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Singer Kelly Clarkson is the latest to jump on the pro-abortion bandwagon. The other day she falsely claimed that pro-life laws “literally kill” women. There’s just one problem with her claim. It’s 100% false. Not one single woman has died because of an abortion ban since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. But here’s what Clarkson has to say: “Last week we saw the Arizona Supreme Court uphold a law from 1864 that bans nearly all abortions,” the talk-show host and musician said during Monday’s episode of NBC’s The Kelly Clarkson Show. “Did you ever think in your lifetime...

The 2018 Billboard Music Awards hit a new low Sunday night in the coveted demographic of ages 18-49, dropping 10 percent from last year’s low in overnight numbers. According to Variety, the three-hour music award show broadcast from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas scored an average of 2.1/8 share in the key demographic with 7 million viewers. In comparison, the 2017 awards show, which aired on ABC, averaged a 2.3 in the 18-49 age group with 7.7 million people tuned in. Jennifer Lopez performs onstage during the 2018 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on...

Chris Wallace should probably stick to grilling Republican presidential candidates. Somehow, during a radio interview with conservative host Mike Gallagher on Friday, the Fox News Sunday host got pulled into a discussion about former American Idol star Kelly Clarkson’s weight. The two men were discussing Little Caesars’ bacon-wrapped crust pizza when Gallagher brought up “fat shaming.” “Have you seen Kelly Clarkson? You know the singer, Kelly Clarkson?” Gallagher asked Wallace. “Holy cow, did she blow up.” At first, it seemed that Wallace was going to avoid joining in on this bizarre line of questioning, saying he thinks Clarkson has “got...

R'n'B-pop diva Beyonce Knowles, "American Idol" winner Kelly Clarkson and Grammy Award-winning artist James Taylor are just some of the artists tapped by re-elected U.S. president Barack Obama to perform the country's most patriotic songs during his upcoming inauguration ceremony on January 21. Beyonce is chosen to deliver the U.S. national anthem "The Star Spangled Banner", Kelly is selected to sing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and James is invited again to perform "America the Beautiful".

If you haven't seen it yet, you should know about a powerful music video that's become a sensation both because of its emotional impact and its creator--a young cancer patient at Seattle Children's. The video is set to Kelly Clarkson's hit song "Stronger" and pairs the lyrics with some unexpected images. The video was created by 22-year-old Chris Rumble, and is part of a new creative arts program at Seattle Children's for patients with cancer. Joining Margaret on the set were Children's video producer Mike Attie, who helped Chris make the video, and John Blalock, Children's Artist in Residence who...

Billboard magazine debunks the Kelly Clarkson/Ron Paul sales bump. The magazine asserts that Kelly’s endorsement of the controversial republican presidential candidate did little to help the sales of her “Stronger” album, and in fact, her sales dropped when compared with the previous week:In the week that ended on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, “Stronger” sold 40% fewer copies than it did the previous week (25,000, as opposed to 41,000 in the week before Christmas). And while it moved from No. 39 to No. 17 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, its upward momentum this week was caused by it having a...

Via Kelly Clarkson:I am really sorry if I have offended anyone. Obviously that was not my intent. I do not support racism. I support gay rights, straight rights, women’s rights, men’s rights, white/black/purple/orange rights. I like Ron Paul because he believes in less government and letting the people (all of us) make the decisions and mold our country. That is all. Out of all of the Republican nominees, he’s my favorite. . . Hmmm. You can meet girls like Kelly Clarkson at Ron Paul events?

Just read on another thread where "American Idol" winner and recording artist, Kelly Clarkson has endorsed Ron Paul (spiking her CD sales 442%). He's also liked by Barry Manilow, White Supremacists, anti-Semites, the "Occupy" protesters, the anti-war crowd, and tons of other Liberals. So, I'm thinking.... Let Ron Paul run as a Third Party candidate. He is more like Dennish Kucinich than he is Rick Santorum. There are a lot of ultra-Liberals who are very disappointed with their "Hope and Change" President, but they'd never vote for a Republican. That would give them an outlet for a "protest vote" against...

- A word of advice to prospective American Idol contestants: vote libertarian. One day after she announced her support for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Twitter, sales of pop singer Kelly Clarkson's most recent album were surging Friday on Amazon.com. Sales of Clarkson's album Stronger shot up 442% between Thursday and Friday afternoon on Amazon ( , Fortune 500), moving the album from #38 to #7 on Amazon's sales list. While there's no way to tell whether her support for Paul was the only reason for this jump, the endorsement clearly made a difference for some fans.

