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Young Gingrich Supporter Explains Her Political Conversion

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘I don’t think that Barack Obama is really looking out for my interests as he said he would,’ 26-year-old law student tells MTV News. By Becca Frucht Newt Gingrich campaigns in Georgia Photo: Getty Images ATLANTA — When we showed up at the pseudo-ritzy Renaissance Hotel in suburban Atlanta last night for Newt Gingrich’s victory party — looking like a hot mess after 12 hours of Super Tuesday shenanigans at Georgia Tech and Georgia State — we were planning to chat with die-hard young Republicans who’d been reppin’ their party since they were in Reagan-themed diapers. And sure, there were plenty of GOP geeks in full Newt regalia spittin’ campaign lines like whoa — but then I met 26-year-old law student Kimberly Roholt and I learned there’s way more to Gingrich’s young voter base than many people think. That’s because Roholt is a civic convert. “Well, I actually voted for President Obama in the last election but I voted for Newt Gingrich today,” she told me. That is pretty much a full-on political 180. I clearly had to know more, so I asked her to explain her “transformation,” and she quickly pointed out that wasn’t exactly what happened: “I wouldn’t call it a transformation so much as a realization,” Roholt said. “I voted for Barack Obama last time. I was very hopeful. I gave a lot of credence to hope and change. However, I was very young and in the past few years since I’ve graduated, the economy’s difficult, getting jobs is difficult. I’m in law school, I’m living off student loans at the moment until I graduate and I’m very concerned about what the outlook is for me. And I don’t think that Barack Obama is really looking out for my interests as he said he would.” Ironically echoing the same sentiment of broken trust that fueled the liberal Occupy Wall Street movement, Roholt went on to detail how Obama’s failure to keep some of his campaign promises ultimately led to her Democratic defection: “So I switched to Newt Gingrich,” she said. “I think he’s extremely intelligent. While there are some things we differ on in some of our policies, I think he could lead this nation in the right direction, so I voted for him today.” When I pressed her to reveal where she disagreed with her new GOP BFF — asking if the differences were based in economic or social policies — she was understandably a bit reticent to talk cons on a night that was all about Newt’s comeback: “Social, not all of them and not greatly, but there are a few things that we differ socially on. Some of that might be generational, and some of it might be my own ideas,” she said. The question is: Are there more young people like Roholt who are kicking Obama to the curb after four years of recession, unemployment, rising tuition and jacked-up student loan payments? MTV had Super Tuesday covered, with reporters on the scene in Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts! Stick with Power Of 12 throughout the presidential election season for more from the ground.

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Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney Score Big Super Tuesday Wins

