Posted on 01/04/2010 2:54:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
In its review of the decade broadcast on New Year’s Eve, the BBC cut from footage of those planes smashing into the Twin Towers to a man called Will Young winning the original incarnation of The X Factor — as if these two crimes against humanity were equal in their devastation.
They are not, of course, although there are similarities. The mastermind behind each atrocity remains at large, planning new miseries for the rest of us. Both have become so familiar to us through their evil intent that they've made cameo appearances in popular American cartoon programmes — Osama Bin Laden in South Park and Simon Cowell in The Simpsons. Bin Laden cannot be found while Cowell cannot be avoided.
Meanwhile the adolescent protégés of these two men enjoy their exceptionally brief moments in the limelight before vanishing into the ether — in the case of Osama’s multitudes, quite literally so. There is no proven link between Bin Laden and Cowell, although Cowell once described the Saudi as “a guy with just bags of talent, and real edginess, I really like what I’m seeing”. Actually he didn’t — I made that up.
Simon Cowell is not a mass murderer, which is an important caveat. People do not die as a direct consequence of The X Factor — except in a few unverified cases of viewers witnessing their will to live exiting through the tops of their skulls as some off-key warbling nonentity makes a George Michael song even more emetic than it was in the first place and being congratulated on so doing by thick, doe-eyed, over-emoting panellists who themselves are possessed of not even a soupçon of talent.
And it’s here that there is something genuinely defining about The X Factor — in the elevation of suffocating mediocrity, superficial,
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
The rant goes on ....
“And you see it too in the profusion of reality TV shows — Britain’s Got Imbeciles, I’m a Washed-Up Old Drunk, Give Me a Job, Come Dine with a Sectionable Exhibitionist etc — and in the online tweeting and blogging; everyone must have a voice and that voice must be heard and taken seriously, even if it is a very, very, stupid voice.”
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We’ve gone to full-blown “Idiocracy” this decade.
Thanks for posting. It was worth the read. Very funny.
Comparing Simon’s TV shows with the atrocity 9/11 is not cute, funny, clever, or entertaining. The author is a POS for doing so.
It is a very witty article.
Sometimes them British have a pretty sharp tongue.
>>Comparing Simon’s TV shows with the atrocity 9/11 is not cute, funny, clever, or entertaining. The author is a POS for doing so.<<
I think the fact they switched to the show DURING the immediate aftermath is what launched the whole diatribe and the anchor for his points.
Sheesh... It’s just a TV show.
Anyway, I will always be thankful the show gave the world Carrie Underwood.
Mmm!
I don’t Simon Cowell is to blame - but whether it is the Gen Y shift to the left, I’m not sure.
“Idiocracy” - did you happen to see the movie with Luke Wilson?
Simon Cowell, come on. He’s a pussycat ... a millionaire pussycat!
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