Kelly Clarkson's endorsement of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has turned off some longtime fans, but it may have gained her even more new ones. Sara Spafford Freeman, a 33-year-old communications consultant, has been a Kelly Clarkson fan since the singer’s "American Idol" days. But after she saw Clarkson’s Twitter endorsement of Paul, Spafford Freeman decided she could no longer endorse Clarkson. “I used to like Kelly Clarkson. But I can't like anyone who is either ignorant enough or arrogant enough to endorse a candidate like Ron Paul,” Spafford Freeman told Fox411 on Thursday from her home in Minnesota. “I...

Texas, the Lone Star state, is no stranger to American Idol, and this year Texans have a 1 in 4 chance of winning American Idol now that Christopher Golightly has been eliminated from competition and replaced with Tim Urban from Duncanville, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, TX. (click here for the story) No other state has as many contestants as Texas: 6 of the top 24, which is the equivalent of 25%. California and Illinois each have 3; Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Florida each have 2; New York, Connecticut, Ohio, and Iowa each have 1. Out of those six from...

American Idol has been a consistent smash hit on television for the past seven years. First year winner Kelly Clarkson has achieved tremendous success, thus paving the way and legitimizing the competition for all those who would perform after her. To date, only Carrie Underwood has truly rivaled Kelly Clarkson for the un-offical title: "The Greatest American Idol." Here is a side by side comparison of the two Christian girls from the South whose triumphant success has inspired millions and forever flavored the world of both pop and country music. ...

Get it straight: Kelly Clarkson isn't gay. "I get that all the time," she tells AOL's pop culture news site, PopEater.com.. "People are like, 'Are you secretly a lesbian? Because I'd really love it.' "Lesbians tell it to me all the time," she goes on. "I'm like, 'I'm glad it works for you, and I wish I liked women like that because often times, men are very hard for me, but I happen to like boys.'"

NEW YORK (AP) -- Kelly Clarkson, who rails against a former flame in her new song "Never Again," says she's never been in love. "I love my friends and family," the Grammy-winning singer and original "American Idol" tells Elle magazine in its July issue. "But I have never said the words 'I love you' to anyone in a romantic relationship. Ever." Clarkson, 25, doesn't take romance lightly. "I am very old-school, conservative in my thinking when it comes to relationships," she says. "Love is something you work at. It doesn't come easily. There are going to be bad days. You...

NBC Universal will devote a whopping 75 hours of air time to showing Al Gore’s "Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis.” And if Gore decides to run for president in 2008, the event would be "one of the largest ever, if not the largest, in-kind contributions to a presidential campaign,” according to The Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.org, a Web site dedicated to combating liberal media bias. In addition to devoting all of NBC-TV’s Saturday, July 7 prime time to the concerts, CNBC will carry seven hours of coverage from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. EDT, Bravo will...

With Diddy at the helm, it was no surprise the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards was hip-hop heavy, but rockers Green Day ruled the night taking home seven awards. Green Day's album "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" earned the California punks seven out of eight awards during the ceremony broadcast live from Miami Sunday night, including Video of the Year, Best Rock Video, Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and the coveted Viewer's Choice Award In accepting for Best Rock Video, vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong said, "It's great to know rock music still has a place on MTV." Former "American...

<p>December 30, 2003 -- COULD the winner of "World Idol" turn out to be a plumber with two kids and the face of a lawn gnome?</p> <p>The real surprise on last week's debut edition of "World Idol" - an ultimate showdown among the winners of 11 "Idol" contests from around the world - was the strong performance of Norwegian Kurt Nilsen.</p>

<p>NEW YORK — Kelly Clarkson may not be the doe-eyed amateur she appeared to be when she won American Idol last summer.</p> <p>Clarkson may have already had a recording contract -- and was in the middle of making a record for someone else -- when she showed up to audition for the show, Star magazine is reporting.</p>

Pop queen for one day, and already Kelly Clarkson is stepping into controversy. Ms. Clarkson, 20, the former comedy-club waitress who triumphed on "American Idol" Wednesday night, has snagged a record contract, a deal with Creative Artists Agency, concert bookings and a single, which is due to arrive on Sept. 17. But today, in an interview with The New York Times, she said she wanted to withdraw from one obligation her new management company, 19 Management, has lined up for her: a performance of the national anthem at a Sept. 11 commemoration at Lincoln Memorial in Washington. A Washington-based charity,...