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Newt Gingrich, meanwhile, picks up his home state of Georgia. By Gil Kaufman Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney Photo: Getty Images Republican voters looking for clarity out of Super Tuesday instead got more of the same: a split vote that failed to once and for all give them a runaway presumptive GOP presidential candidate. And though he had a good night, Mitt Romney put a good face on a night of wins and near-wins that once again proved he can’t quite close the deal with the party’s conservative base. Instead, Republicans had both the former Massachusetts governor and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum taking a handful of states each, with the vote in crucial swing state Ohio still too close to call at press time. In that race, Santorum led most of the night, but Romney enjoyed a late surge that could change the equation. At press time, Romney was up by nearly 3,000 votes with 88 percent of precincts counted, leading Santorum 38 percent to 37. However, because the Santorum campaign failed to register for a full slate of delegates in the early, poorly funded days of what once looked like a long-shot bid, even if Santorum ends up on top in the Buckeye State, his margin of victory will be slim enough that he will almost certainly get fewer delegates out of Ohio than Romney. And there is also the possibility that it could be so slim as to trigger a recount. The nail-biter went late into the night for the second-biggest prize in the crucial swing state, where 66 delegates were at stake. Not only is Ohio considered a pivotal state in the general election, but no Republican has made it to the White House without carrying the state in the general election. Romney was hoping that the 10-state contest would help him finally solidify his status as the leading GOP presidential candidate. He did pull off a decisive victory in his home state of Massachusetts, as well as a win in Virginia, where his only opponent was Congressman Ron Paul. For the night, Romney was predicted to win 17 delegates in Vermont, 46 in Virginia and 38 in Massachusetts. He also seemed poised to win Idaho, where he was polling at 78 percent at press time with less than a quarter of precincts reporting. Romney added those wins to previous victories in Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire and Maine. “I’m not gonna let you down. … I’m gonna get this nomination,” Romney said while thanking his home-state supporters for giving him a win. “Tonight we’re doing some counting. We’re counting up the delegates for the convention, and it looks good. And we’re counting down the days until November, and that looks even better.” In a victory he said he needed to secure in order to stay in the mix, former Georgia Congressman and House Speaker Newt Gingrich was able to pull off a big win in Georgia, the state with the day’s richest prize. Though he will share the 76-delegate count with either Romney or Santorum (depending on how much of the vote they end up getting), it was likely enough of a victory to keep the Lazarus-like Gingrich in the hunt and to secure him Secret Service protection as of tomorrow. At press time, he had 47 percent of the vote to Romney’s 26 and Santorum’s 24. It looked, however, to be the only bragging point for the still bluster-filled former congressman. “It’s all right. There are lots of bunny rabbits that run through; I’m just the tortoise,” Gingrich told his supporters in Atlanta after ticking off the gallery of opponents who have crowded him out of the picture over the past year only to fall back again as he pushed ever forward. With 92 percent of the vote in at press time, thanks to his social-conservative bona fides, Santorum was the projected winner in Oklahoma, where he took 34 percent of the vote to Romney’s 28, as well as in Tennessee, where he had a 37 percent to 28 percent advantage over Romney. He also appeared to have triumphed in North Dakota, where he held a large lead with nearly 90 percent of the vote in, besting Ron Paul by a 40 percent to 27 percent margin. “This was a big night tonight. Lots of states — we’re gonna win a few, we’re gonna lose a few,” an upbeat Santorum told a crowd in blue-collar Steubenville, Ohio, earlier in the night. “But as it looks right now, we’re gonna get at least a couple of gold medals and a whole passel full of silver medals.” With his four wins, Santorum upped his total number of W’s so far to eight, including previous victories in Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. Results from caucuses in Alaska were not available at press time. Just before 11 p.m. ET, The New York Times predicted that Romney had picked up 112 delegates on Tuesday, with Gingrich well behind at 42, Santorum with 38 and Paul with 10. Added to their previous delegate count, that gave Romney an estimated total of 315, Santorum 130, Gingrich 75 and Paul 35. Super Tuesday boasted a total of 419 delegates total, the biggest haul to date in the 2012 GOP race. But as gaudy as that number is, it represents about one-third of all available delegates. The winning candidate will have to roll up 1,144 to secure the nomination and face off against President Obama in November, and with the winner’s circle still overstuffed, that path seems like it will continue to have a number of significant obstacles. MTV had Super Tuesday covered, with reporters on the scene in Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts! Stick with Power Of 12 throughout the presidential election season for more from the ground. Related Videos Super Tuesday: MTV News Is On The Ground!

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Mitt Romney Grabs Three Early Super Tuesday Wins

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Newt Gingrich easily takes a must-win contest in Georgia, while Rick Santorum lands Tennessee. By Gil Kaufman Mitt Romney Photo: Getty Images After all the hype, bluster, lead changes and fretting about low voter turnout , early exit polls revealed that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney had scored three early victories in Super Tuesday ‘s primary races. Romney, who was hoping that the 10-state contest would help him finally solidify his status as the leading GOP presidential candidate, was on track to score a decisive victory in his home state of Massachusetts, as well as a win in Virginia, where his only opponent was Congressman Ron Paul. In that contest, The New York Times was projecting that Romney would secure 59 percent of the vote to Paul’s 41. Romney’s lead in Vermont, however, was slimmer at 39 percent to Paul’s 27 with less than one-quarter of precincts reporting. In a victory he said he needed to secure in order to stay in the mix, former Georgia Congressman and House Speaker Newt Gingrich was able to pull off a big win in Georgia, the state with the day’s richest prize . Though he will share the 76-delegate count with either Romney or Santorum (depending on how much of the vote they end up getting), it was likely enough of a victory to keep the Lazarus-like Gingrich in the hunt and to secure him Secret Service protection as of tomorrow. At press time, he had 47 percent of the vote to Santorum’s 24 and Romney’s 22. The day’s second-biggest prize was in the crucial swing state of Ohio , where 66 delegates were at stake and the vote was much too close to call at press time. CNN had Romney at 42 percent to Santorum’s 36 with just a fraction of precincts reporting. Not only is Ohio considered a pivotal state in the general election, but no Republican has made it to the White House without carrying the state in the general election. Santorum appeared to be on the path to winning in Oklahoma, and he’s been declared the winner in Tennessee, which looks like it could be his only walk-off victory of the night. Results from caucuses in Alaska, Idaho and North Dakota will not be available until later in the night. Super Tuesday boasted a total of 419 delegates total, the biggest haul to date in the 2012 GOP race. But as gaudy as that number is, it represents about one-third of all available delegates. The winning candidate will have to roll up 1,144 to secure the nomination and face off against President Obama in November, and with the winner’s circle still overstuffed, that path seems like it will continue to have a number of significant obstacles. MTV has Super Tuesday covered, with reporters on the scene in Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts! Check back for up-to-the-minute coverage on all the primaries, and stick with Power Of 12 throughout the presidential election season. Related Videos Super Tuesday: MTV News Is On The Ground!

