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The good, the bad, and the ugly of American Idol.

When all is said and done, it is remarkable how Pastor JR got one side of the coin completely right - that there is a harshness in American Idol which is nasty stuff, and how do we explain it - and CelebrityTalk picked up on something quite remarkable, too, which is the other side of the coin: Who exactly are we watching when we watch American Idol? I have my disagreements with both, but both are onto powerful lines of reasoning that explain a lot more than American Idol merely.