Man, I Wish Someone Would Be Mean to Me…
Rosie O’Donnell rewarded the two American Idol-mocked (and, subsequently, internationally feted) gentlemen, Jonathan Jayne and Kenneth Briggs, with a free trip to Disney World. Which is nice for them.
But let’s have a moment of honesty, here. Two young men went on a show where early contestants are often treated pretty cruelly. They were just as bad as might have been expected and, well, the results were entirely predictable. They were treated in a shoddy manner, Simon confirmed his ability to say and do socially stupid things (seriously, he often seems to be as socially tone deaf as he is a good judge of the kind of pop music that sells by the truck load), and the young men left with a little extra crankiness in their lives.
Since, they have been on late night and early morning shows, they have enlisted agents to help them catch their fifteen minutes of fame as profitably as possible, and now they’ve been given a free trip to Disney World. I’m not going to say that they don’t deserve it--who’s to judge?--but I will say that being publicly humiliated seems to have worked out pretty well for them. Profitably, even.
So, let’s let the “poor, little, helpless things” moment pass. The insults weren’t truly injurious, Jonathan and Kenneth have made the best of it, and, still, neither of them can sing a true note.
‘Nuff said.