The Shock Heard Round The World

I'm pretty sick of hearing about one idol contestant's ousting from the show. I mean lets face it, at this point in the contest, any one of them getting booted would be quite shocking for any fan left watching the show. When you are part of the top five, an elimination would be hard to take.

From Wednesday night onward, we have been bombarded with clips and news stories of the ousting. Everyone keeps saying it's gotta be a mistake, they should do a recount. How could this happen? Some people claimed that they heard other contestants voices thanking the caller for their vote. Another caller said they could not get thru.

Let's see, here's how I think it happened. First off, maybe the singer had only enough fans to get them to that certain position in the ranks, the other remaining ones had more fans who called.

As for callers hearing other singer's thank yous, are you sure you dialed the right number? Sometimes in frantic redialing, fingers slip and those numbers are so close together that the mistake might have happened. Or, if you are hearing other voices, it might be a delusional problem. Finally, if you couldn't get thru, that means other people were voting for your favored singer, so there were some votes, just not enough.

You shouldn't feel sorry for these ousted singers. Many of them already have recording offers, quite lucrative ones. Many of the ousted singers have done better than the picked idols.

As far as shocking goes, I am no longer shocked by reality television. I'm just shocked the networks are coming up with new reality shows which are ridiculous--"Unanimous".