So Olivia Newton-John is guest judging this week, and Paula seems to be done with her family obligations.
And the first dog and pony show, complete with added sound effects, is Martik Manoukian. Fuh-RIIIIIIIIK!
Sholandric Stallworth. For some reason, I thought he was going to sing that very well; I think it was his talking voice that deceived me. It was not good.
And then there’s the parade of people in Halloween costumes. Yawn.
I really liked the New York auditions. Can we have another night of those?
Marianna Riccio. Oh good grief. They made it sound like she was going to be great because she has a show biz background and her mom was in show biz, and it was amazingly bad. Oh dear no, not the beg. They don’t realize how awful it is when they beg. And she went and got her mom to talk to the judges.
And now it’s the parade of little Ollie Twists. Please sir, they want some more. Please, Simon, I want a pistol.
Alaina Alexander is absolutely beautiful. Appearance-wise, I say she has “It”. She’s the first one of the day who can hit two consecutive notes on key, but wow, she’s singing a terrible song and getting pitchy, dawg. How do these people pick their audition songs? They’re letting her through based on looks and an okay audition. I think they should have made her sing a second song.
Phuong Pham has a sad story about an unsupportive family who doesn’t want her to do music and doesn’t think she’s pretty enough… and she starts with this awful gyrational dancing jerky… thing. Maybe if she wasn’t doing cartwheels while she sang, her notes wouldn’t all get forced back into her lungs. Simon keeps calling her Pong. He asks how to pronounce it, and she says Phong, and he repeats it back Pong. I don’t know why he asks for pronunciations if he’s then only going to pronounce the names wrong anyway. Maybe it’s time for a hearing aid, Simon. She’s not a video game. Oh no. And when they’re playing her out, they play the awful forced Taylor Hicks AI song! I do prefer the Weird Al version.
Archive of entries posted on January 2007
Obama Announces New Product Endorsement
Get well soon, Louis Farrakhan!
Louis Farrakhan, the 73 year-old leader of the Nation Of Islam, has recently been released from the hospital after a long stay to recuperate from surgery to correct a botched prostate cancer procedure.
However, just to make sure that Minister “Screwy Louie” Farrakhan is around for a long, long time for us to make fun of, we’d like to suggest that he take it easy when returning to his usual duties of inciting hatred, blaming Causacians for self-inflicted minority-on-minority crimes, and pretending to be sane when the network television news cameras are on.
Tired, recoverying public figures usually don’t have a problem appearing sane, since they’re usually only up for a simple smile and a wave. But it’s important for Farrakhan to take it easy and take it slowly on the long road to recovering his flaming mantle of scorn from those he has willed it to.
We suggest that he start with the equivalent of bed rest for invective-slinging polemics: just mildly disliking White people and Jews, in small amounts and infrequently during the day.
Then, when he feels strong enough, he can add in a bit of aggressive rherotic, but not in a sustained and continuous stream of vicious blood-libel and recitation of “Rabbis were dancing on the rooftops after 9/11” conspiracies.
Usually at this stage, I’d suggest a bit of golf. However, that might involve the Minister ranting about the club’s history of discrimination, despite the fact that the club opened its doors sometime in the Sixties as a result of… of… oh, who was that guy that Farrakhan’s former boss had killed again?
Where were we?
Perhaps then, he will be well enough to travel, appearing at Moorehead and TSU to graciously accept Lifetime Achievement Awards, but he’ll need to take it easy and limit his speeches to thanking the audience for their support, but no sustained rhetoric until his doctors clear him for unchecked outbursts of hatred.
At that point, then and only then, would it be safe for him to return to his usual duties.
Now, it’s up to his bowtied minions to make sure that Minister Farrakhan sticks to this progressive schedule, perhaps easing the burden of vehement anti-Semitism and reverse racism on their leader by taking it up on their own.
Good luck, Louie, and get better soon!
Are Muslim Terrorists Behind Global Warming?
According to the upcoming report on global climate change:
the last half-century was probably the hottest in at least the past 1,300 years.
Now, looking back about 1300 years ago, we discover that in 732 A.D.:
Muslim empire reaches its furthest extent.
Now, 1300 years later, the crazed Murderers For Muhammed are on the move again, coincidentally at the same time we’re experiencing record heat waves, droughts, floods, storms, tsunamis, and hurricanes.
I think the connection is obvious.
So remember:
Save the planet.
Kill a terrorist.
Top Ten: Senator Biden’s Other Obama “Compliments”
Sentor Biden recently stated that Obama was “clean.” Many see this as a backhanded compliment. Some, like those of us here at IMAO, are very offended by this remark. I mean, can’t a black man take a shower just like everyone else and not have some liberal say, “Wow, how did you shower without dropping that stolen TV?”
Anyway, Senator Biden has always had good things to say about Obama. In fact, let me share with you…
Senator Biden’s Other Obama Compliments.
10. He reminds me of OJ Simpson, but without the murder accusations.
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9. He has never taken me aside to ‘aks’ me something.
