IDOL Gives Back? Hardly!

Although I rarely watch a great deal of television anymore for varying reasons, especially any of the stations that are included with those cable subscriptions, this evening while I was working researching and editing some of my recent work as a basically unemployed freelance photographer I turned on the television and caught some of the "Idol Gives Back" program from Fox.

After only a few short minutes, I was astounded at the title for this particular segment of this program, since during the entire program there was a message flashing the number in which credit card payments in order to donate followed each and every performance of those Hollywood and a great many British transplant celebrities who were involved in this undertaking.

There was even a brief announcement by Ryan Seacrest that there was a special number in which the audience could make $10.00 donations, although the usual text messaging rates would apply, with a maximum number of calls to this particular number restricted to three.

It appears this had nothing to do with "American Idol Gives Back" but merely a telethon to the public requesting donations, and a forum in which various celebrities could also get a gig, while using the kids who were hungry for stardom as their stimulus.

I stopped watching this show many, many years ago when the Coke glasses, the text messaging and Ford automobile ads seem to be the primary focus, and the kids which were involved in this talent show merely props.

In fact, during this travesty of a plea for public donations for Hollywood's or Fox's latest causes, Alicia Keyes was the "featured" guest, and did one of her numbers which was stylized for this particular venue which featured a song in which the basic lyrics had to do with doing the "unmentionable" as an "inspiration" to the mostly pre-pubescent audience as somehow being an inspiration to donating to fight hunger and poverty.

And then went on to extol New York, site of Wall Street and many of those corporate offices of those financial institutions in which those credit card donations with the profits on those fees for Wall Street would benefit most of all for all those donations.

What was also interesting is that a great many of the performances also seemed to be aimed at the baby boomer and Gen-X parents of those kids watching in recycling Elton John's "Your Song," and also "Stairway to Heaven," as if these songs actually had, at their inception, anything at all to do with the focus of this massive telethon, at a time when most of those in which this plea was intended to reach, are those that have been majorly impacted by the U.S. recession/depression.

These "celebrities" from the U.S. and Great Britain, it appears haven't a clue.

And interesting that those pleas for donations also highlighted credit card payments, since California was and is the state in which a great many of those loans which have resulted in the foreclosures now sweeping the country were sold by Indy Mac Bank, Countrywide and Bank of America, using California's Silicon Valley telecom industry in order to make those pleas.

This program has seen better days, and milking the public at a time when this country is facing it's largest recession ever on behalf of the U.N. and its globalism agendas which have also had a major impact in their focus of world socialsm which has progressively negatively impacted the American people most of all, seemed almost too much to believe, and can understand why this program is now facing declining ratings.

Especially since the audience for this show actually tends to be those which are still dependents, and using them in order to reach their parents wallets utterly incredible.

Most of the featured spots, of course, used young children and babies as the focus for these various causes and groups, in which many of these "non-profits" also receive federal taxapayer grant monies in some form or another, I wouldn't hesitate to guess.

AIDS and literacy were the primary focuses, and it was reported by Elton John that AIDS is spreading in this country, who recommended all viewers to get tested of which about 50% of them at least were young, prepubescent girls it appeared.

And as one who also is familiar with AIDS and its progression since its inception in this country, interesting in that if we had instituted quarantines prior to immigrations or long term visits to this country when this outbreak first occurred as was done for any number of other diseases in prior generations with the limited ports of entry for immigration and international travel, or stopped facilitating agressive, rather than defensive wars, taking in literally thousands of refugees from impoverished areas and countries also progressively since Viet Nam, maybe the spread of AIDS in this country wouldn't be climbing, rather than reducing.

Randy Jackson played guitar for one of the numbers, and was quoted as stating that the U.S. was "one of the richest countries in the world."

I guess he is unaware of the increasing federal deficit, and just why so many of those in which this program directed it's pleas, at least in this country, are in the circumstances in which they now find themselves.

And Washington, New York and Wall Street,California, the British alliance since World War II and U.N's "foreign" agendas are a major part of it.

The Politics of the American Idol Finale

As has everything lately in the United States become, now has the finale of the latest crowning of the new American Idol.

It appears that the brouhaha surrounding the loss of Adam Lambert to Kris Allen on national television this past week is being blamed on religion, of all things, by many in the liberal mass media press.

Mr. Lambert has been represented as the poor maligned Jewish, questionably gay, loser due to the voting of the Christian religious right.

At first, this writer was actually too astounded to believe that such a ludicrous claim could be made for the upset.

But search the net and you will find article after article mainly from East and West coast writers laying the blame again on religion or "discrimination."

If any watched the last installment, it was fairly clear who came out on top. And also which performer had been consistently better able to vocally connect with the audience the past few weeks of the contest.

Also, which performer over-all was more talented and with more likelihood of having a far longer career in the music business.

While Adam Lambert has an incredible stage personae and vocal range, he is at best a novelty act unless and until he decides to mature and dump the theatrics.

Looking back in musical history, it is clear that Kiss, Alice Cooper, Queen and the rest of the shock rockers had their time in rock history, but their longevity was fairly limited insofar as drawing the crowds for performances.

Whereas Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Santana and others with broader range and additional song writing and musical talents have remained a force in the music industry today.

So based on that criteria, who do YOU think actually won?

I rest my case.

But fear not liberals. The controversy that is now surrounding the decision will guarantee Mr. Lambert's career and quite a bit of revenue for at least the next several years.

Where he can then retire to the golf course before 40, as was the case with Alice Cooper, a resident of my former home state of Arizona, and then eventually go on the nostalgia tours.

There is a lesson in there somewhere, Mr. Lambert, and now your career is in your hands.

And congratulations to Kris Allen, since I think we will be seeing you for years to come if your final last four weeks in that competition from all reports were any clue to your potential and future more broad range audience appeal.

And find a new argument, liberals, because the religion card is getting way too old for your sour grapes and political arguments.