Dan Abrams is a Doofus

I am regularly appalled by the garbage that networks like Fox, CNN and MSNBC pass off as "news" on their shows. There's a horrible war raging in the Middle East that has resulted in over 4000 dead Americans. We have an extremely important presidential election coming up in a few months. The housing market is crumbling and taking our economy with it. The pharmaceutical companies have taken control of the FDA and are literally killing people in the name of profits.

So what does Dan Abrams do on a recent show? He "exposes" American Idol for letting some contestants onto the show who formerly had recording contracts! OH MY GOD!

The thing is, first of all, Abrams admits he doesn't watch the show and isn't a fan. He can't pronounce the names of the contestants and is totally clueless as to why so many millions of people enjoy the program so thoroughly. So why the hell is he expressing an opinion? He obviously has done no research and is just trying to create controversy where none really exists. In fact, other organizations jumped on this non-story weeks ago with no real consequence. So why is Abrams so far behind everybody else? Could it be that he has absolutely no journalistic skills whatsoever and shouldn't even be on TV? YES!

So he gets two former Idol contestants - who see no problem with letting on contestants who might have at one time recorded professionally - and some dolt who is obviously there to agree to everything Abrams says. Of course Abrams won't let the former contestants finish anything they try to say because he has to inject his outraged ignorance at every opportunity.

Where he really shows his stupidity, though, is when he suggests that if Mariah Carey was currently "between contracts" even she could compete on the program - and how unfair this would be to the other contestants! The thing is, Carey is well known and famous. The producers and judges - who have absolute control over who makes it into the competition - would not permit her to compete. None of the other contestants are famous. None are well knows by the American public. None have sold millions of records, played to sold-out concerts and appeared on dozens of television shows. They aren't rich. They are talented people who are looking for a break. If Abrams can't see the difference, then he's just a moron. And the fact that he is trying so hard to stir up a non-existent controversy, just proves it. But I guess that's what MSNBC is all about, isn't it?

Maybe Abrams is just jealous that on a bad night, American Idol has something like 120 times the audience of any MSNBC show. Heck, MSNBC can't even generate the same audience as most large-market evening news broadcasts! Abrams' attempt at slamming the show is obviously a desperate attempt at "creating" news where there is none, and it only makes him look idiotic. No one who knows the show - and enjoys it - is going to give Dan Abrams any credence whatsoever, so what's the point? Go stalk Britney or Lindsay, Dan, and keep yourself down on their level where you belong.