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8. He came over to a dinner party, and afterwards, we still had all our silverware!
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7. It’s so good to see a man marry his baby’s momma.
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6. He really can control his lust for white women.
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5. America needs more diversity in its presidencies. Obama can help us meet that quota.
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4. I like that he enjoys fried chicken, but he isn’t obsessesed with it.
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3. Obama’s wonderful because he’s spent hardly any time in jail.
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2. He went to Harvard and he’s only half white!
And the number one compliment Senator Biden has for Obama…
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Obama Clean!
I know many of you don’t like to shake the hands of black people out of fear of them not being clean, but Senator Joe Biden has declared Obama to be clean. Quoteth Biden on Obama:
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
Seriously, how far is that statement from drunkenly ranting about the Jews to revealing how Biden thinks of minorities. I don’t really care for Obama any, but come on!
UPDATE:
Even Kos couldn’t ignore this one.
Frank Advice: How Rudy Guiliani Can Consolidate His Power
While Rudy Guiliani is a very popular politician for how he cleaned up crime in New York City and stood strong after terrorist attacks, I think Glenn Reynolds is right that the gun issue is going to hurt him in the Republican primaries when people begin to look at Guiliani more critically. The best solution for Rudy is to shoot someone – preferably a terrorist. Then, when someone says, “Hey, I hear Guiliani is anti-gun,” someone else will say, “Whadda you talking about? He just shot someone… right in the face! And then he laughed! That guy likes guns.”
It would be good PR. The main advantage Guiliani has is the perception that, if let loose in Gitmo, he’d personally beat the terrorists to death with a tire iron. Frankly, while I really wouldn’t like voting for someone I disagree with on important social issues, I think what we really need is a president who would beat to death terrorist with a blunt metal object and enjoy it.
Ick!
The Democrats are peeved that the president left off the “ic” in Democratic when describing the newly major party in his SOTU. It’s reprehensible. The president may as well as said he wished all Democrats were killed by way of making them eat their own words. Of course many of the phrases they’d end up eating would annihilate each other and be converted to pure energy when they met their anti-phrase in the stomach. Killing them instantly and simultaneously curing our oil addiction. In fact it may have been a hidden code phrase for just that.
But the swaggering, smirking, nerve of the president! Equating THEM, members of the Democratic party, with DEMOCRATS, members of, of all things, the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Of all people in the work to be compared to! It JUST makes NO sense! What sort of fantasy world does the President live in? The nerve! The gall! The syllable! Truly this monumental gaff can never be forgiven nor should it be forgotten. When dealing with the easily offended, fragile egos of the likes of the Democratic party, it is important to understand that they are used to hearing the ‘ic’.
They NEED to hear the ic. Its the only part of our form of government they have seen fit to keep. Think of it as the only remaining vestige of their etymological (look it up) heritage. Take that away and they are then forced to see themselves as they truly are, filthy, diseased vermin that live in idealogical sewers.
But what I fear they fail to understand is whenever a Republican says something that sounds like they are saying “Democratic”, its more than likely not DemocratIC, they are saying. Instead, he or she is really saying “Democrat, Ick.”
Used in a sentence, “I just stepped in a pile of democrat, ick.” So, when we leave off the ‘ic’ we are simply trying to be polite, before we clean off our shoes.
The next time you see a Democrat instead of referring to their party as the Democrat party and offend them, we should say “ICK!” and leave it at that.
I Hear It’s Quite Popular With The Troops

“No, the line for ‘American Idol: Iraq’ auditions is over there… THIS is the line for getting autographed copies of ‘The Chronicles of Dubya Volume I‘.”
[Whaddya suppose that confused-looking guy at the back thinks the line is for?]
[Hat tip: CENTCOM]
American Idol Six – Birmingham auditions
Ryan just said the dumbest thing. Something like “Birmingham is the home of Bo Bice, Ruben Studdard, and Taylor Hicks. So we thought we’d come see what all the hype is about.” Uhhh. All the hype is about Bo, Ruben, and Taylor. Well, not so much Ruben for me, but you get my picture.
Erica Skye (sp? I didn’t is yelling “Unchained Melody”, make that butchering “Unchained Melody”, which she heard was Simon’s favorite song. Oh good grief. She’s gonna sing “Unchained Melody” by “Leann Rimes”. It’s not by her, but she did cover it, if you must know. You wish they would have been nicer? I wish you would have stopped singing when they asked you to the first time. Or the first ten times.
Katie Bernard. Um, I did not expect her to sound like that after hearing the Mickey Mouse speak. She can sing. I hated it, but I can’t deny that she has a voice. I hope she sings differently, but she can sing. She’s so stinking annoying but in a very cute way. Like she’s the Kellie Pickler who could actually grow on me. The ridiculously annoying girl whom everyone loves for some inexplicable reason, but I could actually learn to like her. Except that she is not tone deaf like KP. Paula puts her through simply because Simon hates it.
Tatiana McConnico is 17 and fabulous. Yay, she’s through.
