America’s Favorite Loser: Why It’s Time to Take Clay Aiken Seriously
Americas Favorite Loser: Why Its Time to Take Clay Aiken Seriously
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/03/america-s-favorite-loser-why-it-s-time-to-take-clay-aiken-seriously.html
Twelve years and a run for Congress havent helped Clay Aiken shed the ghost of Idol. But as a new documentary on that political bid proves, there can be glory in second place.
Clay Aiken says fuck a lot.
Maybe more than you do. Certainly more than youd expect him to. He says it within the first 20 seconds of The Runner-Up, a four-part documentary premiering on the Esquire network April 7 about his failed bid for Congress. And he says it many, many times after that.
Its startling the first few times you hear it, and then becomes endearing. Clay Aiken, it turns out, is not who you expect him to be.
The former second-place finisher of American Idol and your aunts favorite pop star is now a straight-talking, politically minded policy wonk more interested in using his microphone to shame change-indifferent career politicians and crusade for education reform and veterans rights. And hes at that glorious stage of a celebritys career, the one that not many public personas actually get to.
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gonna' admit it... I love Clay.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)We need more Clay Aiken's in the world, and less Tom Cottons...
tridim
(45,358 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)Sorry, I'm not about to take him seriously.
He made a blatant appeal to the redneck demographic by trashing a black Democratic president. And miscalculated.
Screw him.
msongs
(67,441 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)And certainly an attempt to distance himself from Obama.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/idol-worship/bill-maher-skewers-clay-aiken-745600
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/21/aiken-buck-has-to-stop-with-obama-on-va/
Here he was served a big fat softball "Do you think Obama has been a good president?", and refused to respond.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/magazine/clay-aiken-takes-lessons-from-american-idol-to-the-campaign-trail.html?_r=0
http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/clay-aiken-loses-bid-for-congress-1201348066/
He also said he didn't want Obama to come and campaign for him. In retrospect he probably should have begged the President because he got his ass kicked pretty soundly.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)He was running in a district full of dumbasses and he wanted to win so bad he pretended to be a dumbass himself. I guess the voters weren't as dumb as he thought they were. They knew a fake dumbass when they saw one.
So once he was elected he'd have wanted to keep getting elected, so he would have had to vote like a dumbass.
I have no respect for "Democrats" like this. And they're the only kind we get to run on here in the Appalachia of California.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Unfortunately some purists don't understand that in a redder than red district, you have to run differently.