I like the “X Idol” shows. I’m not a fanatic, but I watch when I remember and keep track of who I like and don’t like. For the most part it’s fluff: a karaoke contest on steroids, masquerading as a something we should take seriously (but not that seriously).
This season, though, one of the rejects on American Idol has somehow become a phenomenon. A phenomenon that makes me very uncomfortable. They have taken this radically bad singer and seemingly convinced him he has potential, to the guffaws of accepting crowds everywhere.
Emil Guillermo of the SFGate has more: William Hung – Racism, Or Magic?.
