Common Sense

I am disheartened to find that even people who make fake Myspace pages using other people’s pics have more Myspace friends than me. I’m not 100% sure how the whole Myspace thing is supposed to work, since I don’t spend hours out of my day looking for new friends and only a handful have asked me to be their friend.

I’m not sure why I want to have a lot of Myspace friends, either. I just know I have to. Maybe it is peer pressure, or a need to fit in. Whatever, just add me damnit!

Speaking of Myspace, what is this whole American Idol thing? I just don’t get it. Keith Olbermann and I are in agreement on this. From last night’s Countdown:

OLBERMANN:  Indeed I am.  So, the story behind the story, here, suggest that is his exit was, if not prearranged, at least it was sort of foretold last week?

MILITO:  Well, OK, from an anonymous source, this morning, I heard that he has his page on MySpace and last week he posted that his band was signed.  Well, that can happen, so rather than—have him disqualified if he gets to be the “American Idol,” they eliminated him, because she—

Katherine really should have been out, because she forgot the words to Elvis Presley songs, OK?  That‘s unacceptable.  That‘s unacceptable.  And she even knew it.  She had that look of shock on her face, plus Ryan Seacrest, he drags it out.  Anyone who watches “Idol” and you will next season.

OLBERMANN:  No.

MILITO:  I‘m going to get you into it.

OLBERMANN:  No.

MILITO:  No, I will.  That‘s my—that‘s my project now, for a year.

OLBERMANN:  Good luck.

Just Tivo House on Tuesday nights and leave the “Idol” speculation to others, Keith. Trust me.

Milito’s final pitch of the show was one that left me more saddened than anything.

OLBERMANN:  All right, my executive producer is obsessed by the stuff that happens the show, my staff is, my long-time friend and radio partner, Dan Patrick, watches “Idol.”

MILITO:  Everybody is.

OLBERMANN:  People I respect, people I admire, people I tolerate.  What am I missing?  Tell me.  Sell me on this.  Why should I care when I so obviously do not?

MILITO:  Well, we have to get you to care about it only because all of America cares about it.  You know, last week there was something in the newspaper that said there is a part of the country that thinks it‘s just as important to vote on “American Idol” as it is to vote for president.

OLBERMANN:  Yeah.

MILITO:  All right.  Which—whatever.  That‘s a little sad, but true.  I mean, some people believe that.  I guess you‘re missing a little bit of pop culture.  I guess a lot of people live vicariously through Simon Cowell.  I do.  Even though I have a microphone.  And maybe you could a little bit even though you have a camera.

MILITO:  Yeah.

It‘s just—it‘s a fun show and it‘s ageless.

OLBERMANN:  Yeah.

MILITO:  Ageless.

OLBERMANN:  It‘s in 20 million homes just like radon.

Pack it up!. Game over! The terrorists have won if we’re watching crap on TV just because other people do and others consider this more important than voting for president. There’s just no point to continuing the American Experiment if it leads to American Idol.