Yeah...I saw a thing on TV a little while ago about this...BOR was showing Rosie O'Donnell bashing this show.
BUT, BOR was showing Rosie to bash HER...LOL
All the hand-wringers are just jealous because the show IS so popular. In addition, all those whiny, oh-so-self-important columnists, TV talking heads, and others who bask in the show's limelight by criticising it are merely trying to make a peripheral buck off it. Oh, and that also includes washed-up lesbo jerks like Rosie. I don't like Donald Trump, but he is right about her. Ugh!
Compared to a lot of what's out there, AI is harmless fun, and the contestants know what they are getting into when they line up by the tens of thousands to audition. Oooooo...it's so meeean. Yeah, right! I'd wager that what those contestants experience for a few minutes in front of Simon, Randy and Paula is puff pastry compared to what they experienced in school.