Diana Walker is singing “Saving All My Love”. Paula and Randy are laughing at her. She’s really not so good, and she sounds like she’s doing belly laughs on some of the notes. It is a little funny, I must say, but the way Randy and Paula are behaving… That’s so RUDE!
Bernard Williams II. “Rock with You”, and thankfully doesn’t sound like Michael Jackson. I’m so over Michael Jackson. Sounds very good, and Simon says 100% yes. Paula says great tone but thinks it’s off-key? What? Her eyes are kinda moving all funky, and her Coca-Cola glass is full of something that looks like water, right?
Margaret Fowler. She offends my senses with her Big Birdy ways. Haha, her name is Fowler. As in fowl. Chicken. Fowl. And she’s fifty. Simon finally gets her confession.
Awww, that Coke commercial was totally cute.
Meet your next dumb blonde bombshell act. Jamie Lynn Ward. Except with an even more sobby awful sympathy-votey story. Sorry, but Frank and I laughed at that over-the-top story. Maybe not so much at the story itself, but the way she said it.
JUDGES: So tell us about yourself.
SYMPATHY VOTE: I live with my Grama. My dad’s paralyzed.
JUDGES: Oh. I’m sorry. How?
SYMPATHY VOTE [matter-of-factly]: Oh. He shot himself. In the neck. [Just a-rockin’ back and forth on her heels, grinnin’.]
JUDGES: Wow. Uh. Why?
SYMPATHY VOTE: Oh. It’s ok. It just tells you to keep trying. No matter what. His wife was cheatin’ on him. That’s my step-mom. He shot her. Then he shot himself. Now he’s paralyzed. And me and my Grama take care of him. Y’all wanna go get some ice cream?
Something like that. As you may have guessed, she’s through to the next round. She actually had a pretty enough voice. And she’s not tone-deaf like last year’s sympathy vote. Randy and Paula said yes, and Simon said he would have said no. Oh, and her accent is even more over the top than Kellie Pickler’s. And yes. She’s from North Carolina. Yippee!
Chris Sligh, my favorite contestant so far. Finally, a contestant with a personality! Why are you here? “I wanna make David Hassellhoff cry.” He references the tear on the Hoff’s cheek in last year’s finale when Taylor won. Hahahahahaha. Love it. Frank and I are instant fans. He has confidence but isn’t pretentious. I could do without his overly shaky vibrato, but I think he won Simon over by proving that Americans have humor(humour) too. Paula’s first seal clap of the the season, for a Seal song! And I’m pretty sure she’s loopy now. And he’s through to Hollywood.
Paula had to go back to Hollywood for a family obligation. She’s related to Betty Ford? So now it’s just Randy and Simon.
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Frank Save Planet!
Hagel: The Rare Nebraskan RINO
Now a Research Tool
Search Inside the Book is now active for Chronicles of Dubya on Amazon.com. How many times is the phrase “Rumsfeld Strangler” used? How often does President Bush vow to murder someone dead? Now you can search and find out! It’s the only source you’ll need for political history from late 2002 until the end of 2003.
Underwear-throwing
I would just like to remind loyal IMAO readers that we have no problem with underwear tossing when it comes to demonstrating your undying devotion to the IMAO weblog and podcast…
Underwear tossing was the deal breaker, a lawsuit brought against renowned opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa contends.
Dame Kiri pulled out of a series of concerts with Australian crooner John Farnham after learning that fans sometimes threw underwear at the pop star, according to testimony in court Monday.
Concert promoter Leading Edge Events is suing the New Zealand-born Te Kanawa and her former manager, Nick Grace, for more than more than $464,000 for alleged breach of contract after the soprano decided not to participate in the 2005 tour.
A lawyer for Leading Edge, Richard Evans, told the New South Wales state Supreme Court that Grace knew Te Kanawa had some concerns about performing with Farnham, one of Australia’s best-known pop singers.
“On many occasions Dame Kiri told Mr. Grace that she was not committed, and had some reservations about co-performing with John Farnham,” Evans said, but those feelings were never relayed to the promoter.
“So the plaintiff was led into error in thinking if someone’s pants ended up on the stage that was not enough to dissuade Dame Kiri from performing with John Farnham,” Evans said.
What you choose to throw at your computer screen or at your podcast listening device is your own business, and we’re all about that personal-choice, liberty decision stuff.
However, if you’re listening to the podcast in your car, we strongly urge you to only throw underwear at the playback device that you’re not already wearing. It’s very dangerous to remove your udnerwear while driving (just ask Harvey).
And if you’re reading the IMAO website in your car, well, for God’s sake please pay attention to the road!
The Breck Girl and The Two Americas
John Edwards was right. There are indeed two Americas. There’s the one you and I live in. With the statue of Liberty, Wal-Marts and utility bills. And then there’s the America that is completely contained within his new 28 THOUSAND square foot house mansion.
Palatial. But don’t you worry about this man of the people. If the one term senator wins the presidency (unlikely), he won’t have to downsize his digs. The White House, at 55,000 sf, is almost twice as big as Castle Edwards.
