"American Idol" goes to the White House
"American Idol" goes to the White House
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#0"American Idol" goes to the White House
Posted: 7/21/06 at 9:47pm
Give me a break! Why is he wasting time on this? Who the hell cares about these people?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205020,00.html
Top 10 'American Idol' Finalists Invited to Meet the President
Friday , July 21, 2006
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — President Bush is about to come face-to-face with the one man who has his voting record beat.
Bush plans to host "American Idol" Taylor Hicks and the other Top 10 finalists next Friday in the Oval Office. It will be the first time contestants from the hit television show have been invited to meet the president.
Hicks won the most recent season's contest May 24 after 63 million votes were cast for him in the season finale. That's more than the 59 million that Bush got in 2004, a record in any U.S. presidential election. Although, to be fair, voters can cast more than one ballot on "American Idol."
The White House announced the Idols' upcoming visit Friday as Bush traveled to Colorado for a Republican fundraiser.
The meeting is scheduled for July 28, when the performers were scheduled to be in Washington for their "American Idols Live" show at the Verizon Center. Hicks has a personal connection inside the White House: Susan Whitson, Laura Bush's press secretary, taught him 9th grade English at Hoover High School in Birmingham, Ala.
The finalists will get a tour of the White House before their audience with the president. It was unclear if runner-up Katharine McPhee would be among the group since she missed recent tour stops due to bronchitis and laryngitis.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1re: 'American Idol' goes to the White House
Posted: 7/21/06 at 10:21pm"What's not a priority...is those matters which are of less of a--not that they're not important but--if you're going to have a front burner, which is where you want your priorities, it's like...cooking...there needs to be something sitting on the back one"
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