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Mitt Romney To MTV News: Young Voters Can ‘Save The Future’

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘This election is about their future,’ Romney tells us in Massachusetts. By Jacob Soboroff Mitt Romney speaks in Boston, Massachusetts Photo: MTV News BOSTON — Where, oh where have the young voters gone? That’s what MTV News has been wondering all day as we wander the capital of Massachusetts on Super Tuesday . The city with more than 30 colleges may end up being the city with the lowest voter turnout among young people, and that doesn’t look good for the man who was a popular governor here and will most likely run away with the state’s Super Tuesday contest. Those who did turn out to vote today — at least the small number of them we were able to find voting in the “semi-closed” Republican primary here — seemed to be casting ballots for Texas Congressman Ron Paul, though the final and official numbers will tell the full story. Romney, who after the Michigan and Arizona primaries finally caught up to Representative Paul in the number of total young voters received in the 2012 primary elections, hasn’t been a runaway hit with the college crowd. So we figured there was only one man to ask about low young voter turnout in this state where nearly 1 million voters 18-29 are eligible to cast ballots today: Romney himself, the former governor of this great commonwealth and the man who may very well take on President Barack Obama in November. But first, we had to find him. Romney was scheduled to vote in his home neighborhood of Belmont, Massachusetts, at the Beech Street Center, so we raced from the empty polling places around Harvard University to Romney’s ‘hood. Two choppers circled the parking lot. The traveling press corps exited their bus. And finally, Romney emerged from his Secret Service-driven armored SUV, waved to us, and walked into his polling place. After getting a tip he’d be having a press “avail” — or availability, in reporter-speak — we ran over to the soccer field across from the polling place and got our place set. Romney hopped back into his SUV, was driven around the soccer field, and hopped out with his wife Anne to step up to the microphone. They were standing less than 10 feet away from me. I was freezing in my heavy coat, and Romney was just wearing a suit. After he made brief opening remarks and the first question was asked, I held up my MTV News microphone and blurted out: “Governor, what’s your message to young voters, who are not turning out in very high numbers, particularly here in Massachusetts?” Romney looked me right in the eyes and delivered this message to my fellow young Americans: “We want to get young people from across the country to make sure that they understand that this election is about their future. Right now, we’re seeing a government spending massively more money than we take in, and that money is going to get paid back by our young people. They’re going to pay the interest. They’re going to pay the principle for years. This is a campaign to make sure that we save the future for our young people, and hopefully, as they focus on this election and as it comes closer to the general election, they’ll recognize what’s at stake.” He wants to save the future. There’s a long way to go, but we’ll be watching. MTV has Super Tuesday covered, with reporters on the scene in Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts! Check back for up-to-the-minute coverage on all the primaries, and stick with Power Of 12 throughout the presidential election season. Related Videos Super Tuesday: MTV News Is On The Ground!

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Super Tuesday Isn’t All About Voting At Ohio State

