I only hope I can express what I'm feeling correctly. What the heck, Here goes.

To make a long story short......I was passing through an area that had a t.v. and American Idol was on. From Seattle if I recall. Now I'm a folke and love music, but what I saw was disturbing. I worked 35 years in a psychiatric hospital and what took place last week to me was border line, if not very close to mental abuse. Some of the contestants were physically and probably mentally handicap. I as an observer cannot confirm what I just said. But it was very, very laughable in a sad sense if you are in tuned with the handicap. True , it could be all a put on and maybe I'm just being to sensitive to what I saw giving the fact that I have seen many things. But to me it was just a little to far taken. About 100 years ago people would make it a weekend plan to go look at the mental insane as a picnic outing and laugh at their antics. It gave me a chill.

Some of the contestants that were interview and ridiculed by the judges to me should not have gotten that far. In plain words "It was a freak show".
Beer (adrien)