Clay Aiken: Criticism of Adam Lambert Taken The Wrong Way. Never Actually Said American Idol Runnerup Was “Too Gay”

May 23, 2009 · Filed Under Kind of Satire · 13 Comments 

Clay Aiken may wish he never opened his mouth or his blog.  Aiken, who finished second to Ruben Studdard in 2003, blasted this season’s runner-up on his blog deriding Lambert’s version of  Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” as “contrived,” “awful,” “slightly frightening,” and added  “Omigod, who dressed that boy?”

Aiken now writes that his comments were just meant to be colorful.

“Yes, I wrote that I thought my ears would bleed when I heard it,” admitted Aiken.  “But I never meant that they actually bled because Adam’s atrocious performance.  I just happen to be shaving when I heard him and cut my ear.  The bleeding was just as much my fault as Adam’s.”

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Gingrich Demands Cowell To Step Down After Adam Lambert Loss

May 21, 2009 · Filed Under Kind of Satire, Media · 5 Comments 
Calling American Idol judge Simon Cowell a “trivial judge, viciously using partisanship for the narrowest of purposes,” Newt Gingrich said that the selection of Kris Allen over Adam Lambert in last night’s American Idol final was reason enough to believe that Cowell “…could no longer be trusted to determine talent.”

“Cowell engaged in a despicable, dishonest and vicious political effort to withhold what he knew about the American Idol’s harsh selection techniques,” said the former House Speaker.

Gingrich said Cowell “lied to the American public” when he all but named Lambert the winner earlier in the competition.

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