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

But MTV News did find one bachelor pad tuned in to the primary. By Andrew Jenks Andrew Jenks at Ohio State University Photo: MTV News COLUMBUS, Ohio — After spending the morning not finding many young people heading to vote (maybe they were waiting for later), I took to the streets to find out what people were up to on Super Tuesday in the most scrutinized swing state in the 2012 election . “What are you doing today?” I asked young people on the Ohio State University campus on a day when their state was offering up the second-biggest delegate prize of all 10 Super Tuesday contests. But, as an experiment, I didn’t bring up the primary, because I wanted to see if they would. Victoria Aeling: “I plan on painting.” Shane Wiegerig: “Volunteering.” Zach Gray: “Class and going to the bank.” Clearly, some had no plans. Many admitted they had no idea today was the day that could turn the tide in the long, bitter scramble to finally find a solid GOP front-runner to take on President Obama in November. But it wasn’t long before I landed at an all-guys apartment, which they referred to as their “trashed pad.” There was a beat-up pool table, dirty kitchen and holes in the wall. You would think this was strictly “Animal House,” but they were watching CNN and, yes, following Super Tuesday results. I quickly realized there weren’t any generalizations to be made in this crash pad. Joe Doll was a simple guy. He shrugged his shoulders. “If they are a cool guy and they are realistic about things then I’ll vote for them,” he said of GOP hopefuls such as Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. “People don’t see the candidates as serious, so they aren’t taking it serious.” Brian Bode spoke with conviction. “I am voting, but I don’t think it will make a difference, because our Congress is controlled by lobbyists,” he said. He wasn’t happy, and it was easy to tell. If Libertarian pot-stirrer Ron Paul wasn’t in the running, Brian wasn’t planning on voting. Then there was the incredibly outspoken Mark Jepsen. “I went to rivalry class today,” he said. OK, fair enough, I thought. Guy has a hobby, maybe doesn’t care for — wait, he continued … “I registered to vote … not far away from here. Not sure if I am going to do it. … Probably will work out later. … Other than that, not too much. Maybe see a movie, may go out and drink. I think of politics as poli-tricks.” In Ohio, it was clear that everyone I spoke to looks at government in a very different way. I can see that this certainly is a swing state. Some have no idea it’s Super Tuesday, others have been waiting for this day for a long time, and then there are the ones who feel so totally disconnected from the current political discourse that they won’t even bother. Whoever ends up winning the nomination certainly has work cut out for them. MTV has Super Tuesday covered, with reporters on the scene in Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts! Check back for up-to-the-minute coverage on all the primaries, and stick with Power Of 12 throughout the presidential election season. Related Videos Super Tuesday: MTV News Is On The Ground!

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Super Tuesday: Early On, It’s Slow Going At the Polls

