American Idol Gives Back

I actually thought, though for a very good cause, that the show bordered on exploitation. They have to show the 12 year old talking about his dead parents and crying, or the scene where they carry the dying woman to their vehicle to be taken to a hospital, only to announce that she died two days later. I know sometimes we need to see that in order to be moved to care, horrible as that sounds, but I can’t help but trust my natural instinct that says it was a self-serving act by a bunch of spoiled celebrities whose greatest satisfaction is not in the good service of humanity but rather in the fulfillment of their own narcissistic fantasies. I don’t know. I guess – how else do you do such a show? I certainly can’t dispute that they raised a tremendous amount of cash in a very short time. But I’m not willing to praise the celebs for their wonderful humanitarianism.