I just thought of another accidental good side effect of having Cain be one of the top two Republican candidates.
The bleeping Republican Establishment will need to do all they can to suppress Cain because he is NOT one of their stooges.
One of the bad things the Establishment does is have our primaries “open” to independents and they do it so that their favorite “moderates” (leftists) have the advantage of independent votes. How did we get McCain after all?
Assuming that Obama isn’t challenged in the primary or hasn’t resigned by then, black voters would be free to vote in ours. Usually that would be good for the Establishment because they would pick the most far left candidate we field. But what if a large number of them voted race...
We might just get closed primaries most places and WE (black, white, brown, yellow REPUBLICANS) could pick OUR candidate.
I think I just hear CNN’s F’reak Zacaria say about Obama’s ‘Pass this bill’, a “gimmicky and inadequate plan to fund it”. This should get interesting if he elaborates on it.
So I write a column for The Morton Report, on competetive reality TV. The X Factor is now the latest and greatest and as part of my position as scribe to the swanky on this site I get to participate in a conference call with Simon Cowell.
Now I’m a bit too new and cowardly to have asked any questions at the time because it was all I could do as an old dog with a new trick to get onto the conference call, plug in my number, respond as to “who” I represent which left me so flummoxed I almost said, you should smile, FreeRepublic. I did say “The Morton Report” and they actually heard of me so there’s a hoot.
Below, between the dashed lines, Simon Cowell’s response to the question as to just what was the difference between finalists who will make it on The X Factor versus finalists on, just throwing it out there, American Idol. Copied and pasted directly from the transcript of this conference call so you know I’m not making it up.
So Simon laments that too many finalists on AI got there more for popularity than talent and I must suppose there’s some truth to this.
Anyway, more of the Simon Cowel X Factor finalist criteria....
S. Daily If I were to ask you what it would take to make The X Factor work I’m sure you would tell me a great amount of talent and good singing. But since this is a television program and we’re here to entertain people as well how important are the backstories that the contestants are going to share to the success of making this a successful television show?
S. Cowell Personally I think they’re crucial, because I get to meet the contestants for the first time when they audition and we have no background information on them at all, which I don’t want to know. And if they’re interesting to me when I’m asking them questions then I think they’re going to be interesting to people who watch the show.
Normally when I ask them what’s the most interesting thing that’s happened in your life and they start droning on about singing at the age of three or four I’m honestly not interested. I expect all of them to say that they wanted to be a singer; that’s obvious. I really am interested in their backstories; if they got divorced why did they get divorced, if they’re married are they happy being married, if they’ve left college how do their parents feel about them leaving college to pursue a music career. So really obviously number one on the list is talent, but number two is you really, really have to be an interesting person and have a very good backstory.
Further, I don’t know if any of you saw the show and I did, of course, do a review on it, link below.
http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/television/three-big-red-xs-for-the-x-factor/
But you don’t have to read my review, just let me offer that they had this single mother on there, dear Lord, it was boo-hoos all over the place, she had two children to whose father she was not married. She had singing talent but you’ll just have to take my word on it, she sang an Aretha song and she screeched half of it.
She probably deserved to go on, I grant, but those judges practically kissed her feet and damn, she wasn’t that good.
Another contender had been a drug addict, drug free on the night of his audition, for....get this...SEVENTY DAYS!
Seventy days drug free and they think this guy should get in line for a five million dollar prize? AND...hold on...he also wasn’t all that talented. He was okay but bear in mind this is Simon Cowell we speak of, the fellow who was considered the toughest and the meannest but give him a sob story and all of a sudden you’re sent on to win the grand prize.
There was another 12 year old, again, good voice. She told some sob story about how she lives in a little house with her family, only two bedrooms....what does this have to do with anything?
Anyway, the writers at The Morton Report are so liberal and I’m doing my darndest to not talk politics though they all irk me to no end. I got into a big brouhaha with another writer who does nothing but write columns about stupid things Michelle Bachmann says and in ire one day I responded, on the private journolist if you will, that she ought to pay attention to the liar in chief and the stupid stuff he says. I then listed a lot of stupid things he said as I was in the throes of a rant.
Man I got a whipping from the Morton Site owner for daring to talk bad about our president...well there’s more to it than that....and not all bad.
turned out that the site owners want me to write a political column what with the election and I said I’d think about it.
See....it’s how life works folks. Because while the other writers might be liberals....stand up and cheer right here...
I’M THE ONE BRINGING IN THE HITS!!!!!
Heh.
Yeah, me the conservative boob. I put up a post and I get hits in the thousands, I don’t know why. I like it though and they can’t beat me up too much because in the end, power is about who benefits who.
The review I wrote about X Factor went on a rant about just that, this reverence of single mothers who could, as I threw it out there, GET MARRIED or NOT GET PREGNANT!
That post went up and stayed in the top ten posts for three straight days.
Still, the X Factor, where even talent becomes an experiment in socialism. Consider this a heads up.