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Barney Frank: “You’ll always be my Amewican Idol.”

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6,531 posted on 05/11/2005 5:57:24 PM PDT by silent_jonny
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To: silent_jonny

LOL....hiya, buddy....Rob and Amber didn't quite make it to the finish line...


6,532 posted on 05/11/2005 5:59:18 PM PDT by mystery-ak
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Good evening. Very nervous tonight.


6,533 posted on 05/11/2005 5:59:56 PM PDT by beandog (The only time I was wrong was the time I thought I was wrong)
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I'm nervous.


6,535 posted on 05/11/2005 6:00:37 PM PDT by texasflower ("America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." President George W. Bush 01/20/05)
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Oh jeeze! LOL!

I have to be on a conference call. I have the TV on mute -- keep me posted.


6,541 posted on 05/11/2005 6:02:05 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women (HJ Simpson))
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Well, my daughter just got home, so I'm off to watch this with her.

I'll be biting my nails. See you all in half an hour.

Tammy


6,542 posted on 05/11/2005 6:02:29 PM PDT by texasflower ("America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." President George W. Bush 01/20/05)
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eeewwww.....your gwafik is so gay!


6,543 posted on 05/11/2005 6:02:44 PM PDT by Feiny ( I hate the very sight of liquor, which is why I hide it in my stomach.)
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6,544 posted on 05/11/2005 6:02:52 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry (Some stories have more spin cycles than my Kenmore washer!)
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Hahahaha!


6,547 posted on 05/11/2005 6:03:48 PM PDT by maggief
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ACk! I had heard about that picture but had not seen it til now. Yuck!!!! The guy is a perv. I wish that up and coming Pol. whose behind Franks is squeezing would sue him for sexual harrassment.


6,705 posted on 05/11/2005 6:41:19 PM PDT by EmilyGeiger (Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.)
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LOL! The Barney Frank photo is both disgusting and hilarious -- the latter only because of all the great captions FReepers have posted.


6,783 posted on 05/11/2005 7:11:34 PM PDT by Wolfstar (U.S.M.C. -- when it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed over night)
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American Idol Gets the Numbers Wrong AGAIN!

Anthony_numbers_wrong_5After American Idol messed up the phone numbers the first time resulting in the first ever American Idol re-vote surely it could never happen again.  After that embarrassing error, American Idol producers surely put some checks and balances in place to ensure that a similar error could never happen again in a million years.  Wrong.  It happened again tonight.  After Anthony Fedorov's second performance, the phone numbers displayed in the closed captioning were incorrect.  As visible in the image above, the first two numbers that appeared were 1-866-IDOLS-01 and 1-866-436-5701, and the last number was Text Vote 5704.   

Only the last number is correct.  The first two numbers are actually numbers for Carrie Underwood.  This error only occurred in the closed captioning.  The numbers in the audio and displayed on the screen graphics were correct.

Will this error lead to the second ever American Idol re-vote?  Since the numbers only appeared in the closed captioning it is very unlikely that there were many fans that got confused by this error.  However, as everyone now knows, Fox does not reveal the total number of votes for each individual contestant.  What if Anthony Fedorov gets eliminated?  His fans will never know if he got eliminated by a million votes or by a single vote.  It could very well be that this error could confuse at least a couple people and send some of Anthony's votes to Carrie Underwood.

Also, even though this error might not affect the outcome, it raises even more questions about the reliability of the American Idol voting system.  Obviously, American Idol producers have problems with numbers, and if they can't display phone numbers correctly, then how are we to believe that they can count millions of votes correctly.

Update: Not only were Anthony's numbers in the closed captioning incorrect, but Bo_numbers_wrong_4 the closed caption numbers were wrong for Bo Bice and Vonzell Solomon as well.  As like with Anthony's number, Bo and Vonzell's phone numbers were incorrectly listed as 1-866-IDOLS-01 and 1-866-436-5701, which is the number for Carrie Underwood.  This problem could be more serious than first reported.  Many people view American Idol in large noisy groups and could possibly be watching the closed captioning for the numbers.  These three errors could very well affect the outcome and send additional votes to Carrie Underwood that were not intended for her.Vonzell_number_wrongFrom Reality TV Magazine's blog

6,990 posted on 05/11/2005 11:19:06 PM PDT by kingu
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I give up... it's obvious that at this point, the results have absolutely nothing to do with how the contestants perfrom, but simply about who is more popular


6,993 posted on 05/12/2005 4:18:31 AM PDT by kevkrom (If people are free to do as they wish, they are almost certain not to do as Utopian planners wish)
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