At any rate, Lambert's phenomenally talented but the show is not just a talent competition no matter how much the producers claim it is- it's also about who's popular for all sorts of reasons. And who cares anyway? It's entertaining, the winner gets the Idol crown and contract while we now see many of the other finalists also getting recording contracts (some of whom are more successful than the winners.)

My birthday is coming up, so I’ll ask for a codebook that will help me read between the lines.

Together, we’ll expose the intolerant regardless of what the actually say.

And the “Christians versus the maybe-gay” last night was also all about singing and talent, too.

Please. Cloaking himself as a disingenuous, wide-eyed “this won't make any difference, will it?” makes for so-so television, but it's not the most complicated line of thought to follow.

Earlier today, I learned that the numbers reported in polls don’t actually mean anything if they aren’t beneficial to the left. OK, new math and all that.

Now, I’m told a fluff piece on Bill O’Reily in which O’Reily, Monica Crowley (a conservative radio host) and some other woman all agree that Adam Lambert’s sexual preferences shouldn’t matter and the that in a singing contest the best singer should win, is somehow when O’Reily “went after” Lambert.

If someone didn’t actually go back and play the tape, they would assume O’Reily laced into the poor gay kid with a homophobic rant and a plea to all good Christians to vote for his competition, regardless of talent.

Of course, it makes for a better story if O’Reily acted as the audience was misled to believe.

Isn’t there anything that liberals could relay accurately that would give them the same feeling of superiority?