Voice of disagreement, but I **really** think Carly should be the VFTF pick.

With the ammount of info that has been easily leaked, its not a stretch that the excess of plants were planted with the intention of them being expendable- allowing them to handpick their chosen one from a much smaller field- effectivley from a field of 12 or so rather than the full field.

That said- Carly is SOOOO bad, and most know of her plantiness by now. The press would have a fucking field day if such an obvious plant were to win; if she were to win it would only emphasize what a sham the entire show is, and hopefully, put it out of its misery.

A. That pic comparison is hilarious.

B. I imagine that the worst part about that Kristy BJ is that it would take Simon 6 months to get all of the sparkles and sequins off of his schlong.

The Gag-nificent Seven

David “Archduke Turdinand” Archuleta -- If the Archduke were a cartoon character (and I am NOT saying that he is not) he would be a combination of Goofy, Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy, and Cletus Spuckler the slackjawed yokel from the Simpsons. Actually that is giving him too much credit as each of those characters is able to at least hold a semblance of a simple conversation. Turdinand is actually more like a brainless and even brainstemless sea cucumber randomly floating with the currents across the ocean floor. You would like to think to yourself that as it undulates when a light shines on it or seems to go perfectly still if there is some sort of a disturbance in the nearby waters that it is somehow reacting to the stimulus even if it is in an awkward and inappropriate manner but you know in your heart that the cold hard fact of the matter is that any activity or lack of activity it engages in is purely coincidental to whatever is going on in its surrounding environment.

Carly Smithson -- This is the only Mariah Carey song that I had ever heard of --- my wife rolled her eyes incredulously and ridiculed me when I said that I had never heard of “Hero” and then laughed mockingly when I sang what I found out when I Googled it later was the Bonnie Tyler “Holding Out For a Hero” lyrics

I need a hero

I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night

He's gotta be strong

And he's gotta be fast

And he's gotta be fresh from the fight

--- and I only knew “Without You “ because it was a hit by Harry Nilsson and I bought the Nilsson Schmilsson album back in 1971. To this day it is one of the best albums ever and you can only imagine how hard a 13 year old citizenstrange rocked out to “Jump Into the Fire” and “Coconut.” The drum solo in Jump is solid gold is what it is.

Syesha Mercado -- She is actually very pretty but I can’t get past the Bozo-ed out ‘doo.

Brooke White -- I have been racking my brain trying to come up with a good description or analogy for the irritatingly harsh tone of her singing and ..... while I am not really happy with this because it doesn’t really capture it perfectly ..... the best that I can come up with is that she sounds like a blaringly out of tune and somewhat broken foreign car horn. I’ll keep working on it.

Kristy Lee Kook -- I somewhat agree with Mariah. Kristy does give me goosebumps but they are the kind of goosebumps you get when you hear someone screeching their nails on a chalkboard while they eat a light bulb wrapped in tinfoil and rub a balloon on their hair. Weird, wild stuff.

David Cook -- Frankenberry goes Goth per usual. Once again the judges are shocked and awed but unlike me in a good way. I am shocked and awed in the same kind of way I was when I read the story of the lady astronaut driving 900 miles in an adult diaper carrying a black bag containing a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, a BB gun, 3 feet of rubber tubing and several garbage bags and a wig that was found in a plastic bag in a nearby trash bin. David Cook vs. Crazy Astronaut. Six of one and a half dozen of the other. Actually David could use a wig.

Jason Castro -- Brings his usual charisma and talent to the table. If it were not a rigged competition Jason would win.

Maybe Syesha goes. She would have been gone last week if the producers hadn't tried to up the dismally pathetic ratings AI is getting by kicking off the Aussie Douchebag in a "Controversial Shocker."

David Cook is still cocky, imo. His version of always be my baby is not original. It was originally by Survive The Fall.

Here's the video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vy4vhB_bzz0

And not to just dog on the contestants, but when they mentioned Mariah's 5 octave range I have to laugh. Because while she's undeniably got a great voice that high c she supposedly can hit is so god-awful, it hurts my ears. I don't know why people admire that, I really don't. Yuck!