USA Today reports that now there are suspicions that the American Idol voting was not completely fair. (My initial reaction to that – who cares? My second reaction – recent history shows that voting is not fair anyway.)
The load on the voting telephone systems was too much to bear, and people couldn’t get through. Duh.
As if that wasn’t enough, there’s this ridiculous, asinine quote:
“My daughter dialed more than a hundred times and couldn’t get through,” says Cynthia McGinnes of Chestertown, Md. “This is a show we all watch as a family, and I guarantee you we will never watch again. My daughter was in tears.”
I am aghast at this. Where to begin? Did they actually count how many times she dialed? Wouldn’t a normal person have given up after, say, 10? She was in TEARS? Let’s see. Dialed more than a hundred times, in tears ’cause she couldn’t get through, and that’s enough to make them stop watching… seems like someone’s a little too invested in a TV show.
