This is funny today because the MSM had been building up a whole Red State v. Blue State meme in terms of the American Idol finale, trying to make it into another jab at Dr. Utopia’s opponents, pretending American has been completely Utopia-ized and that Republicans, conservatives, and moderates don’t exist anymore.  

Many, many, many articles we read leading up to last night’s Idol finale painted Adam Lambert from California as the blue “Dr. Utopia candidate” while Kris Allen from Arkansas was the red “McCain candidate”.  Of course, with the “youth vote” skewing so strongly towards Dr. Utopia, the MSM claimed, and the “youth vote” being so adept at text messaging and using cell phones, Lambert would win in a landslide and further prove that this is now The Golden Age of Hope and Change with few people liking anything at all that’s moderate or conservative. 

Well, Kris Allen whalluped Adam Lambert, because Lambert was just too strange for most of America.  We live in Boystown and see an awful lot of strange day in and day out, and totally saw a win for Allen coming, no matter how much the MSM claimed “because of the current president’s win last year, it is clear his demographics will push Allen to victory”. 

Keep being stupid like that, MSM, so you can fall over yourselves in surprise in 2010 when Democrats receive “stunning” losses in Congress, including Harry Reid and Chris Dodd losing their Senate seats and Pelosi being ousted as Speaker (if she hasn’t already by then). 

We haven’t watched American Idol in years, since Fantasia Barrino, who claimed she was illiterate on the show, released a book she also claimed to have written, about her illiteracy.  That was it for us with this show, because no matter how wonderful of a niche singer ‘Tasia is, we still can’t wrap our head around how someone who can’t read can write books (wait, are we talking about an American Idol contestant or the current Speaker of the House?). 

But we do think it’s fascinating that the media salivated over a Lambert win, and had everything prepped to use that win to take a shot at Republicans, but today the MSM pretends none of that Red State v. Blue State stuff ever happened.  There’s very limited coverage of Allen’s win, and absolutely no mention of the previous political comparisons. 

And that much-vaunted youth vote?  That is the most apocryphal nonsense in a media steeped in ridiculousness. Every four years, we keep hearing about “the youth vote” and 2008 should be the end of this once and for all:  the “youth” didn’t turn out to vote for Dr. Utopia anymore than they turned out to vote for Kerry or Gore.  The supposedly Democrat-loving “youth vote” didn’t drive home a win for Democrat Lambert on American Idol.  If the “youth” are supposedly so Utopia-ized, and the “youth” are supposed to do everything he wants, and he would presumably want Lambert to win, then why did Allen win?

Because people think for themselves and don’t drink Kool-Aid all day.

AND this is just a TV show and not a barometer of anything but the show’s own popularity. 

Boys who wear makeup might end up getting to date the quarterback (happens all the time in Boystown), but they aren’t going to win American Idol (hear that, Charlie Crist, and your presidential exploratory committee?).