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Young voters slowly trickle into polling stations in Boston, Columbus and Atlanta on Tuesday morning. By Andrew Jenks, Jacob Soboroff and Becca Frucht Outside of a Georgia Tech polling station on Super Tuesday Photo: Rya Backer/MTV News BOSTON — It’s cold. It’s early. And almost nobody is voting yet on the day that every pundit is saying could finally shake up this year’s Republican presidential race. 
 Polls opened here at 7 a.m. for Super Tuesday 
 voting and if the initial trickle at the Harbor Point Technology Center — the closest polling place to UMass Boston — is any indication, turnout ain’t looking good in the home state of GOP presidential front runner Mitt Romney. Boston’s NPR station, WBUR, reported this morning that only 300,000 voters are expected to show up today, 200,000 fewer than in the 2008 presidential primary, when both parties were engaged in vigorous races. To put things in perspective: almost one million young voters are eligible to vote in Massachusetts today. In the spacious first floor student lounge here, flags of the world’s countries hung over the room as 18-year-old Amanda Carey admitted she hadn’t voted yet but she would do so for the first time ever after school in a bid to support fiery Congressman Ron Paul. But by 8:30 a.m. only one voter, a 24-year-old Northeastern graduate named Ashley, had shown up to vote. She identified herself as a Libertarian and said she was voting to get President Obama out of office because, “I don’t believe he’s delivered on any promises he made in 2008.” Down the road at UMass Boston, students were trickling into the Campus Center. There wasn’t a polling place there, but there was a cafeteria. And for now that was a way bigger draw this morning. ( Jacob Soboroff ) ATLANTA — We’re at Georgia Tech and the Student Center polling station in the heart of campus is open! But so is the Chick-Fil-A right next door — and so far, it looks like more people are interested in biscuits than ballots. Maybe they’re just powering up for the big day? Michael, a grad student in electrical engineering, was definitely down to exercise his democratic duty. He’s also really passionate about Paul and credits the Libertarian Congressman from Texas with inspiring him to learn more about the economy. Michael believes former President Bush and now President Obama have “crashed the system” and the only one talking about the big changes we need to make as a country is the GOP’s oldest candidate. “It felt good,” he said about voting for a candidate he was passionate about. “I wouldn’t have come out today if Ron Paul wasn’t a candidate.” Some early birds were planning to read up and get their vote on in the November general election, but Mark Teal, a senior in civil engineering, is sitting Tuesday’s vote out because he’s a Democrat, even though he could still cast a ballot in the open primary. He predicts whoever wins the Republican nomination may give Obama a good fight, but is confident the current president will see another term. Brent and Chase, two seniors majoring in electrical engineering, weren’t eligible to vote because they didn’t get absentee ballots in time, but they’re on the Newt Gingrich 
 train and are confident the former House Speaker will win in his home state. Finally, I chatted with Mehran, a 22-year-old Industrial Engineering major, who says it just too early for him to get involved — and he wasn’t even aware that it was Super Tuesday, or that the Republicans were duking it out to take on Obama. ( Becca Frucht ) COLUMBUS — It’s 6:30 a.m. and I am walking around The Ohio State University campus trying to find the polling site. I ask five to six students and nobody knows where it is. I finally find an information booth and they laugh and tell me I have actually been on site the entire time and the station is just 20 yards away. The polling site, in the student union in the center of campus, is pretty quiet around 7:30 a.m., when I was expecting a morning rush as students cast their ballots on their way to the day’s first class. Plenty of young people are going to class/work, but all zoom right past the polling site. Not even a glance. I didn’t see one person under the age of 30 exercise their power to vote in the 90 minutes I hung around in the cold dawn. Finally, I found Andrei Rhakovic, 25, who was in a hurry, but stopped for a minute to speak his mind. “It’s just bulls— overall,” he said. “I voted for Obama four years ago … but these past four years have really shown how f—ed and corrupt the system still is.” If anyone could get us out of this jam he describes, he thinks it’s Paul, but, well, let’s just say Rhakovic doesn’t trust his judgment either. Oftentimes when I speak with young voters it feels like they’ve experienced a “bad breakup” with government and politicians and this year’s election. But for Andrei, he is feeling much more than that. This is a bad — real bad – divorce. When I ask what it would take for him to re-engage all he can say is, “I don’t know. That’s a good question.” It’s the first time he was speechless. ( Andrew Jenks ) MTV has Super Tuesday covered, with reporters on the scene in Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts! Check back for up-to-the-minute coverage on all the primaries, and stick with Power Of 12 throughout the presidential election season.

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‘Dancing With The Stars’ Season 14 Cast Revealed

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Sherri Shepherd, Maria Menounos and tennis great Martina Navratilova join the list of celebrities who will shimmy and shake starting on March 19. By Jocelyn Vena Sherri Shepherd Photo: Ethan Miller/ Getty Images The cast for the 14th season of “Dancing With the Stars” was announced Tuesday, and it features athletes, former child stars, TV hosts and more. With the show set to kick off on March 19, the new crop of celebrity dancers strutted their way onto the “Good Morning America” set in Los Angeles with their sights set on the coveted Mirror Ball trophy. So, what celebrities will be dancing this season and with whom will they be dancing? Here’s the rundown: Jack Wagner The actor is best known for his work on soapy dramas like “General Hospital” and “Melrose Place.” He has also dabbled in music, having recorded several albums, and plays often in celebrity golf tournaments. “I’m going, ‘OK, I’d better get it together fast,’ ” he said when he eyed his competition backstage at “GMA.” He will dance with Anna Trebunskaya. Melissa Gilbert Gilbert is an Emmy-nominated actress best known for her work as Laura Ingalls on “Little House on the Prairie.” She rose to fame in the 1970s as a child star and has appeared in a number of television shows in her decades-long career. When asked if she was still feeling nervous about the gig, she said, “I feel better because the veil of mystery is lifted.” She will be partnered with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Donald Driver Driver is a Super Bowl champion and plays for the Green Bay Packers as a receiver. He is also a children’s book author, whose books center on the character “Quickie.” He will be dancing with Peta Murgatroyd. William Levy Levy is a telenovela star who is frequently dubbed “the Brad Pitt of Mexico.” He recently made headlines playing Jennifer Lopez’s steamy love interest in her “I’m Into You” video. He will be partnered with Cheryl Burke. Sherri Shepherd “The View” host, actress and comedian has appeared on shows like “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “30 Rock.” She also appeared in the film “One for the Money.” She’ll dance with Val Chmerkovskiy. “I’m scared to death!” she laughed. “I need Barbara Walters.” Roshon Fegan The singer and actor currently stars on the Disney channel show “Shake It Up!” He also appeared in the hit movies “Camp Rock” and “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam.” He will be partnered with Chelsie Hightower. Maria Menounos The longtime TV host of shows like “Extra,” Menounos is also a former beauty queen and wrote the best-selling book “The EveryGirl’s Guide to Life.” She will be shaking it with Derek Hough. Jaleel White He is the former star of “Family Matters,” best known for playing the dorky next-door neighbor Steve Urkel. He has since gone on to nab roles in films like “Dreamgirls” and recently starred in Cee Lo Green’s “Cry Baby” video. He will be partnered with Kym Johnson. “The fans have asked me to do this,” he said. “And I’m kind of doing it for my mom too.” Gladys Knight She is the legendary soul singer who rose to fame during Motown’s heyday with her group Gladys Knight and the Pips with iconic songs like “Midnight Train to Georgia,” “Every Beat of My Heart” and “If I Were Your Woman.” She’ll be shimmying with Tristan MacManus. She said she wanted to dance because of the Pips. Gavin DeGraw The singer/songwriter has released hits like “I Don’t Want to Be,” “Follow Through” and “Chariot.” In 2011 he released his album Sweeter, which features the Ryan Tedder-produced “Not Over You.” Tedder accidentally spilled the beans about DeGraw’s casting at the Grammys earlier this month. He’ll be partnered with last season’s champ, Karina Smirnoff. Katherine Jenkins She is an opera star who has sold more than 4 million records. The Welsh-born singer has performed for the British royal family and with opera icons Placido Domingo and Andrea Bocelli. She also sang on the 12th season of “DWTS.” She is partnered with Mark Ballas. Martina Navratilova She is a world-renowned tennis player who has 59 Grand Slam championships under her belt. Additionally, she had nine Wimbledon singles championships. She is partnered with Tony Dovolani. “Tennis is all closed up,” she said of taking her athletic abilities to the ballroom. “It’s a learning experience.”

