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Posted: 11/19/10 at 2:46pm
In her new book Sarah Palin is not very kind to the contestants on "American Idol:"
"Did you ever wonder where the producers of American Idol come up with the seemingly endless supply of people who can’t sing but are deluded enough to get in front of a national television audience and screech out a song anyway?”
No one they have encountered in their lives—from their parents to their teachers to their president—wanted them to feel bad by hearing the truth.”
Simon, however, gets a pass: “Cowell can be a little harsh at times, but he upholds the highest standards and something in us recognizes and responds to that,” she writes. “Unfortunately Cowell is almost alone in his willingness to tell hard truths.”
Without hard-truth tellers like him, she writes, “a growing chorus of voices is trying to convince our kids that hard work isn’t necessary anymore.”
http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/11/19/sarah-palin-american-idol/
"Did you ever wonder where the producers of American Idol come up with the seemingly endless supply of people who can’t sing but are deluded enough to get in front of a national television audience and screech out a song anyway?”
No one they have encountered in their lives—from their parents to their teachers to their president—wanted them to feel bad by hearing the truth.”
Simon, however, gets a pass: “Cowell can be a little harsh at times, but he upholds the highest standards and something in us recognizes and responds to that,” she writes. “Unfortunately Cowell is almost alone in his willingness to tell hard truths.”
Without hard-truth tellers like him, she writes, “a growing chorus of voices is trying to convince our kids that hard work isn’t necessary anymore.”
http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/11/19/sarah-palin-american-idol/
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