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It's that time of year again. American Idol just kicked off a sixth season that promises to be just as successful as it has been in the past. It's not surprising the show has already started attract criticism and comment. Earlier this morning, as I was watching the Today show, I saw an interview with two American Idol hopefuls, or should I say former hopefuls. It seems that they had a complaint against the judges on the show. The complaint - quite simply, the judges are mean.

By now most anyone that watches the show likely knows the story. Two hopefuls, Jonathan Jayne and Kenneth Briggs, met while awaiting their shot at fame and sort of bonded. Neither did particularly well, at least in the judge's opinion, during their auditions. Buried somewhere within Jayne there may be a pleasant voice but it really didn't come out in his audition. Briggs simply shouldn't be a singer and who ever has told him he should has done him a disservice. However, Briggs did apparently provided a great deal of humor for the judges and elicited some pointed remarks from Simon Cowell, one in particular liked Briggs, in appearance, to a creature with bulging eyes that Cowell called a Bush Baby. When Jayne, who is not exactly svelte, entered the room he was greeted with the question as to whether he had taken judge Randy Jackson's pants [for those few of you out there that don't remember, Jackson isn't exactly svelte himself and while he has trimmed down, I believe the transformation was in part due to gastric bypass surgery.] The point being, the judges didn't exactly bite their tongues when these two contestants were in the room and now people are mad that the judges are being mean.

Really now. But then again, it made for great television, but people are overreacting and not just a little bit.
Back to the Today Show interview.

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