>>>Maybe it's my father's sudden death but I have become sentimental. I am still steamed that Crystal Bowersox did not win American Idol the season she was on.
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>>>Obviously I am dating myself with the AI reference. But she was really really good and she was robbed. She deserved to win and I think most people expected she would.
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>>>The backstory was all for her. A girl who grew up with nothing in a left behind small town in the upper Midwest. A town that was really in the past, that had no place for stars. A young lady who could blast the heart right out of your chest. Chris Borrelli of the Chicago Tribune -- who is one of the best there is in the dying newspaper business -- took a trip down there and captured her town in a phrase, as they try to teach you in J-school. The price on the long closed gas station in town was frozen at 31 cents a gallon. That's the kind of town Crystal grew up in.
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>>>Somehow she had enough spirit, spunk, and talent to emerge from that morass. And she was a winner on the air, the kind of person you instantly fall in love with even if you have some cynicism circling in your veins. She was the real deal. She was really expected by everyone to win. The normally flinty Simon Cowell loved her to death. The other judges loved her. I still don't understand how it happened.
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>>>Here are some links. Someone tell me I'm wrong. There was something really squirrelly about that deal.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSEyOa-cmko>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBbEEg9mJzY>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFr7ONasrN8>>>
>>>She knew what she was doing.
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>>Doesn't matter what the judges like or you like. The American vote in the final decides. If you think it was rigged, you need to check your meds....
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>I put that wrong making it sound like I thought it was rigged. It's just so strange that she didn't win. IMO she was head and shoulders over the other contestants.
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>Let's just let this go. You are not going to give me a break, ever, and I just need to accept that. There are only two people here who I believe actively try to take me down and you are one of them.
Paranoia? I'm not out to get you or bring you down. I just can't stand some of the inane things you try to pass off as fact. As far as Idol, its like movie reviewers. If they generally say that a movie stinks, I'll probably enjoy it. I don't pay much attention to them anymore; same for books and music. I, also, like Crystal and her voice. She's got a bright future despite not winning.