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‘American Idol’ Reveals Season 11 Top 24

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

But in a twist, it’s announced that one of four eliminated contestants will be welcomed back next week for the first Top 25. By Adam Graham Ryan Seacrest with the top 24 of “American Idol” Photo: Fox “American Idol” revealed its final 10 semifinalists Thursday (February 23), rounding out the Top 24 that will compete for America’s votes during season 11’s live episodes, which begin next week. The remaining 10 contestants were chosen from the pool of 42 sent to Las Vegas to compete for the chance to perform on the live shows. The first 14 , including Heejun Han ( Heejun Han! ), were unveiled during Wednesday’s episode. Thursday’s show picked up with the cliffhanger from Wednesday, regarding the fate of 27-year-old Adam Brock. The teary-eyed Brock made it, of course; “American Idol” can be cruel (see last week’s brutal “Gotcha!” twist), but it’s not cruel enough to let a contestant hang in the balance for a full day and then not let him through. Especially one with a cute little girl at home. The toughest cut Thursday was the one dealt to Jermaine Jones, the 25-year-old baritone-voiced “gentle giant” who took the news very hard, nearly collapsing in tears. Most shocking was the elimination of David Leathers Jr., the would-be heartthrob nicknamed “Mr. Steal Your Girl” who was thought early on to be one of the contestants to beat, despite the fact that the bow-tied 17-year-old looked like he was 12. But in a shocking final twist — “GOTCHA!” — it was revealed at the end of the episode that either Leathers, Jones, Richie Law or Johnny Keyser will return next week to join the show, making it a Top 25. Isn’t “Idol” fun? Here is the full list of the season’s Top 24 contestants:

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Great Moments in Rick Santorum Headline Writing

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

When raging homophobe and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum rolls into Cumming, Georgia, to a campaign stop, the puns are almost too easy. Still, this headline, first posted on Buzzfeed , defies description: For more on Rick Santorum, a real “family values” conservative who has shot to the top tier of the GOP race against all odds, just Google Rick Santorum . It’s eye-opening, the etymology of the former Senator’s name. Well played, Internet … and CUMMING headline writer.

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Terror In Thailand

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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A day following the terror attacks against Israeli missions in India and Georgia, a terrorist in Thailand has suffered the indignity of premature explodation, resulting in him waving goodbye to his legs Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Israellycool Discovery Date : 14/02/2012 14:09 Number of articles : 2

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