of the current framework for Federal elections. For Congress to legislate and govern effectively, it must conduct routine oversight to learn how the government is functioning. Congress also has a responsibility to examine the operation of current laws on the government and private parties. This Committee is particularly well-suited to conduct such a broad oversight inquiry into the multifarious elements of this scandal because it has the broadest oversight jurisdiction in the Senate: “to study or investigate the efficiency and economy of operations of all branches of the Government.”

When the 105th Congress convened in early January 1997, Senator Fred Thompson (RTN) was confirmed as the chairman of the Committee. On January 7, 1997, Chairman Thompson named Hannah Sistare as staff director of the Committee and hired Michael J. Madigan, a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, to serve as chief counsel for the special investigation into campaign fundraising abuses in the 1996 elections. Senator John Glenn (D-OH) was selected as the ranking minority member of the Committee, and he named former Senate Legal Counsel Michael Davidson to serve as minority chief counsel for the special investigation.

Of perhaps equal importance to the information the Committee was gathering, however, was the information the Committee was unable to obtain. Thirty-five witnesses with information relevant to the Committee’s investigation asserted the Fifth Amendment right against selfincrimination and refused to testify and/or produce documents in response to a Committee subpoena. In late June, the Committee began considering whether to grant immunity to some of the witnesses who had invoked their Fifth Amendment right. On June 27, the Committee voted to confer immunity on four witnesses. On July 23, the Committee voted to immunize another five witnesses. Thus, the Committee voted to immunize nine witnesses, five of whom eventually testified in open session during the Committee’s hearings. An additional ten potential witnesses fled the country and were beyond the Committee’s ability to issue legal process. The Committee was unable to contact any of these individuals during the staff’s foreign trip. While the Committee was able to interview a number of foreign witnesses during that trip, 12 potential foreign witnesses who were contacted refused requests for interviews, among whom were some of the most important, including James Riady and Ng Lap Seng.

Now, while this all sounds like the plot to an epesode to an old Roky and Bulwikle with agents being put into the back of a black car and shuffled off in hopes of finding the key to the Upsadaisium mind only to find that their plans are spoiled by “Moose und Squirle” even when mines go off from nearby hhsshhaboomerum, it isn’t it is a very real investigation with very real people that have commotied crimes. They just want you to think it’s not real and that what they did was funny in some way; well I’m not laughing and you shouldn’t either.
So if you’re courious yourself and want to look into this, please do so. In the meanwhile I plan to keep you abreast of the sitsuation as it comes up in this blog. I will post more as I come across it and I wont hold anything back.

By the way, at the top I have writen an address for you to contact the Whitehouse. Do so and contact someone and demand that something still be done. I did.

That’s The lazlo Report for March 6, 2007